COVID-related attacks prompt Missouri hospital to issue panic buttons
Nurses and hundreds of other staff members will soon begin wearing panic buttons at a Missouri hospital where assaults on…
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Missouri abortion law leads to court battle over referendums
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — A Missouri law seeking to ban most abortions after eight weeks of pregnancy led to a…
Pfizer vaccine for children ages 5-11 may be available in November
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer has submitted research to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the effectiveness of its COVID-19…
Judge rejects Missouri attorney general’s challenge to school mask mandates
Face masks will stay on for students and teachers in districts requiring them, a Boone County judge ruled Tuesday, handing…
Guns, pandemic, police use of force helped fuel 2020 homicide spike
Homicides in the U.S. spiked by almost 30% in 2020. That was the main takeaway from figures released on Sept. 27, 2021, by…
Missouri agency must pay almost $200,000 for Sunshine Law violations
More than 10 years ago, a Cole County judge decided that “knowing” violations of the Missouri Sunshine Law by a state agency…
Missouri HBCUs use federal relief funds to clear pandemic-related student debt
Harris-Stowe State University junior De’Ketra Tatum remembers listening to a lecture in February 2020 about what could happen if the…
State Supreme Court to rule on abortion initiative maneuver
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday about whether Secretary of State Jay…
Who will get a booster shot? A Q-and-A about what the feds are saying
WASHINGTON — Booster shots soon will begin rolling out to some Americans who received the two-shot vaccine made by Pfizer—after…
Orphaned, infected, in crisis: How the pandemic is traumatizing children
WASHINGTON — The coronavirus pandemic has brought heartbreaking consequences for millions of U.S. children, even as most avoided serious illness themselves,…
Many hurdles for families with food challenges, poll shows
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Americans struggling to feed their families over the past pandemic year say they have had difficulty…
Missouri AG’s push to sue every school with mask mandate heads to court next week
Orders requiring school children to wear masks in class will be tested in court next week, when a Boone County…
Opinion: ‘Mild’ breakthrough case of COVID-19 can be unpleasant surprise
The test results that hot day in early August shouldn’t have surprised me — all the symptoms were there. A…
COVID-19 vaccine works in children ages 5-11, Pfizer reports
Pfizer said Monday that its COVID-19 vaccine works for children ages 5 to 11 and that it will seek U.S.…
COVID has killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 flu
COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000. The U.S.…
U.S. Supreme Court sets Dec. 1 oral arguments in major abortion case
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Dec. 1 in a case that threatens to overturn decades…