St. Louis nightspot’s license suspended over shootings
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A downtown St. Louis nightspot accused of flouting local COVID-19 mask and social distancing rules has…
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COVID-19 vaccines or weekly tests to be mandated for millions of workers
WASHINGTON — More than 80 million employees of private businesses in the U.S. will be required to get vaccinated against…
Drug middlemen fight to limit pharmacies insured patients can use
In the first test of a 2020 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, drug middlemen last week argued that federal law gives…
Spire’s natural gas pipeline is dealt another blow by federal court ruling
The Spire STL Pipeline is running out of options to continue operating its natural gas pipeline near St. Louis after a federal…
Missouri will become the last state to enforce federal mental health parity act
Under a new state law that went into effect late last month, Missouri will become the final state to enforce…
Judge orders no change – for now – in prisoner health care contractor
Work to bring a new contractor for prisoner health care services online in Missouri can continue; but the actual transition…
Jobless Americans will have few options as benefits expire
NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of jobless Americans lost their unemployment benefits on Monday, leaving only a handful of economic…
Pandemic hardship is about to get even worse for millions of out-of-work Americans
Millions of unemployed Americans are set to lose pandemic-related jobless benefits after Labor Day – just as surging cases of…
Black farmers await billions in promised debt relief
BOYDTON, Va. (AP) — There was a time when Black farms prospered. Just two generations out of slavery, by 1910…
Concert venues bank on proof of vaccination, negative COVID tests to woo back fans
MARYLAND HEIGHTS — Fans of the band Wilco could have reasonably interpreted frontman Jeff Tweedy singing “I Am Trying to…
November trial set for lawsuit challenging $1.4 billion Missouri prison health care contract
A trial will be held in early November to determine whether a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Centene will take over the…
Low-income housing tax credits put on accelerated payout plan
The Missouri Housing Development Commission is moving ahead with a plan to accelerate redemption of some low-income housing tax credits despite misgivings…
Calls for rental assistance pour in to state agency as evictions resume
Calls from tenants seeking emergency rental assistance are escalating in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that blocked a…
Purdue opioid settlement could help expose roots of drug crisis
There’s a long history of U.S. courts’ being called upon to fix large-scale public health crises. Lawyers and judges, for…
Judge tosses Missouri AG lawsuit targeting ‘social cost of carbon’ emissions
A federal judge found a group of Republican attorneys general lacked the standing to sue President Joe Biden’s administration for…
Judge conditionally approves Purdue Pharma opioid settlement
A federal bankruptcy judge gave conditional approval Wednesday to a sweeping settlement that will remove the Sackler family from ownership…