WEBSTER GROVES, Mo. (KTRS) — Webster University is opening up its upcoming free COVID-19 vaccine clinic to the general public. The university is teaming up with the Medicine Shoppe in Affton to provide first doses of the Moderna vaccine from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on April 24th and 29th. The clinic was originally only…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Tishaura Jones has called systemic racism the biggest obstacle to progress in St. Louis, and the city’s new mayor used her inauguration speech on Tuesday to pledge to fight back against all types of discrimination. Jones was sworn in during a coronavirus-mandated socially distanced ceremony at City Hall that included fewer…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s health director has resigned. Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday announced the departure of Department of Health and Senior Services Director Dr. Randall Williams. Williams was appointed to the job in 2017 by Parson’s predecessor, former GOP Gov. Eric Greitens. Williams helped lead the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A state House committee report says a new Missouri lawmaker accused of physically and sexually abusing his children years ago should be ousted. The Missouri House Ethics Committee on Monday released its report on Republican Rep. Rick Roeber. His now-adult children testified to House investigators earlier this year that he sexually…
APE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — A 45-year-old man is charged with a hate crime after a fire destroyed a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint in Cape Girardeau. Cape Girardeau officials charged Christopher Pritchard on Monday. A probable cause statement says church members had reported having trouble with Pritchard, who they said had…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — State health officials say more than 8 million COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Illinois. The state’s Department of Public Health said Sunday that the seven-day average of daily shots is just over 125,000. The news comes as the state on Sunday added 2,666 new confirmed and probable cases of coronavirus…
FRONTENAC, Mo. (AP) — A St. Louis councilman’s car was fired upon in what police are describing as a possible case of road rage. Ernie Trakas, a Republican, said in a tweet that he wasn’t hurt in the Friday afternoon shooting on Interstate 64 in Frontenac. But police said the rear hatch of his vehicle…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man who claimed he fatally shot his St. Louis neighbor to protect the man’s pregnant girlfriend has been charged in the killing. Prosecutors filed the second-degree murder and armed criminal action charge against 63-year-old Dan Charles Rathman on Friday, three weeks after 23-year-old Craig Williams was killed. Rathman was one…
The Patrol reports the boy was returned safely by his father. The Amber Alert has been canceled.
STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. (AP) — Ste. Genevieve police say an officer was seriously burned when his uniform caught on fire after a man threw a Molotov cocktail at him. Police Chief Eric Bennett says the officer was injured early Friday while responding to a disturbance call. He suffered burns on his arms, legs and torso.…