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Business
Appeals court rejects lawsuit challenging Missouri marijuana license caps
Missouri’s constitution gave state regulators the authority to limit the number of licenses issued to grow and sell medical marijuana,…
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Coronavirus
Missouri plotting official ‘end’ to COVID-19 pandemic as soon as March, document says
The state of Missouri is planning an official end to the COVID-19 pandemic as a public health crisis and will transition…
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News
Governor’s plan for $2.8 billion from American Rescue Plan Act gets first review from lawmakers
There was skepticism about new temporary state employees and the cost of developing the Rock Island railroad corridor into a new…
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Science
December 2021 was the warmest on record in Missouri — by a long shot
Missouri logged its warmest average December temperatures on record last month, according to data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
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Coronavirus
COVID cases set new monthly record as Omicron variant spreads through Missouri
Missouri has reported more cases of COVID-19 in the first 12 days of January than any full month of the…
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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
Reporting change adds almost 2,800 COVID-19 deaths to Missouri total
Missouri’s COVID-19 death toll increased by more than 20 percent Thursday afternoon, to more than 15,000 fatalities. The 2,771 deaths…
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Coronavirus
COVID-19 cases rising rapidly in Missouri
For much of October, there were so few new COVID-19 cases in Knox County, Health Director Lori Moots said she…
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Coronavirus
Missouri tops 11,000 reported COVID deaths, doubling total from 2020
The number of Missouri deaths from COVID-19 reported since Jan. 1 has exceeded the number reported during 2020. As of…
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Health
Missouri lawmakers may consider copying Texas abortion law
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature could soon be considering legislation similar to a new Texas law that bans most…
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Coronavirus
Missouri ICUs filling as Delta variant wave hits northeast, southeast regions
New cases from the Delta variant wave that has killed more than 1,150 Missourians since June 1 have plateaued but hospital ICUs continue…
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Coronavirus
Lawmakers seek accounting of emergency purchasing authority given to Missouri agencies
Missouri lawmakers pressed for more details Wednesday on the unprecedented decision by state officials to suspend some procurement rules at…
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Crime
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…
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Coronavirus
Missouri COVID death toll ignores antigen-tested cases as official tally tops 10,000
Missouri officially passed the grim milestone of 10,000 COVID-19 deaths Thursday when the Department of Health and Senior Services added…
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Coronavirus
Missouri tops 10,000 deaths from COVID-19 during pandemic
(AP) — The death toll from COVID-19 in Missouri has topped 10,000, according to the state health department’s coronavirus dashboard…
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Science
To fight invasive carp, Missouri scientists track the babies
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — For decades, four invasive species of carp have been devouring plants, gorging on plankton and endangering…
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Health
As Missouri joins nation in monitoring opioid prescriptions, experts worry
Kathi Arbini said she felt elated when Missouri finally caught up to the 49 other states and approved a statewide prescription…
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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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Coronavirus
Parson announces vaccine incentive lottery with $10,000 prizes
In a bid to increase vaccination rates to combat the Delta variant’s growing spread, Gov. Mike Parson announced Wednesday an…
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Coronavirus
‘The surge is coming,’ Springfield mayor warns other Missouri cities
With hospitals swamped and hundreds of cases daily from a Delta variant surge of infection, Springfield is a warning of what is…
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Coronavirus
July 4 weekend sparks virus cases, ventilator shortage in Missouri
(AP) — The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients jumped by nearly 27% over the Fourth of July weekend in a…
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Coronavirus
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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Coronavirus
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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Police Accountability
O’Fallon, Mo., police chief resigns over new Missouri gun law
O’FALLON, MO. (AP) — The police chief of O’Fallon has resigned over concerns about a new Missouri law that would…
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News
Fewer 2020 traffic stops in Missouri, but racial disparity remains
(AP) — Traffic stops and arrests resulting from those stops declined sharply in Missouri last year due in large part…
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Health
Free testing aims to curb sexually transmitted infections ignored as COVID-19 spread
As the case counts of the COVID-19 coronavirus began to tick up across Missouri in March 2020, providers who offer…
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News
Homeless crisis looms with federal eviction moratorium on shaky legal ground
At least once a day, housing advocate Melissa Pashia speaks to someone who is living in a car. Once the situation…
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News
State to end all federal pandemic-related unemployment benefits
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri will end participation in all federal pandemic-related jobless insurance programs as of June 13. Gov. Mike Parson, a…
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Coronavirus
Missouri in no rush to spend $2.7B of flexible pandemic aid
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Missouri will get nearly $2.7 billion of flexible federal aid under a coronavirus relief law, but…
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News
Push to put benefit limits on Missouri unemployment debt goes down in House
A bill to forgive mistakenly paid unemployment benefit from 2020 will include a waiver for debts to the state but won’t include…
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