Indoor mask mandate in city is renewed for at least another month
CITY HALL – People will need to keep those face masks on for a bit longer, as the Board of…
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Chauvin pleads guilty to federal charge in Floyd’s death
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal charge of violating George…
Missouri Supreme Court weighs disclosure of medical marijuana applications
A company denied licenses to grow medical marijuana in Missouri urged the state Supreme Court Tuesday to compel regulators to…
Ameren to shutter Rush Island coal plant by 2024 following Clean Air Act violation
Ameren will shutter a Jefferson County coal plant found in violation of federal clean air laws rather than install what…
Bipartisan commission moving toward plan for new Missouri House districts
A bipartisan commission drawing a map for 163 Missouri House districts that will be used in the coming decade is “more than…
Social Services, local agencies at odds over use of Missouri crime victims’ funding
While lawmakers are considering whether to approve big building projects for college campuses and awaiting more of Gov. Mike Parson’s plans for using an…
Missouri’s largest counties seek to appeal ruling overturning local health orders
St. Louis and Jackson counties requested Monday that they be permitted to intervene and appeal a recent court ruling that…
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,…
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…
Women breaking through to top roles in Black churches
When an opening for bishop arose in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in 2010, Teresa Jefferson-Snorton looked around to see…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Black Democrats say nonpartisan County elections would dilute political power
The cheers and ringing bells were deafening at Wesley Bell’s watch party for the August 2018 Democratic primary election in St. Louis…
Parson proposes $15 minimum pay for state employees
Gov. Mike Parson wants to tap Missouri’s budget surplus to provide immediate raises to state employees and enact a new $15 an…