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The University of Missouri will require students, faculty and staff to wear masks in classrooms when on-campus classes resume in the fall.
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Applicants discuss pandemic, inequality in judicial interviews
Two topics dominating recent headlines — the COVID-19 pandemic and racial inequality — were given a spotlight in a series of interviews held to select a new associate circuit judge in Jackson County.
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Read More »July bar-takers raise concerns about in-person exam
Some test-takers say they are growing increasingly anxious about attending the upcoming July bar exam in person in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Read More »16th Circuit sets dates for resuming trials
The Jackson County Circuit Court has announced plans to resume jury trials in late September and early October barring a “significant elevation” of COVID-19 infections.
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Read More »Missouri cities consider requiring face masks as virus cases surge
As coronavirus cases increase across Missouri, city officials are wrestling with how to slow that rise when many residents are resistant to more government restrictions.
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Read More »State: Local officials to make school decisions amid virus
Most decisions about what the upcoming school year will look like in Missouri's elementary and secondary schools will be made by local officials, the head of the state's education department said.
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Read More »COVID-19 cases prompt motion for Nash’s release
A spike in COVID-19 cases in a prison has prompted the attorneys of Donald “Doc” Nash to seek his immediate release as he awaits a ruling in his post-conviction case.
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Read More »Audit: US sent $1.4B in virus relief payments to dead people
Nearly 1.1 million coronavirus relief payments totaling some $1.4 billion went to dead people, a government watchdog reported Thursday.
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Read More »Some states break virus records as U.S. caseload grows anew
Coronavirus hospitalizations and caseloads hit new highs in over a half-dozen states as signs of the virus' resurgence mounted, with newly confirmed infections nationwide back near their peak level of two months ago.
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Read More »Fauci hopeful for a vaccine by late 2020, early 2021
Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday he is cautiously optimistic there will be a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year or early 2021, but warned that the next few weeks will be critical to tamping down coronavirus hot spots ...
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Read More »Surging U.S. virus cases raise fear that progress is slipping
Alarming surges in coronavirus cases across the U.S. South and West have raised fears that the outbreak is spiraling out of control and that hard-won progress against the scourge is slipping away because of resistance among many Americans to wearing masks and keeping their distance from others.
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