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Blunt is up for re-election in 2022. Voters first sent him to the U.S. Senate in 2011, and he was re-elected in 2016.

NewsSportsEntertainmentLifestyleOpinionUSA TODAYObituariesE-EditionLegals COVID liability advances in Missouri Senate, expands to shield religious orgs After nearly 15 hours of debate and negotiations behind the scenes, a bill was given initial approval in the Senate’s first filibuster of the session By Tessa Weinberg The Missouri Independent Churches would be immune from most lawsuits alleging COVID was contracted on their premises after an exemption was carved out for religious organization...

As an all-girls school, math and computer science teacher Abby McGillicuddy knew this was needed. "I’ve got all girls, we’ll take it. We always hear how coding is not for women in the workplace and many are now trying to recruit women coders, so we’ve really strived to give those opportunities to our girls," McGillicuddy said.  LaunchCode wants to continue helping more students with its free curriculum.  Right now, its looking for more schools to join.  "We’re just trying to get more...

The St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force and St. Louis County are collaborating with SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to as many as 4,000 area first responders. Under the agreement, first responders in the St. Louis County area – including St. Louis County police and fire personnel as well as county-based federal law enforcement employees – started receiving vaccinations at the hospital Monday morning. The partnership could vaccinate up to 4,...

More than 8,000 students at 34 Lutheran schools in the St. Louis area celebrated National Lutheran Schools Week, Jan. 24-30, 2021. The schools, members of the St. Louis-based Lutheran Elementary School Association, will mark the week with service projects, special activities, tours and open house events. Several schools will also celebrate their 100th day of school during the week. The theme of this year’s celebration is  Sent to Serve, based on Matthew 20:28: “The Son of Man came not t...

Patricia Fairris of Lemay enjoys playing Scratchers tickets and usually sticks to the $1 and $2 games. While shopping at her local Dierbergs, located at 2516 Lemay Ferry Road in South County, Fairris’ eyes were drawn to the Missouri Lottery’s $3 “Jingle Bell Tripler” Scratchers ticket. Fairris changed her routine and purchased a couple of the $3 tickets, uncovering a $50,003 top prize in the process. “Believe it or not, I have never bought a $3 ticket,” Fairris shared. “I can’t ...

Meeting ID:  Password: 461448 The board will review a conditional-use permit for Missouri American Water to replace a water tower on Sappington Barracks Road. The call for the special meeting comes after the aldermen rejected the CUP for Missouri American Water 4-3 at the petition’s second reading at the Jan. 12 regular meeting. Ward 1 Aldermen Ann McMunn and Joe Stewart, Ward 2 Alderman Casey Wong and Ward 3 Alderman Cathy Friedmann voted against the measure, while Ward 2 Alderman Steve Be...

The Missouri House of Representatives is not meeting this week because of an outbreak of COVID-19 in the Capitol Building, Republican leaders announced Thursday evening. Without giving details, House Speaker Rob Vescovo, R-Arnold, Speaker Pro Tem John Wiemann, R-O’Fallon, and Majority Floor Leader Dean Plocher, R-St. Louis, issued a statement about the decision. The Senate Republican caucus, which has 24 of the Senate’s 34 members, met Friday morning on a conference call and decided to hol...

St. Louis County is still under a stay-at-home advisory in 2021, a continuation of an order issued by County Executive Sam Page in mid-November in response to the ongoing surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations. In his first meeting of the year with reporters Monday, Page focused on the end of the indoor dining ban that was part of the first “Safer at Home” stay-at-home advisory issued in November, at first for four weeks and then extended to the end of the year. But with the latest order publis...

Byrnes Mill Police Chief Frank T. Selvaggio has been named the Missouri Police Chief of the Year by the Missouri Police Chiefs Association. Selvaggio, 62, of Affton said he received the Donald “Red” Loehr Chief of the Year Award on Dec. 8 in Jefferson City at the organization’s annual conference. “I was pretty overwhelmed by it,” said Selvaggio, who was named chief of the Byrnes Mill Police Department in October 2018. He said he can’t take all the credit for the aw...