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Education
Attorney General is preparing new round of school mask lawsuits
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is preparing for a new round of lawsuits challenging school mask rules if districts reinstate orders in…
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Politics
Schmitt drops lawsuits against Missouri schools, St. Louis
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Attorney General Eric Schmitt has dismissed most of the more than 40 lawsuits he filed against…
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Education
Schools left ‘scrambling’ after Missouri treasurer tied bond deals to AG’s COVID demands
It was just after 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 10, 2021, when the forms arrived from the state treasurer’s office.…
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Crime
Feud between Missouri, Justice Department complicates joint program
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A crime-fighting partnership between Missouri and the Justice Department is caught in the middle of a…
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Coronavirus
Decision nixing local COVID orders hampering health agencies’ response to other diseases
Two weeks after a Cole County judge stripped local health agencies of their ability to issue orders to mitigate the…
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Crime
Missouri gun law poses ‘clear and substantial threat,’ U.S. officials say
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri law forbidding local police from enforcing federal gun laws is hampering efforts to…
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Coronavirus
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…
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Coronavirus
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…
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Coronavirus
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…
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Coronavirus
Judge rejects Missouri attorney general’s challenge to school mask mandates
Face masks will stay on for students and teachers in districts requiring them, a Boone County judge ruled Tuesday, handing…
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Coronavirus
Missouri GOP vow to push back against Biden’s announced vaccine mandate
Missouri Republicans assailed President Joe Biden’s push to require employees of private businesses to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo…
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Crime
Roadblocks facing Strickland’s claim of innocence are nothing new for Missouri
Kevin Strickland was hopeful Thursday was going to be his first step towards freedom after 40 years in prison. A…
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Crime
Longtime Missouri inmate will wait weeks for new court date
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who has been in prison for more than 40 years for a…
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Business
Judge tosses Missouri AG lawsuit targeting ‘social cost of carbon’ emissions
A federal judge found a group of Republican attorneys general lacked the standing to sue President Joe Biden’s administration for…
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Business
Missouri judge refuses to reinstate federal jobless benefits
A Missouri judge refused on Tuesday to reinstate federal unemployment benefits that were cut in June when Gov. Mike Parson…
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Crime
Missouri prosecutor files motion to free longtime inmate
LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri prosecutor has filed a motion asking a judge to exonerate a man who has…
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Crime
Judge denies request to block Missouri law invalidating certain federal gun laws
A Cole County judge refused on Friday to block a new state law that declares certain federal gun laws invalid and…
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Education
Schools to continue mask rules despite legal challenge from Missouri Attorney General
The schools in Gov. Mike Parson’s hometown will continue to require students, teachers and staff to wear masks indoors despite…
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Education
Missouri attorney general seeks court order blocking school mask mandates
Mandates that require children, staff and faculty to wear masks in school to prevent spread of COVID-19 are next on…
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Coronavirus
Missouri COVID cases, hospitalizations rise as officials warn of infections in children
Missouri’s average of daily COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations have reached levels not seen since January, with health officials warning that…
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Coronavirus
Judge issues restraining order blocking St. Louis County mask mandate
St. Louis County is prohibited from enforcing a mask mandate after a judge’s order issued Tuesday afternoon. After hearing arguments earlier in…
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Coronavirus
Lawsuit over St. Louis mask rules sent back to state court
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge ruled on Sunday that state courts should handle a lawsuit to overturn St. Louis-area…
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Coronavirus
Schmitt’s lawsuit targeting mask mandates is riddled with data errors
In his lawsuit challenging mask mandates in St. Louis and St. Louis County, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt questioned the effectiveness of…
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Opinion
Jaco: The worst is yet to come as St. Louis hospitals fill with COVID and stupidity
With the St. Louis region facing a new wave of COVID infections that will probably rival the worst of the…
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Coronavirus
Missouri AG sues over St. Louis area mask mandate
The attorney general in Missouri has sued in an effort to halt a mask mandate that took effect Monday in…
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Politics
Missouri AG asks U.S. Supreme Court to hear abortion restrictions
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to review an appeals court decision blocking a…
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Politics
Lawmakers can refuse to fund Medicaid expansion, attorney general says
Missouri lawmakers were not obligated to fund Medicaid expansion, and the courts cannot force the state to pay the medical bills…
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Politics
Schmitt drops lawsuit against St. Louis County over pandemic response
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has dropped his lawsuit challenging St. Louis County’s COVID-19 pandemic response.…
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Politics
McCloskey, who waved rifle at protesters, is running for Senate
Mark McCloskey, the St. Louis personal injury lawyer who gained national attention after he and his wife waved guns at…
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Politics
Missouri sues over tax cut penalties in federal COVID-19 relief bill
Missouri became on Monday the first state to challenge a punitive provision of the $1.9 billion federal COVID-19 relief bill signed early…
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