The governor and founder of the program stood on a stage together to celebrate more than 200 graduating seniors less than two months before Parson vetoed the funding.
The hit-and-run was just one among hundreds of emergency calls to police and firefighters across the St. Louis region for fireworks-incidents, fires, medical calls, shootings and car crashes.
A history professor tried to school Missouri's senator about the context tied to a fake Patrick Henry quote. Hawley responded about triggering βthe libs.β
The response from city officials followed an outcry from people at Saturday's scene who said they called 911 over and over as Coen was slipping away, but could not get through to a dispatcher.
Some of the scheduled speakers are facing multiple felony charges in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack; one was recently sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Katherine Coen, 33, sat in her car as a storm descended on St. Louis. She had groceries with her, her father said, and was probably waiting out the rain.
Bost will be opposed by Darren Bailey, who received an assist from the Democratic Governors Association when he ran in the 2022 gubernatorial GOP primary.