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We're not seeing many lines around the block at testing sites around the country right now, but the co-founder of Curative says the positivity rate the company is seeing in patients is higher than it was during the first three COVID-19 surges and is approaching omicron levels from December.

Investigators believe a 19-year-old man shot a 15-year-old boy and then turned the gun around and shot himself.

I didn't check the COVID-19 stats at all while I was on vacation, so I figured I should take a look now that I'm back. This time around, I was interested in death rates by vaccination status. Here it is: The CDC provides death rates by vax status through the start of April. The more ...continue reading "COVID-19 Update: Hardly anyone is dying anymore"

Residents living in some majority Black neighborhoods in St. Louis have a 18-year lower life expectancy than residents of majority white neighborhoods less than 10 miles away, a regional health study found. …

The former president continues to insist without evidence that the 2020 election was stolen and, in a fundraising email to supporters on Sunday, again labeled the committee hearings “another partisan witch hunt.”

Jurors found 50-year-old Elizabeth McKeown guilty Friday of first-degree murder in the death of 57-year-old Barbara Foster.

The National Wrestling Alliance is returning to St. Louis this August for a two-day spectacular at the historic Chase Park Plaza Hotel.

Prosecutors described what happened as a “brutal murder."

A new plan for trails and paths is being developed in Edwardsville to help maneuver the city on foot and by bike.

Two men from the St. Louis region were arrested Saturday with 29 other men for allegedly plotting to start a riot at an Idaho gay pride event.

Mitchell Frederick Wagner, 24, of Florissant, is charged with criminal conspiracy; Garret Joseph Garland, 23, of Freeburg, was also arrested.

The bribery charges against three members of the Board of Aldermen prompt call to change the practice of “aldermanic courtesy” and the involvement of city alderman in many of the bureaucratic functions of city government.

(AP) — U.S. Sen. Raphael G. Warnock, senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, is Georgia’s first Black senator. His memoir, “A Way Out of No Way,” will be …

The federal pandemic-era waivers that provided free meals to all students, regardless of economic status, is expiring on June 30.

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Toom1275 with a comment about the USPS seizing “defund the police” facemasks: Oh look, an actual rights violation by an actual common carrier. In second place, it’s a comment from Naughty Autie (that also won second place for Funny), responding to another commenter’s thoughts […]