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Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt was part of the group that sued to stop President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for employees of Head Start, a federal pre-K program for low-income families.

Many Kansas City area students will not be required to mask up when they return to class this week despite concerns about the rise in COVID-19 cases.

Local health professionals say Kansas City is a "sitting duck" as cases caused by the delta variant spike and omicron looms.

Parson cites the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and the work of health care professionals in his decision that it's no longer necessary "to continue the state of emergency." The Missouri Hospital Association warns failure to extend the order will hamper providers facing staff shortages.

Faith Andrews-O’Neal, a Raymore native who's in her sophomore year at Columbia University, has gotten a study in contrasts in how New York handles the pandemic differently from Missouri.

The report offers dozens of other recommendations advocating for expanding tracking of demographic information, targeting use of COVID-19 relief funds and incentive programs to diversify workforces.

A recent study found that nearly 1,900 Missourians who died of COVID-19 would have survived 2020 with a statewide mask mandate. But mask requirements have become a political touchstone in Missouri and around the country, with clear partisan dividing lines.

The case was detected in a St. Louis resident who had recently traveled within the United States, according to the St. Louis Department of Health.

O’Neil was one of two Negro Leaguers in the Early Baseball Era elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame Sunday, an election that many say was long overdue.

The first U.S. omicron case was identified Wednesday — about a week after its discovery in South Africa. While there are concerns about the variant’s transmissibility, the number of mutations it possesses make it easier to detect than other strains.