KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Democratic Party leader in western Missouri has died after contracting COVID-19. The number of coronavirus-related deaths in the state has risen to 12 and the total confirmed cases has now exceeded 900, but health officials were hoping that a brief slowdown in its spread would continue Monday. The death…
Doe Run, MO (AP) — Two people are jailed after the body of a Missouri man was found wrapped in a large piece of carpet. Authorities say the victim has been identified as 28-year-old Anthony D. O’Harver of Farmington. The body was discovered around 7:30 a.m. Friday. St. Francois County deputies responding to a property…
Columbia, MO (AP) University of Missouri System President Mun Choi is taking over as interim chancellor of the Columbia campus. The Board of Curators’ Thursday announcement comes after Chancellor Alexander Cartwright was tapped to be president of the University of Central Florida last week. The Missouri board’s chairwoman says it’s important to have a proven…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri is changing its rules for people seeking unemployment as the state sees a massive increase in claims from people who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus. Federal unemployment data released Thursday showed 40,508 Missourians filed initial unemployment claims for the week ending March 21, compared to 4,016…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) An area researcher believes a hundred-year-old idea could help reduce the severity of Coronavirus symptoms in critically-ill patients. While not intended to be a vaccine or a cure, Dr. Jeffrey Henderson at Washington University’s School of Medicine says the procedure could ease the symptoms. The process involves removing plasma from someone…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson is taking Missouri Governor Mike Parson to task over his handling of the COVID-19 outbreak. St. Louis, which just saw it’s first Coronavirus-related death, is Missouri’s second most-populated city. But, Mayor Lyda Krewson says, “The first round of tests that the state got I understand was…
(KTRS) The Franklin County Health Department confirms a total of 4 positive cases as of today. Commisioner Tim Brinker says the investigations are ongoing. St. Charles County Health Department reports two new COVID-19 cases bringing it’s total up to 8 in the county. The St. Francois County Health Center has confirmed a second case of…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis Community College now has it’s first confirmed case of COVID-19. In an email obtained by KTRS News sent at 10:47 P.M. Monday, the school says that a student who attends the Florissant Valley Campus, notified the the college yesterday. The last time the student was on the campus was…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis City is seeing its first coronavirus -related death. St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson and Dr. Fredrick Echols, director of the St. Louis Health Department made that announcement during an afternoon news conference on Monday at City Hall. The victim was a woman in her thirties, who was just diagnosed…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis-area residents have been ordered to stay indoors to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, which has sickened nearly 130 people in Missouri. The Monday shelter-in-place order in St. Louis took effect a day before such orders were set to be enforced in the Kansas City and St. Joseph…