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WASHINGTON (AP) — As coronavirus cases surge again nationwide, the Supreme Court is barring New York from enforcing certain attendance limits at houses of worship in areas designated as hard hit by the virus. The court’s action late Wednesday won’t have any immediate impact since the two groups that sued as a result of the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A deadly year in St. Louis keeps getting worse, with two more killings adding to the already alarming total. One of the latest victims was shot in July during a robbery at a gas station. Police say 30-year-old Terrance Foster was shot multiple times on July 26. He died Tuesday. Police…
(KTRS) – One man is dead and another wounded following a double shooting in Velda City Tuesday. Around 4:20 p.m., Velda City Police responded to a call of a motor vehicle accident in the 28-hundred block of Lucas and Hunt Road. Upon arriving at the scene, officers found two men suffering from gunshots. Both victims…
LONDON (AP) — The Duchess of Sussex has revealed that she had a miscarriage in July, giving a personal account of the traumatic experience in hope of helping others. Meghan described the miscarriage in an opinion piece in the New York Times on Wednesday, writing that “I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities in St. Louis County say a man fatally beat a 5-year-old boy who was blind and developmentally disabled while the child’s mother was away giving birth. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that investigators were so shaken by the death of Jamarion Delancy that they’re raising money for his funeral and…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government has recognized President-elect Joe Biden as the “apparent winner” of the Nov. 3 election. That formally starts the transition of power after President Donald Trump has spent weeks testing the boundaries of American democracy. The move came after Trump suffered yet more legal and procedural defeats in his seemingly…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Officials are discussing canceling all but the mot urgent medical procedures and building a field hospital as the coronavirus surges in Missouri. Dr. Alex Garza, the chief of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force, said on Friday that projections show the region’s hospitals maxing out intensive care units in a…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A longtime national security aide to President-elect Joe Biden, Antony Blinken, is expected to become Biden’s nominee for secretary of state. Multiple people familiar with the Biden team’s planning tell The Associated Press that Blinken is at the front of his choices to be America’s top diplomat. Blinken served as deputy secretary…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police say two men were killed Thursday in a shooting in north St. Louis. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department says officers were called just after 6 a.m. Thursday to St. Louis’ College Hill neighborhood for reports of a shooting. Arriving officers found two men dead at the scene. Police say…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his allies are taking increasingly frantic steps to subvert the results of the 2020 election, including summoning state legislators to the White House as part of a longshot bid to overturn Joe Biden’s victory. Trump also has personally called local election officials who are trying to rescind their…