Residents can get in-person help to apply for Direct Cash Assistance
CITY HALL – City residents can get in-person help to apply for $500 cash assistance, at an event on Saturday,…
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Days after tornadoes, Missouri officials assessing damage
DEFIANCE, Mo. (AP) — Missouri officials are continuing to assess the damage caused by tornadoes that killed at least two…
Aldermen rebuke choice of Homer G. Phillips name for new medical facility
CITY HALL – The Board of Aldermen has taken a stand against the potential use of the name of the…
Judge sets March trial date for Greitens investigator Tisaby
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A judge has set a March trial date for William Tisaby, the private investigator who led…
Long call wait times balk Missourians of federal food assistance
Just as the school year — and with it, free school lunches — was ending last spring, Erin Bay learned…
Pandemic stress weighs heavily on Gen Z, poll shows
Isolation. Anxiety. Uncertainty. The stresses of the coronavirus pandemic have taken a toll on Americans of all ages, but a new poll…
Companies rethink return-to-office plans amid Omicron virus cases
(AP) — Companies of all sizes are rethinking their plans to send workers back to the office as the new Omicron…
Racism plagues military academies despite diversity gains
Eight years after Geoffrey Easterling graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he remains astonished by the Confederate…
Missouri woman convicted of killing snake breeder husband
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A woman shot and killed her husband at his snake-breeding business in Missouri, a jury decided…
County ends mask rule; school districts resist pressure from attorney general
St. Louis County abandoned on Thursday its effort to maintain a mask mandate as Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s crusade to…
St. Louis-based Medicaid giant Centene settles fraud allegations with Kansas for $27.6M
St. Louis-based Centene, the nation’s largest Medicaid managed care provider, has settled fraud allegations with a fifth state, Kansas Attorney…
Congress drops attempt to make women register for draft after GOP outcry
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan provision in an annual defense measure that would have required all young Americans to register for…
COVID-19 hospitalizations up dramatically in Missouri
(AP) — COVID-19 cases are rising sharply again across Missouri, prompting renewed concerns about overcrowding at hospitals and long waits…
Women would sign up for the military draft under defense bill in Congress
WASHINGTON — As the Senate works to finalize a major annual defense measure, there is a bipartisan push to include…
State lawmakers aim to provide a year of health care for new mothers
Faced with over a year’s delay from the state social services department on implementing extended mental health care for new…
Missouri Attorney General tells schools, health departments to end COVID orders
Attorney General Eric Schmitt instructed school districts and local public health departments to immediately stop enforcing health orders a judge…