#Fauci calls mask mandates ‘understandable,’ but CDC guidelines ‘still hold’

#Fauci calls mask mandates ‘understandable,’ but CDC guidelines ‘still hold’

“#Fauci calls mask mandates ‘understandable,’ but CDC guidelines ‘still hold’” Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday that the return of local mask mandates due to the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19 is “quite understandable,” but stopped short of saying the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s should reverse current guidance regarding mask-wearing for vaccinated…

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#St. Louis elects first Black female mayor

#St. Louis elects first Black female mayor

“#St. Louis elects first Black female mayor” ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones, who has been outspoken in her criticism of the criminal justice system’s “arrest and incarcerate” model, won election Tuesday and will take over as the first Black female mayor in a city beset by yet another wave of violent crime….

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#Inmates break windows, set fires inside St. Louis jail

#Inmates break windows, set fires inside St. Louis jail

“#Inmates break windows, set fires inside St. Louis jail” Dozens of inmates at a St. Louis jail revolted on Sunday night — breaking windows and setting fires to the facility, according to reports. About 60 rioting inmates wreaked havoc at the Justice Center on the facility’s second and third floors beginning at about 8:45 p.m.,…

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#MO man kills wife, two children before committing suicide

#MO man kills wife, two children before committing suicide

“#MO man kills wife, two children before committing suicide” A Missouri man suspected of murdering his estranged wife and her two children fatally shot himself as police tried to arrest him last week, a report said. Bobby McCulley, 35, allegedly carried out the triple murder last Thursday — just five days after filing for divorce…

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#St. Louis woman charged with kidnapping, robbing 80-year-old

#St. Louis woman charged with kidnapping, robbing 80-year-old

“#St. Louis woman charged with kidnapping, robbing 80-year-old” A St. Louis woman has been charged with kidnapping an 80-year-old woman at gunpoint in a grocery store parking lot, authorities said. Ginger Ephrim, 24, was charged Monday with first-degree robbery and kidnapping in a July 29 attack that started outside a Schnucks grocery store near Carondelet…

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