Busch family to take over operation of Grant’s Farm
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Anheuser-Busch has operated the popular Grant’s Farm attraction in St. Louis County for nearly seven decades,…
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Opioid lawsuit payout plans overlook need for research on smarter use of pain drugs
The opioid crisis has resulted in more than 500,000 overdose deaths over the past two decades. The federal government, states and other…
Advocates urge lawmakers to focus on inequity in education, not critical race theory
Educators, students and advocates urged state lawmakers Monday afternoon to focus on tackling larger issues of inequity across education rather…
Southwest Missouri health system requires employee vaccines
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — One of Missouri’s biggest hospital systems announced Monday that it would require its employees to get…
U.S. appeals court refuses to end CDC’s eviction moratorium
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has said a pause on evictions designed to curb the spread of the…
Who has the power to say students do or don’t have to wear masks?
Legal battles over masks in schools are being fought across the country. Rather than clarifying policy, these legal challenges have…
Cardinal Burke off ventilator, still hospitalized with COVID
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — Former St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke, who was hospitalized after contracting COVID-19, is off a…
Missouri teacher charged in Capitol insurrection
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A teacher at a Christian school in Missouri has been charged for her alleged role in…
Judge bars St. Louis County from enforcing mask mandate
CLAYTON (AP) — A judge issued on Thursday an order barring St. Louis County from enforcing a mask mandate while…
DOJ asks court to block Missouri’s ‘Second Amendment Preservation Act’
A Missouri law prohibiting state and local police from enforcing certain federal gun laws has already undermined drug and weapons investigations, the…
National Park Service renews mask mandate for all visitors
WASHINGTON — The National Park Service reinstated on Monday a mask mandate for all visitors, workers and volunteers at NPS…
Missouri’s COVID death rate among nation’s worst
The summer surge of COVID-19 is causing a spike in deaths in Missouri, including 124 reported Tuesday. The state health…
SNAP boost will put more, healthier food on plates
Thrifty grocery shoppers will have more dollars to spend, thanks to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision to increase the…
Burke, virus skeptic and critic of Pope Francis, is hospitalized with COVID-19
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Cardinal Raymond Burke, one of the Catholic Church’s most outspoken conservatives and a vaccine skeptic, said…
Some area parents are urging schools to require masks
ARNOLD, Mo. (AP) — With the start of the new school year fast approaching, some parents in two suburban St.…
Immunosuppressed people grapple with returning to work
Elizabeth Groenweghe got a kidney transplant 14 years ago. She now takes several medications to prevent her body from rejecting…