Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Missouri Gov. Mike Parson defended the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic on Saturday, arguing that the president and vice president "did nothing but almost move mountains for the entire country.""When you think about where we were at 60 days ago -- to…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A $2.19 coronavirus surcharge from a restaurant in Missouri caused a backlash on social media this month.“Scuse me … what? A covid surcharge…?” someone tweeted of a Kiko Japanese Steakhouse & Sushi Lounge patron's receipt showing a “covid 19 surcharge.”The tweet…
By The Associated Press |  Posted: Sat 10:51 AM, Apr 25, 2020 O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri health officials are hoping that a new testing strategy will help quickly identify people infected with the coronavirus at meatpacking and food plants throughout the state. Outbreaks of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, have occurred at several…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…