KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s top health official insists a statewide mandate for masks and social distancing doesn’t make sense, even though the federal government has designated the state a “red zone” for new coronavirus cases. Dr. Randall Williams, director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, told KCUR-FM radio for a…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A ceremony was held Sunday to mark the sixth anniversary of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. The ceremony was held outside of Canfield Green Apartments – the site where Michael Brown was fatally shot during a police confrontation. St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell recently announced…
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s police commissioner says more than 100 people were arrested following a night of looting and unrest that left 13 officers injured and caused damage in the city’s upscale Magnificent Mile shopping district and other parts of the city. Police Superintendent David Brown says it “was not an organized protest” but instead…
CASTLE POINT, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis County police are investigating two shooting deaths in the north part of the county that happened about 12 hours apart. The first was reported around 1:30 p.m. Thursday, when police were called to an area around the St. Louis suburb of Castle Point for a shooting. Arriving officers…
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump has ordered a sweeping but unspecified ban on dealings with the Chinese owners of the consumer apps TikTok and WeChat, although it remains unclear if he has the legal authority to actually ban the apps from the U.S. The order is the Trump administration’s latest salvo at China,…
(AP) New York’s attorney general is suing the National Rifle Association, seeking to put the powerful gun advocacy organization out of business over allegations that high-ranking executives diverted millions of dollars for personal benefit. The lawsuit filed Thursday by Attorney General Letitia James followed an 18-month investigation into the NRA, which is a nonprofit group…
(AP) Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden will not travel to Milwaukee to accept his party’s White House nomination because of concerns over the coronavirus. Party officials confirmed the change in plans on Wednesday. The move is the latest example of the pandemic’s sweeping effects on the 2020 presidential election and the latest blow to traditional…
St. Louis (AP) Cori Bush, a onetime homeless woman who led protests following a white police officer’s fatal shooting of a Black 18-year-old in Ferguson, has ousted longtime Rep. William Lacy Clay in Missouri’s Democratic primary. Bush’s victory came in a rematch of 2018, when she failed to capitalize on a national Democratic wave that…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri voters are deciding whether to expand Medicaid health care coverage to thousands more low-income adults. Tuesday’s primary election ballot includes a proposal to expand Medicaid alongside party candidates for governor, U.S. Congress and other state and local offices. Voting is occurring as Missouri has seen a surge in confirmed coronavirus…
BEIRUT (AP) — Explosions rocked Beirut, inflicting injuries and damaging buildings in a large radius around the city;s port. The afternoon blast shook several parts of the capital and thick smoke billowed from the city center. Residents reported windows blown out and a ceilings falling. The explosion appeared to be centered around the port and…