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The Missouri Attorney General’s filing mixes state and local COVID case counts and death counts in comparisons, among other errors.

Data from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that a staggering 55% of frontline health care workers are reporting burnout — or mental and physical exhaustion from chronic workplace stress.

Tuesday's announcement from Mayor Quinton Lucas follows new CDC guidance urging that vaccinated people wear masks indoors in areas with significant COVID-19 spread.

The Board of Police Commissioners approved lifting the residency requirements, which was approved by the Missouri legislature last spring.

Dr. Steven M. Simon admitted that he told a drug representative he would stop selling one of their drugs unless the company hired him for paid speaking engagements.

The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act could provide state agencies with money to protect habitats of endangered and threatened plants and animals.

On Monday night, amid growing concerns about the delta variant of the coronavirus, SMSD became the only public school district in northern Johnson County to require at least some students to wear masks upon returning for in-person learning next month.

Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Backer wrote a letter of support, saying police have “no accountability to our community.”

For the past several years, an effort to establish a municipal ID in the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, has been stuck over a provision that would prohibit local law enforcement from coordinating with immigration authorities. Now it's become an issue in the race for mayor.

Incumbent Mayor David Alvey faces a challenge from four opponents. The top two vote-getters on Aug. 3 will move on to the Nov. 2 general election.

Four candidates are competing to replace longtime mayor Carl Gerlach, who is not running for re-election. The top two vote-getters on Aug. 3 advance to the Nov. 2 general election.

The Natural Resources Defense Council estimates there are at least 330,000 lead pipes funneling tap water into Missouri homes and other buildings — the sixth-highest of any state in the nation.