St. Louis Shakespeare Festival eyes a June 2 return to Forest Park for its first production of "King Lear," after canceling its 2020 show because of the coronavirus. The cast is composed entirely of artists of color.
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St. Louis County officials are providing the COVID-19 vaccine to residents of independent living facilities who don’t qualify for vaccines made available for nursing home residents.
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A series of videos on YouTube and Facebook in Spanish are designed to get new visitors to the state's parks.
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More coronavirus vaccination events are coming to St. Louis and Kansas City starting next week, Gov. Mike Parson said Thursday. A higher percentage of people are interested in receiving the vaccine in urban centers than in rural areas, Parson said. Because of that difference in demand, more mass vaccination events will be moved to the state’s two largest metropolitan areas.
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The Missouri House of Representatives approved a bill Thursday that aims to waive repayment of about 80% of the unemployment money the state said it overpaid people last year.
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St. Louis attorneys Elad Gross and Mark Pedroli got a surprise in a set of documents they recently unearthed via Sunshine requests: proof that Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office exchanged emails with the Rule of Law Defense Fund leading up to the November 2020 election — and continued to receive numerous communications from the fund afterward.
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Carey Gillam’s new book, “The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption and One Man’s Search for Justice,” takes readers behind the scenes as DeWayne "Lee" Johnson’s lawyers plot against the agriculture giant — a case that resulted in a $289 million jury verdict. She discussed it on "St. Louis on the Air."
Then Resident Conductor Gemma New led the orchestra in a program of works by Smith, Sibelius, Grieg, Kernis and Elgar featuring pianist Behzod Abduraimov to open the SLSO's 2018-19 season.
County health centers and St. Louis-area hospital systems have launched online forms where people can pre-register to receive coronavirus vaccinations.