JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri State Highway Patrol says Missouri recorded more drowning deaths in the first six months of this year than at any time since the patrol began recording drownings in 2008. The patrol says 47 people have drowned since the beginning of the year. Those numbers do not include drownings…
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A nursing home in southern Illinois where a nurse allegedly sexually assaulted an elderly resident last year during the pandemic has been fined more than $200,000 by a state regulatory agency. The fine was announced after 61-year-old Richard P. Kuklinski was arrested on a felony charge of aggravated criminal sexual assault…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Across Missouri, thousands of families face potential eviction with the expiration of the federal moratorium imposed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The freeze that ended Sunday was meant to provide relief to tenants unable to keep up with their rent during the coronavirus pandemic. The Eviction Lab…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis County Police Chief Mary Barton is retiring. Barton said in a resignation letter Friday that she will step down after a leave of absence scheduled to begin Sunday. Barton was hired in April 2020 but has been criticized for her handling of complaints about racial discrimination in the department.…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A suburban St. Louis health director says he was called racial slurs and physically assaulted after defending a mask mandate to combat COVID-19. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports St. Louis County Health Director Dr. Faisal Khan in response raised his middle finger during a Tuesday county council meeting. Khan was defending…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A settlement has been reached to end a lawsuit brought by a civil liberties group over St. Louis police actions taken during downtown protests in 2017. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a consent judgment announced Wednesday would end the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of…
OSAGE BEACH, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri hospital that had no people hospitalized with COVID-19 just two months ago is now dealing with an onslaught of patients. Among them is Daryl Barker, who was passionately against a COVID-19 vaccination. He and several relatives got sick, and Barker ended up in an intensive care unit fighting…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Another disturbance has been reported at the troubled St. Louis downtown city jail. Mayoral spokesman Nick Dunne says corrections officers promptly stopped the disturbance Tuesday at the City Justice Center. Dunne did not provide other details. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports faulty locks on the cells apparently allowed detainees to get…
St. Louis County’s top elected official insists that a mask mandate remains in place, even though the county commission voted to overturn it. St. Louis County Executive Sam Page said Wednesday that the mask order that took effect countywide on Monday is valid, despite the County Council voting 5-2 on Tuesday to end it. Across…
TROY, Mo. (AP) — An eastern Missouri woman already serving a life sentence for one murder has pleaded not guilty to killing her friend a decade ago. Pamela Hupp entered her plea during a brief hearing Tuesday over the 2011 death of Elizabeth “Betsy” Faria. Prosecutors contend Hupp stabbed Faria four days after persuading her…