Click here for updates on this story St. Louis (KMOV) — A new mayor will take office in the city of St. Louis. Mayor-elect Tishaura Jones will be inaugurated Tuesday at City Hall. At noon, St. Louis will swear in its first Black female mayor. The ceremony is being held in the Rotunda. Due to
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Covid-19 infections have been rising at an alarming rate for eight consecutive weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, as the virus sweeps unabated through hotspots in several corners of the globe. More than 5.2 million new cases were recorded last week — the most in a single week since the pandemic began —
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TUESDAY: Snow will start falling for the morning commute. While slick spots won’t be widespread, take it slow on the roads since those slushy spots could sneak up on you. That snow will transition over to a mix of snow and rain into the afternoon before tapering off this evening. Highs will struggle to warm much
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Gov. Mike Parson’s office said in a news release Tuesday that Parson had accepted Dr. Randall Williams’ resignation. The release was issued as the St. Louis-Post Dispatch reported that Williams and the state’s chief operating officer, Drew Erdmann, were leaving their posts.
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All aboard! There’s a bidding war in the railroad industry. Canadian National is offering to buy Kansas City Southern for $33.7 billion, topping a $25 billion bid from rival Canadian Pacific. Shares of Kansas City Southern surged more than 15% Tuesday on the news. Canadian National fell nearly 7% while Canadian Pacific was down about
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A shooting at a Long Island grocery store Tuesday left one employee dead and two other people wounded, and investigators are looking for the shooter, police said. The shooting happened at a Stop & Shop grocery in the community of West Hempstead, about a 10-mile drive east of the New York City borough of Queens,
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Montana Democrats are suing the state over two bills signed into law Monday that add new restrictions to voting in the Big Sky state. On Monday, Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signed House Bill 176, which ends same-day voter registration, and Senate Bill 169, which revises the accepted IDs which can be used for voting —
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The jury resumed deliberations Tuesday in Derek Chauvin’s trial on charges of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. The jury of five men and seven women began deliberating Monday afternoon at 5 p.m. ET and continued until 9 p.m. ET. Jurors resumed deliberating Tuesday at 9 a.m. ET, according to the Hennepin
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Columbia restaurants will have to pay to seat customers in blocked-off parking spots but supporters hope the new law will still help businesses with more revenue as social distancing requirements continue.
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More than 200 people have died in crashes on Missouri highways this year, already on track to be deadlier than 2020, a year in which deadly crashes already took a big leap.
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Top officials from the Biden administration’s national security team will brief lawmakers from both parties about the decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan on Tuesday, sources told CNN. Secretary of State Tony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley will
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When Los Angeles Lakers great Kobe Bryant is posthumously enshrined in the basketball Hall of Fame next month he’ll be welcomed in by arguably the sport’s greatest player — Michael Jordan. Bryant’s family selected Jordan to present him at the May 15 ceremony at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut, according to a statement from
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Shang-Chi is getting his turn on the big screen, and the superhero’s debut couldn’t come at a better time. The pandemic put the Marvel movies and TV shows on pause last year with nothing to maintain the momentum of 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame” — one of the biggest blockbusters of all time. 2020 had nothing new
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“There is a difference between being informed and getting retraumatized.” That’s what clinical therapist Paul Bashea Williams tells himself and his clients as they struggle with the distressing images that resurfaced during the Derek Chauvin trial. The proceeding churned up a persistent trauma. The frequent replay of George Floyd’s final moments may have left many
Continue Reading A shooting was reported Tuesday at a Stop & Shop grocery in West Hempstead, New York, and no suspect has been apprehended, officials said. Police are canvassing the area in the community on Long Island, and nearby schools are on lockdown and have been told to secure their buildings, Nassau County spokesperson Christine Geed said.
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An 85-year-old woman died in a crash that closed a major interchange in southwest Jefferson City Tuesday morning.
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Bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies have gone increasingly mainstream, but Tuesday’s announcement that Venmo is adding crypto support just put crypto access in the palm of everyone’s hand. Venmo, which is owned by PayPal, said its more than 70 million customers can buy bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin and bitcoin cash for as little as $1. Cryptocurrency can
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Nearly four years after the infamous Fyre Festival flamed out, scammed ticketholders might finally see some restitution for the biggest party that never was. A proposed settlement in federal bankruptcy court would give more than $7,000 apiece back to a few hundred people who, in the spring of 2017, arrived on a private island in
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President Joe Biden said Tuesday he is “praying for the right verdict” in the trial of Derek Chauvin, suggesting there was ample evidence to convict the former Minneapolis police officer accused of murdering George Floyd. “It’s overwhelming, in my view,” Biden said in the Oval Office, where he was meeting with Hispanic lawmakers. “I wouldn’t
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The land at 209 St. James St. and 201 Orr St. is the former site of an Ameren Missouri manufactured gas plant.
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