JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The head of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force says the region is facing a third wave of COVID-19 unless residents get vaccinated and return to wearing masks in public spaces. Dr. Clay Dunagan, BJC HealthCare’s chief clinical officer, said the next wave of the disease could exceed the…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri legislative committee has held a hearing on how race and racism is taught in schools without hearing from any Black Missourians. No Black parents, teachers or scholars testified Monday to the Joint Committee on Education during the invite-only hearing on critical race theory. Critical race theory is a…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Campaign finance records show Missouri’s disgraced former governor, Eric Greitens, has raised roughly $350,000 for his run for U.S. Senate. That means Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt raised the most out of any Missouri Senate candidate during the latest quarter. Schmitt brought in more than $1.3 million since announcing his…
ALTON, Ill. (AP) — Crews are putting the final touches on Southern Illinois University’s new $11.5 million dental clinic. The project was announced in 2019 and work began the following year with the demolition of a building which was no longer in use. The Alton Telegraph reports university officials expect the School of Dental Medicine’s…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The summer surge in COVID-19 cases continued Saturday in Missouri, with the state health department reporting 1,771 newly confirmed cases. Data also showed another uptick in hospitalizations. The state’s COVID-19 dashboard shows 1,424 people hospitalized across the state, up 67 from the previous day. The number of patients in intensive care…
A local prosecutor has filed a total of 63 felony criminal charges against three employees over a July 2018 tourist boat accident on a Missouri lake that killed 17 people. The charges were filed Friday in Stone County against Ride the Ducks Branson captain Kenneth Scott McKee, general manager Charles Baltzell and manager on duty…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois is the first state in the U.S. to prohibit police from lying to juveniles during criminal interrogations. Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the law Thursday. It was one of four pieces of legislation Pritzker signed, he said, to “change the laws that have failed the people they serve.” It prohibits detectives…
(AP) — Missouri’s health department is reporting the highest daily count of new COVID-19 cases since the dead of winter, and the association representing the state’s hospital has warned that the health care system is potentially on the brink of a crisis. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services cited 2,302 newly confirmed cases…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former St. Louis police officer has been sentenced to more than four years in prison in the beating of a Black, undercover officer during a protest in St. Louis. Thirty-four-year-old Randy Hays was sentenced Tuesday to 52 months in prison. He pleaded guilty in November 2019 to using unreasonable and…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson says some officials at Springfield hospitals are trying to find someone to blame for a large increase in COVID-19 cases in the region. Officials at Springfield’s two largest hospitals have been publicly warning the public that the delta variant is causing a sharp increase in COVID-19…