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ATLANTA (AP) — Average daily new coronavirus cases in the United States have dipped below 100,000 in recent days for the first time in months. But experts cautioned Sunday that infections remain high and precautions to slow the spread must remain in place. The seven-day rolling average of new infections was well above 200,000 for…
WENTZVILLE, Mo. (AP) — A Wentzville police officer shot and wounded a 21-year-old man after a car chase late Saturday. The shooting happened after a state trooper tried to stop a vehicle heading south on Highway 61 around 11:45 p.m. Saturday. Wentzville Police said an officer who responded noticed a second car that appeared to…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has acquitted Donald Trump in his impeachment trial. The rare Saturday session came barely one month since the deadly Jan. 6 siege at the U.S. Capitol. The vote was 57-43, with seven Republicans joining all 50 Democrats. Prosecutors said Trump was the inciter in chief whose rally cry to fight…
TRENTON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a St. Louis-area psychiatrist and his son were killed when their plane crashed earlier this week in northern Missouri. The crash killed 82-year-old Philip Joseph LeFevre III, of Glendale, and 47-year-old Philip Joseph LeFevre IV, of Sunset Hills. The younger LeFevre was the president and CEO of Lending Partners.…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration is unveiling plans for an estimated 25,000 asylum-seekers waiting in Mexico for their next immigration court hearings to be allowed into the United States while their cases proceed. The admissions will start slowly at three unidentified border crossings on Feb. 19. The move is a major step toward…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) — St. Louis County Police are looking two persons of interest in the theft of a funeral home van with a body inside. Police spokesman Sgt. Benjamin Granda says the van, was stolen yesterday from a Quik Trip in north St. Louis County. The first person of interest is a white male…
LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri health officials say they are optimistic efforts to provide COVID-19 vaccines will expand soon, both in terms of increased vaccine availability and the number of approved vaccinators. Dr. Randall Williams, head of the state health department, said Wednesday Missouri expects to receive a significant amount of a new Johnson &…
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats opened their first day of arguments in former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial with searing footage of the U.S. Capitol riot. Other highlights included prosecutors painting Trump as an “inciter in chief” who systematically riled up his supporters and falsely convinced them the election had been stolen, culminating in the…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Larry Flynt, who turned his raunchy Hustler magazine into an empire while fighting numerous First Amendment court battles, has died. He was 78. His attorney says Flynt died Wednesday in Los Angeles. Flynt’s career began with Ohio strip clubs but in 1974 he founded Hustler, an unashamedly crude and hard-core skin…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Opening arguments are set to begin in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. An emotional first day ended Tuesday with the Senate voting to hear the case for convicting the former president of inciting the riot at the U.S. Capitol. On Wednesday, House Democrats prosecuting the case and the former president’s attorneys will lay…