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The first Black woman to serve as prosecuting attorney in St. Louis is a step closer to winning another term in office. Kim Gardner defeated Mary Pat Carl, a former assistant prosecutor, 61% to 39% in Tuesday’s Democratic primary.

Missouri voters on Tuesday approved Medicaid expansion and decided several key races in the St. Louis region, including Democratic primaries for the 1st Congressional District, St. Louis County executive and St. Louis Circuit Attorney.

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page emerged victorious in the Democratic primary for the county’s top elected position Tuesday, beating back a bruising and expensive challenge from three opponents. Page bested St. Louis County Assessor Jake Zimmerman, businessman Mark Mantovani and University City resident Jamie Tolliver.

After discussing the idea for years, Missouri voters narrowly agreed Tuesday to expand Medicaid — giving roughly 230,000 additional people access to health care. The constitutional amendment passed 53% to 47%.

Missouri’s 1st Congressional District will have a new Democratic candidate for the first time in more than 20 years, after Cori Bush defeated longtime Rep. Lacy Clay in Tuesday’s Democratic primary. Bush ran on a progressive agenda saying Clay, of University City, had been in office too long and hadn’t done enough for the residents of the district. She defeated Clay by about 4,600 votes.

St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison and Sheriff Vernon Betts have agreed to temporarily halt evictions to allow people to seek rental and mortgage assistance. Housing advocates say the break is necessary, as many people have lost income during the coronavirus pandemic.

Volunteers from St. Louis have harvested thousands of pounds of vegetables from Indiana farms this summer, distributing it to local food pantries and soup kitchens.

Missouri and Oklahoma are both trying to help reduce the supply chain problems in the meat industry seen during the coronavirus pandemic by directing federal grant dollars to meatpacking plants.

Philadelphia-based group Monument Lab asked 750 St. Louisans to draw maps of the city from memory. The results provided different views of the city's history, along a familiar racial divide.

The St. Louis Cardinals have had 13 members of their traveling party — seven players and six staff members — test positive for COVID-19, Major League Baseball and the team announced Monday. As a result, this week’s four game series in Detroit, which already had featured one postponed game, one double header, and two games moved out of St. Louis, has been postponed entirely.

Research shows that the number of warm, humid days that allow mosquitoes to thrive is increasing in Missouri due to climate change. St. Louis-area scientists think local health officials need to increase their tracking of mosquitoes and the diseases the insects carry to prepare for longer mosquito seasons.

Critics have said the system has been too punitive and too ineffective. More than half of youth who are released end up getting in trouble again....