Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said Sunday that his administration is strongly encouraging the cancellation or suspension of public events with more than 50 people following federal health officials’ recommendations that those events be halted in an attempt to slow the ...

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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday declared a state of emergency in response to the spread of the novel coronavirus. The state Department of Health and Senior Services on Saturday announced the state’s fifth case of COVID-19, an individual in ...

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States across the U.S. are allocating hundreds of millions of dollars to respond to the coronavirus, even as the U.S. government prepares to send billions more their way. Many states have built up sizable stockpiles in their “rainy day” funds ...

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Some schools closed early for spring break or announced plans to extend their breaks after Missouri recorded its second case of the novel coronavirus. The new case is a person in their early 20s who had recently traveled to Austria, ...

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Mounting concerns about the coronarvirus spread to state capitols across the country last week, as some lawmakers halted their sessions, shut out the public and scrambled to finish work on essential spending bills to keep government going. Even in states ...

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The 20-something college student didn’t know she had the new coronavirus as she flew home from a study abroad program in Italy, landing at one of the nation’s busiest airports. She took a train to a St. Louis station shared ...

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Two Catholic schools in suburban St. Louis have temporarily closed and some students at a third school have been told to stay home after the father of the first person in Missouri to become ill with the coronavirus attended a ...

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