JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — An attempt to block pay raises for Missouri statewide elected officials has failed. The state House on Thursday came short of getting the two-thirds majority needed to stop the raises. That means state lawmakers, the governor and other statewide elected officers likely will get a pay bump. In Missouri, an…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri legislators and members of their staffs have received initial doses of the coronavirus vaccine that were intended for other state employees, a mistake that one lawmaker called “emblematic” of the problems that have dogged the vaccine rollout. A team of vaccinators was in Jefferson City Wednesday giving shots to…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is touting his handling of the coronavirus pandemic in his State of the State address to lawmakers. The Republican governor had been scheduled to deliver his speech Wednesday in the House chamber, as is tradition. But Parson’s office said he instead will speak in the Senate.…
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(AP) – Authorities say thieves walked past the body of a man for months to take valuable from his home in eastern Missouri. Lincoln County Sheriff Rick Harrell said the man’s skeletal remains were found in mid-December in a detached garage on property he owned in rural Lincoln County. Harrell says at least six people…
(AP) — Experts in all corners of Missouri are seeing room for optimism in the fight against the coronavirus thanks to a decline in new cases, decreasing hospitalizations and other factors. Evidence suggests that the post-holiday spike is over, and things are improving. The seven-day average for new cases reported Tuesday was 27.2% lower than…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) — $30,000 in reward money is available for tips leading to the arrest of the suspect or suspects responsible for the murder of a 7-year-old girl and her father in the Central West End on Sunday. St. Louis Police say Darrion Rankin-Fleming and his daughter Dmyah were fatally shot inside a parked…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Sen. Josh Hawley on Monday filed a “counter-complaint” against seven Senate Democrats who are seeking an ethics investigation of the Missouri Republican. On Thursday, the Democrats asked the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate the actions of Hawley and Republican Sen. Ted Cruz “to fully understand their role” in the Jan. 6…
A 36-year-old Metro East woman has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison in a medical hoax that tricked people who gave her money and other benefits. Sarah Delashmit of Highland pleaded guilty in October to multiple fraud charges after authorities claimed she defrauded nonprofit organizations by pretending to have muscular dystrophy and breast…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Health experts say Missouri isn’t vaccinating people quickly enough to create widespread immunity by this summer. To reach that goal, officials want to inoculate between 70% and 85% of the state’s residents. That means getting between 4.3 million and 5.2 million people immunized. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…