Shutdown looms for businesses ignoring COVID-19 rules
CITY HALL – Businesses that flout public health orders during the COVID-19 pandemic are going to be shut down, city…
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County announces new restrictions as cases soar
Missouri’s most populous county is limiting crowd sizes, ordering bars to close early and getting tough on businesses as the…
U.S. going in wrong direction, Americans say in poll
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the November election 100 days away, more Americans say the country is heading in the wrong…
COVID-19 joins heat, humidity in making city a hot spot
ST. LOUIS – Blazing heat, humidity and COVID-19 are making the St. Louis area a hot spot. Even the White…
Retailers that resisted face masks get on board
NEW YORK (AP) — When the parent of Southern grocery chain Winn-Dixie said that it wasn’t going to require customers…
White House, GOP at odds over jobless aid
WASHINGTON (AP) — Negotiations over a new COVID-19 rescue bill were in flux Friday after the White House floated cutting an unemployment…
Batter Up! Baseball, soundtrack of summer, is back – sort of
Herb Vincent closes his eyes and drifts back a half-century, to his boyhood bedroom in North Little Rock, Ark. He’s…
Jobless claims rise as cutoff of extra $600 benefit nears
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation got another dose of bad economic news Thursday as the number of laid-off workers seeking…
Parson clarifies comments on schoolchildren, virus
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Gov. Mike Parson is clarifying comments he made in a radio interview in which he said…
Biden offers plan for jobs, children, elderly
NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden offered on Tuesday a massive plan to generate 3 million jobs and improve…
Clubs, bars that flout public safety mandates draw rebuke
CITY HALL – Young adults are the powerhouse now driving the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and their hangouts –…
Catholic schools here plan in-person classes
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — The Archdiocese of St. Louis announced on Monday plans to resume in-person classes next month even…
Virus rebounds around world; deaths top 600,000
BERLIN (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic has found fresh legs around the world, as confirmed deaths pass 600,000 and countries…
Schools make flexible reopening plans for fall
MANCHESTER, Mo. (AP) — Administrators in the Parkway school district in suburban St. Louis spent the summer break crafting a…
MLS delays St. Louis, other expansions due to pandemic
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Soccer has delayed the first seasons of expansion teams in St. Louis as well…
Branson mask debate wades into Nazis, conspiracy theories
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The tourist town of Branson postponed a vote on whether to impose a mask ordinance…