Tag Archives: Missouri

Law & Crime reports: The Missouri woman accused in a fatal drunk driving crash has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for entering the Capitol building on Jan. 6. Emily Hernandez, 22, was seen in pictures and on video grinning widely while holding a fragment of a sign appearing to identify the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) on Jan. …

The Missouri Independent reports: Mask mandates saved lives and prevented COVID-19 infections in Missouri’s biggest cities during the worst part of the delta variant wave, an analysis by the state Department of Health and Senior Services shows. But the analysis, conducted at the request of Gov. Mike Parson’s office in early November, was never made public and was only obtained …

The St. Louis Dispatch reports: An advocacy group is alleging former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens improperly tapped his state campaign fund to help pay for his current bid for the U.S. Senate. In a complaint filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission, Washington-based Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit focused on campaign finance laws and ethics, said the Republican spent more …

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports: The Social Security numbers of school teachers, administrators and counselors across Missouri were vulnerable to public exposure due to flaws on a website maintained by the state’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The Post-Dispatch discovered the vulnerability in a web application that allowed the public to search teacher certifications and credentials. The department removed …

The Associated Press reports: Nurses and hundreds of other staff members will soon begin wearing panic buttons at a Missouri hospital where assaults on workers tripled after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cox Medical Center Branson is using grant money to add buttons to identification badges worn by up to 400 employees who work in the emergency room and …

NPR reports: Missouri’s chief disciplinary counsel is asking the Missouri Supreme Court to suspend the law licenses of Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the couple who waved guns at Black Lives Matter protesters in St. Louis last year. In filings with the court, the chief disciplinary counsel, Alan D. Pratzel, cited the couple’s guilty pleas to misdemeanors stemming from the incident. …

The Kansas City Star reports: Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday didn’t rule out a special legislative session to challenge President Joe Biden’s plan to mandate COVID-19 vaccination or testing for major portions of the American workforce. Parson told The Star in a brief interview that Missouri will fight the White House initiative on “multiple fronts.” He offered few details …

Kansas City’s ABC News affiliate reports: The Pleasant Hill Board of Education voted unanimously to require masks in its schools. Following the announcement of the board’s decision, several people were throwing fits and hitting one another in the parking lot. Pleasant Hill sheriff’s deputies got involved and handcuffed one individual. The unrest led to more police officers arriving on scene. …

From the editorial board of the Kansas City Star: The decision to remove a display of Kansas City’s gay and lesbian history from the Missouri State Capitol is outrageous, potentially illegal, and yet another embarrassment for a state with a history of intolerance. It appears a state legislative staffer was somehow offended by the exhibit, raised a stink on social …

The Springfield News-Leader reports: Livestreaming on Facebook, a man known online as the “vaccine police” harassed pharmacists at a Walmart in Springfield — saying the workers would be “executed” for administering the COVID-19 vaccine. Invited from Alabama to last week’s Mercy hospital rally, Christopher Key is an entrepreneur who came to prominence after convincing Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis to use …

St. Louis’s Fox News affiliate reports: A grandfather’s fight with COVID featured on a hospital’s Facebook page is going viral. Mercy Hospital says Mike Prinzi was reluctant to get the vaccine because of what he now calls, “misinformation.” He ended up fighting for his life at the hospital’s intensive care unit. “We had doubts in the beginning, with all the …

The Springfield News-Leader reports: Despite a packed and rowdy crowd opposed to the measure, the Springfield city council Monday night passed a nonbinding resolution encouraging vaccination against COVID-19. The proposal was purely symbolic, but opposition to the measure was fierce over the five-hour council meeting — and included misinformation, jeers, and allusions to the Holocaust. But Councilwoman Angela Romine does …

St. Louis’s CBS News affiliate reports: A new policy required by a St. Louis-area transportation company is garnering strong opinions both within the community and online. Charlie Bullington owns Yo Transportation services, a business he started 16 years ago. Recently, he has made it a requirement that he will only transport passengers who aren’t wearing masks and have not gotten …

Politico reports: GOP Rep. Billy Long jumped into Missouri’s Senate race Tuesday evening, casting himself as a staunch ally of Donald Trump in a primary contest that is also doubling as a competition to prove loyalty to the former president. Long, a former auctioneer and radio show host who was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2010, made …

St. Louis’s Fox News affiliate reports: Missouri Governor Mike Parson has pardoned a pair of St. Louis attorneys who drew international fame and infamy for waving guns at protesters outside their Central West End home last year. The pardons were issued on Friday, July 30, but announced Tuesday. Mark and Patricia McCloskey pleaded guilty to misdemeanors for the June 2020 …

The Kansas City Star reports: Macon County Coroner Brian Hayes handles the death certificates for this cattle, corn and soybean region of 15,000 in north-central Missouri, near Kirksville — roughly 130 to 140 deaths each year. That includes certifying the deaths of the few dozen residents who have succumbed to the coronavirus. And in some cases, it has meant excluding …

CNN reports: A person who attended a St. Louis County Council meeting last week where officials voted to overturn a mask mandate has tested positive for Covid-19, officials said Saturday. “Out of an abundance of caution it is recommended that anyone who attended the council meeting quarantine for the next nine days and monitor their symptoms,” the St. Louis health …

The Associated Press reports: Daryl Barker was passionately against a COVID-19 vaccination, and so were his relatives. Then 10 of them got sick and Barker, at just 31, ended up in a Missouri intensive care unit fighting for his life. “I was strongly against getting the vaccine,” Barker said through labored breathing. “Just because we’re a strong conservative family.” He …

From St. Louis County’s health director Faisal Khan: My time before the Council began with a dog-whistle question from Councilman Tim Fitch, who said he wanted to emphasize for the assembled crowd that I was not from this country. As you know — and as Mr. Fitch surely knew since he was the crowd’s leader — the great majority of …

From the St. Louis County Department of Health: As COVID-19 hospitalizations rise and the Delta variant spreads, the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County will require masks to be worn in indoor public places and on public transportation beginning Monday. The new rule will require everyone age five and over, including those who are vaccinated, to wear a …