JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Judges could issue lifelong restraining orders that also cover pets under a bill passed by the Missouri Legislature. Senators on Monday voted 31-0 to send the bill to Gov. Mike Parson. Currently, orders of protection are limited to at most one year. After that, victims have to go back to…
St. Louis City and St. Louis County are relaxing COVID restrictions. St. Louis County Executive Sam Page and St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones announced this morning that beginning today, restaurants and bars are allowed to return to one-hundred percent capacity under a new health order called “Reopen STL.” CDC guidelines concerning social distancing and mask…
WEBSTER GROVES, Mo. (AP) — An embattled Missouri residential treatment program for troubled youth that started in 1832 as a home for orphans from the cholera epidemic has closed its doors as the federal government moves away from funding such facilities. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the child welfare and behavioral health organization Great…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A judge has denied a defense request to return to a grand jury the case against a St. Louis couple accused of waving guns at racial injustice protesters last year. A St. Louis grand jury indicted Mark and Patricia McCloskey in October on felony charges of unlawful use of a weapon…
ST. PETERS, Mo. (AP) — Authorities in eastern Missouri say a man suspected of shooting and wounding a police officer has been killed by sheriff’s deputies. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a St. Peters officer made a traffic stop just outside a St. Peters shopping center about 5:30 p.m. Thursday and the driver shot…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis couple accused of waving guns at racial injustice protesters last summer are due back in court. A judge on Friday will consider whether to send the case back to a grand jury to decide if they should have been indicted in the first place. A St. Louis grand…
No injuries reported as firefighter respond to explosions and a fire at Manor Chemical company plant in the 6900 block of Heege in Affton. People who live within half a mile of the fire are being evacuated. Fire officials say that could number up to 3000 people. Affton School District students are being kept in…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Senate has voted against paying for Medicaid expansion. Senators on Wednesday voted 20-14 against a proposal to add the funding to the state budget. The vote locks in the House’s decision not to pay for Medicaid expansion. Missouri voters last year voted to expand who is eligible for government…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri House committee unanimously endorsed a proposal to increase the state’s gasoline tax. The House Transportation Committee’s vote on Monday sends the measure to the full House, where some Republicans oppose raising taxes. If it’s approved, Missouri’s gasoline tax would increase 12.5 cents over five years, resulting in a…
(AP) — The number of Missourians who have been infected with the coronavirus has now topped the half-million mark. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services on Tuesday cited 524 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to 500,071. The state also reported 37 new deaths, though…