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Airline delays hint at tough summer for travelers
This summer is already shaping up to be a difficult one for air travelers. Southwest Airlines customers have struggled with thousands…
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Biden celebrates Fourth, touts ongoing fight for freedom from virus
WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling a vaccination “the most patriotic thing you can do,” President Joe Biden mixed the nation’s birthday…
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Missouri COVID cases may ‘double or triple’ in July
During June, as the Delta variant of COVID-19 took hold in Missouri, the seven-day average of new cases doubled. And…
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Capitol, symbol of democracy, off-limits on Independence Day
WASHINGTON (AP) — As it has been for nearly 16 months, longer than any time in the nation’s history, the…
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Missouri considers vaccine incentive program
JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s administration floated the idea of a statewide COVID-19 vaccination incentive program and the…
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Hospital CEO tells anti-vaxers to ‘shut up’
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — One Missouri hospital official is telling anyone making disparaging remarks about the COVID-19 vaccine to “shut…
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Governor urges vaccinations as COVID-19 cases spike, July 4 nears
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Gov. Mike Parsons wants to increase Missouri’s lagging vaccination rate for COVID-19, as the state deals…
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Flags to fly at half-staff to honor St. Louis firefighter
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Gov. Mike Parson has ordered that U.S. and Missouri flags at fire stations statewide fly at…
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Nearly all COVID deaths in U.S. are now among unvaccinated
Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective…
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In pandemic, drug overdose deaths soar among Black Americans
ST. LOUIS (AP) — She screamed and cried, banged on the dashboard, begging her husband to drive faster, faster, faster…
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Unvaccinated Missourians fuel COVID: ‘We will be the canary’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — As the U.S. emerges from the COVID-19 crisis, Missouri is becoming a cautionary tale for…
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Head of St. Louis Pandemic Task Force being deployed
St. LOUIS (AP) — Dr. Alex Garza, the head of the St. Louis area’s pandemic task force, will be deployed…
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Mayor’s office kept out of committee meeting on COVID relief
CITY HALL – An aldermanic committee held on Tuesday the first of several meetings to discuss how to spend $80…
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Missouri leads nation with highest rate of new COVID cases
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Missouri now leads the nation with the highest rate of new COVID-19 infections as vaccinations lag…
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Drop in childhood vaccinations stirs concern about school outbreaks
Routine childhood vaccinations dropped dramatically during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, and although they began rebounding last summer as families…
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For toddlers, pandemic shapes development during formative years
CASTLE POINT, Mo. — Lucretia Wilks, who runs a small day care out of her home in north St. Louis…
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BJC, Washington U. to require vaccinations for employees
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two of the largest employers in the St. Louis area have announced they will require employees…
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Should jails emptied in the pandemic stay that way?
It wasn’t long after Matthew Reed shoplifted a $63 set of sheets from a Target in upstate New York that the…
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Missouri tourist hotspots also heating up COVID counts
Southwestern Missouri’s most popular tourist areas are the epicenter of a COVID-19 outbreak linked to the Delta variant that is…
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After relying on local officials to combat COVID, Parson signs limit on health orders
Gov. Mike Parson’s strategy to contain the spread of COVID-19 was simple: Local officials know best. Statewide mandates emanating from…
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Jones’ stimulus plan will face scrutiny from Board of Aldermen
CITY HALL – Mayor Tishaura Jones’ plan to spend $80 million in federal relief funds may encounter different ideas when…
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Sharp drop in COVID-19 cases brings ‘new phase,’ end to task force briefings
ST. LOUIS – The tone at the last regular news briefing of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force was…
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City is renewing push to vaccinate homebound residents
ST. LOUIS – Some of the city’s most vulnerable residents and their caregivers are again getting extra help to fight…
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Restaurants, caterers put the ‘bon appetit’ in food giveaway
ST. LOUIS – Typically, Andrew Murray is busy serving paying customers for his business, Murray’s Catering. But on Friday, he…
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Deaths from heart disease, diabetes climbed amid COVID-19
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. saw remarkable increases in the death rates for heart disease, diabetes and some other…
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U.S. extends expiration dates for J&J COVID vaccine by 6 weeks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Johnson & Johnson said Thursday that U.S. regulators extended the expiration date on millions of doses of…
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Missouri officials urge vaccinations before Fourth of July
COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to spike in southwestern Missouri, and residents there are being urged to get vaccinated before…
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States rebound from bleak forecasts to pass record budgets
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Just a year ago, the financial future looked bleak for state governments as governors and lawmakers…
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Free beer, doughnuts, million-dollar lottery help curb COVID-19
A growing number of states, cities and companies are offering incentives to encourage people to get vaccinated. And the sweeteners keep getting…
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Tracking of Missouri vaccine equity is hampered by flawed data
Throughout the COVID-19 vaccination effort, public health officials and politicians have insisted that providing shots equitably across racial and ethnic…
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