CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — New COVID-19 cases in St. Louis County rose more than 40% in a week, pushing Missouri’s largest county back above the federal government’s “high” threshold for transmission. A news release on Monday says St. Louis County re-entered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “high” threshold as of Wednesday. The county’s…
SPANISH LAKE, Mo. (AP) — A 9-year-old boy was injured by a stray bullet while inside a home in the suburbs north of St. Louis. St. Louis County police said officers went to the home near Spanish Lake, Missouri, shortly before 8:30 p.m. Friday and found the boy with a gunshot wound. His injuries were…
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. (AP) — A pedestrian was struck by a vehicle and killed in a St. Louis suburb on Saturday night. St. Louis County police said a man was struck by a vehicle around 8:30 p.m. Saturday in the southern part of the county. Officers who were responding to a report of a…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A law against taxation-by-citation is once again before the Missouri Supreme Court. Judges heard arguments in the case Wednesday. At issue is a 2015 law limiting how much revenue cities can generate from traffic fines and other tickets. It was one of few actions taken by state lawmakers in response…
The St. Louis County prosecutor’s office is investigating an incident caught on cellphone video in which white officers allowed a police dog to repeatedly bite a Black man during an arrest. The video of the arrest Monday in the St. Louis suburb of Woodson Terrace has sparked outrage online and led the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A suburban St. Louis health director says he was called racial slurs and physically assaulted after defending a mask mandate to combat COVID-19. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports St. Louis County Health Director Dr. Faisal Khan in response raised his middle finger during a Tuesday county council meeting. Khan was defending…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The attorney general in Missouri has sued in an effort to halt a mask mandate that took effect Monday in the St. Louis area amid a rise in COVID-19 cases that are burdening a growing number of hospitals around the state. The mandate, one of the first to be reinstated…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The new mask mandate in the city and county of St. Louis that takes effect this week is being criticized by several state and local elected officials. Starting Monday, masks will be mandatory in indoor public places and on public transportation for everyone age 5 or older, even for those who…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal appeals court says a St. Louis traffic ordinance cited in the arrest of a woman during a 2017 march is not unconstitutional. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on Tuesday reversed a lower court ruling in a case arising from the Women’s March in January 2017. Jessica…
LEMAY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a suburban St. Louis man fired at a group of people shooting off fireworks for the Fourth of July, wounding a 9-year-old boy and two women. Twenty-seven-year-old Donald Meek was booked early Monday into the St. Louis County Justice Center on three counts each of second-degree assault and armed…