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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.

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

Kara Eaker and Leanne Wong arrived in Japan as alternates on the Women's Gymnastics team, prepared to compete if one of their teammates suffered an injury or became ill. Instead, they were quarantined after Eaker tested positive for the coronavirus.

Local hospitals are turning away transfer patients as they face a dwindling number of beds and staffing shortages.

Statewide initiatives to ramp up vaccinations are mounting as Missouri sees its highest rate of new daily COVID-19 cases since January.

Kendra Ross had been forced to work without pay for businesses run by The United Nation of Islam from the time she was 11 years old. A judge awarded her nearly $8 million.

In a hearing that only included witnesses on one side of the debate, lawmakers attempted to determine if concepts from a controversial legal framework have made their way into public school curriculum.

The staffing disputes at Menorah and Research are among many contentious battles between the nurses union and HCA, the health care conglomerate that owns the hospitals.

Kara Eaker tested positive at a training camp near Tokyo. Last month at the Olympic Trials, Eaker said she had been vaccinated. Her teammate, Leanne Wong, who is also from the Kansas City area is in quarantine.

In the three years since serious NCAA allegations surfaced against the University of Kansas basketball program, the Athletics Department has spent more than $3.5 million on four law firms.