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Health
Logistics center will help abortion seekers get to Illinois
With abortion access increasingly restricted across much of the South and Midwest, two Illinois clinics near St. Louis announced Friday…
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Coronavirus
Navy medical team heads to St. Louis to support COVID care
A Navy team of medical specialists is scheduled to arrive in the St. Louis region next week to help a…
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Business
Army Corps of Engineers to spend $732M on Mississippi River lock upgrade
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will spend $732 million to expand a lock…
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Politics
Missouri redistricting plan could upend primary election
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — When the Missouri House gave lukewarm approval Wednesday to a plan for redrawing the state’s eight…
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Coronavirus
COVID task force issues recommendations for small businesses
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — A task force set up to consider how to help Missouri’s small businesses recover from the…
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Coronavirus
Surge in virus hospitalizations makes transfers difficult
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The current surge in virus cases in Missouri driven by the spread of the highly contagious…
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Coronavirus
COVID hits Missouri nursing homes again; staff hard hit
ST. LOUIS (AP) — COVID-19 infections are rising again in Missouri nursing homes as the highly contagious Omicron variant surges.…
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Education
State education board keeps 36-hour virtual learning rule
NORMANDY, Mo. (AP) — School districts struggling with staff absences because of COVID-19 are facing difficult decisions about how to…
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Coronavirus
Stressed hospitals are forced to hunt for ventilators
(AP) — Doctors in Missouri and Kansas are hunting down ventilators and running out of monoclonal antibodies as COVID-19 patient…
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Crime
Nearly 60 police chiefs back suit against Missouri gun law
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Nearly 60 Missouri police chiefs are supporting a lawsuit that raises concerns about a new state…
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Business
Centene settles with N.H. for $21.1 million over pharmacy services costs
(AP) — St. Louis-based Centene Corp. has reached a $21.1 million settlement with New Hampshire over the inaccurate reporting of…
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Coronavirus
Missouri virus hospitalizations set yet more records as cases surge
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The number of people being treated for COVID-19 across Missouri continues to set records as virus…
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News
Groundbreaking actor Sidney Poitier dies at 94
NEW YORK (AP) — Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, and…
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Coronavirus
More than 100 St. Louis County jail inmates have COVID
CLAYTON (AP) — The rapid spread of COVID-19 has infected more than 100 detainees at one of Missouri’s largest county…
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Politics
‘Hatred in the eyes’: How racist rage animated Jan. 6 riots
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Cori Bush is no stranger to protests. She spent years marching the streets of St. Louis…
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Business
Judge throws out most of St. Louis earnings tax lawsuit
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A judge has thrown out most of a lawsuit that seeks refunds of St. Louis city…
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Health
Jake’s mice: Searching for answers to the puzzle of autism
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jake Litvag leaned in for a closer look as a lab mouse scurried around an enclosure,…
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Politics
Jan. 6 committee prepares to go public as findings mount
WASHINGTON (AP) — They’ve interviewed more than 300 witnesses, collected tens of thousands of documents and traveled around the country…
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Politics
Capitol rioters’ tears, remorse don’t spare them from jail
WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida business owner Robert Palmer cheered on the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 before he joined…
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Coronavirus
CDC mulling COVID test requirement for asymptomatic, Fauci says
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the COVID-19 Omicron variant surges across the United States, top federal health officials are looking to…
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News
Amtrak cuts Missouri service to 1 daily round trip
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Amtrak service in Missouri has been reduced to one round trip starting Monday as federal and…
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Crime
Four people wounded by stray New Year’s gunfire in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police received 736 reports of gunshots across the city as people celebrated the New…
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News
Decades of Dept. of Defense efforts fail to stamp out bias, extremism
In February, with the images of the violent insurrection in Washington still fresh in the minds of Americans, newly confirmed Defense Secretary…
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Religion
Pope New Year’s message: Pandemic is hard, but focus on the good
VATICAN CITY (AP) — In his New Year’s wishes to the world, Pope Francis encouraged people Saturday to focus on…
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Coronavirus
Parson declares end to COVID emergency as Missouri cases soar to record levels
On the day Missouri surpassed 1 million COVID-19 cases and recorded the highest single-day tally of infections for the pandemic,…
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Politics
Missouri weighs longer hunting seasons for some fur-bearers
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Missouri conservation officials are considering a plan to extend the hunting season for species such as…
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Coronavirus
600 cars in line at area COVID-19 testing site
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The latest COVID-19 surge in Missouri has residents scrambling to get tested, but having difficulty finding…
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Coronavirus
Surging COVID-19 cases bring a 2020 feel to the end of 2021
(AP) — U.S. officials have intensified calls for unvaccinated Americans to get inoculated in the face of the new Omicron…
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Coronavirus
Move to shorten COVID-19 isolation stirs confusion, doubt
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials’ decision to shorten the recommended COVID-19 isolation and quarantine period from 10 days to five is…
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News
Wreck of last U.S. slave ship is mostly intact on Gulf coast
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Researchers studying the wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship, buried in mud on the Alabama coast…
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