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By MARGARET STAFFORD and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Hospital and health officials across Missouri say their hospitals are being overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. Dr. Mark Steele, executive chief clinical officer at University Health, said Wednesday the system’s two hospitals in the Kansas City region are treating 98 patients with COVID-19, an all-time high for the

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers have returned to the Capitol for their annual legislative session. The 2022 session began Wednesday and lasts through mid-May. The Republican-led Legislature’s priority will be to agree on new congressional districts based on 2020 census data. Lawmakers have until March 28 to send

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers are returning to the Capitol for their annual legislative session. The 2022 session begins Wednesday and lasts through mid-May. The Republican-led Legislature’s priority will be to agree on new congressional districts based on 2020 census data. Lawmakers have until March 28 to send new

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The new MLS team in St. Louis has its first head coach. St. Louis City SC has named Bradley Carnell to lead the team when it joins the league in 2023. Carnell is a former defender who played in more than 300 professional games and made three starts in the 2002

SOUTH ROXANA, Ill. (AP) — A southern Illinois police chief says he’s asked state police to investigate an overnight incident in which an officer shot and wounded a man following a disturbance. South Roxana Police Chief Bob Coles tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the man is expected to survive. But he declined Wednesday to

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — A suburban St. Louis deputy is being treated for a broken pelvis and a broken ankle after he was struck early Wednesday by a sport utility vehicle that fled a police stop. The incident happened around 4 a.m. after members of the county’s auto theft task force stopped the SUV.

IRONTON, Mo. (AP) — Iron County officials say a man and woman and two infant children were found dead in a home in southeast Missouri. The cause of death  has not been determined but investigators believe an alternative heating source in the living room of the home could be a factor. The bodies of 33-year-old

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A judge has thrown out most of a lawsuit that seeks refunds of St. Louis city earnings tax payments for people who began working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic starting in early 2020. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that St. Louis Circuit Judge Christopher McGraugh’s ruling on Monday was a victory

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — A deputy with the St. Charles County Sheriff’s Department was seriously injured after being hit early Wednesday morning by a sport utility vehicle that fled a police stop. Authorities say the incident happened around 4 a.m. near Interstate 70 and 5th Street in St. Charles County, after members of the

By MARGARET STAFFORD and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press The University of Missouri says it currently does not plan to delay the start of the spring semester or return to online classes as some other universities have done because of the latest surge in COVID-19 cases. Stephens College, a private women’s college in Columbia, will offer

By SIMMI BUTTAR AP Pro Football Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With the best record in the NFL heading into the last week of the regular season, the Green Bay Packers kept the top spot in the latest AP Pro32 poll. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Los Angeles Rams each moved up two spots to

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri transportation officials say the state recorded more than 1,000 traffic deaths in 2021. It is the first time since 2006 that Missouri had more than 1,000 traffic fatalities. The department says in a news release that 1,004 people died in traffic crashes last year. That’s a 2% increase over

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Suburban St. Louis-area Republican Rep. Justin Hill says he’s resigning from the Missouri House. Hill on Monday announced his last day will be Wednesday, the first day of the 2022 session. Hill says he’s leaving to work as a consultant in Florida. Hill skipped his own inauguration last year to

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs should have left tackle Orlando Brown Jr. on the field when they visit the Broncos on Saturday. Brown hurt his calf muscle during pregame warmups and missed last week’s last-second loss in Cincinnati. But he did just about everything in practice Tuesday and coach Andy Reid

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press A federal lawsuit alleges that a Missouri firearms store and gun range refused to let a Muslim woman use a shooting range unless she removed her hijab. A Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization and an Independence law firm filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Frontier Justice in Lee’s Summit,

In the headline of a Dec. 29 story about a Muslim woman’s lawsuit against a Missouri gun shop, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the store, Frontier Justice, made Rania Barakat remove her hijab. The store wouldn’t let Barakat use its shooting range unless she removed her hijab and she left without doing so.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals have canceled their annual winter warmup promotional event because of Major League Baseball’s lockout. The event, which was scheduled for Jan. 15-17, features players. MLB locked out the players’ association following the expiration of baseball’s collective bargaining agreement on Dec. 1. Lawyers for MLB and the

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri State Highway Patrol says four people — including a child— were killed and three other children were seriously injured in a crash caused by a wrong-way driver near Columbia. The Daily Tribune reports that the crash happened around 7:30 p.m. Monday on Highway 63, when a car traveling south

HOUSTON (AP) — Paulo Nagamura has been hired as coach of Major League Soccer’s Houston Dynamo. The 38-year-old Brazilian was an MLS midfielder from 2005-16. He replaces Tab Ramos, who was fired in November. Nagamura joined Kansas City II’s coaching staff as an assistant in 2017 and was head coach of the second-tier team for