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Coronavirus vaccines will soon be available in the St. Louis area.

"We just can’t keep COVID-19 out when community transmission is so high.

Vaccines will become available to teachers, child care providers and other essential workers who comprise half of Missouri’s 6 million people in the spring.

One month from today, Lisa Montgomery could become the first woman executed by the federal government since 1953. She faces the death penalty for one of the most heinous murders in recent Missouri history: that of pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett. But her lawyers point to a mountain of mitigating evidence, including years of documented abuse as a child and severe mental illness.

Sadly we are not keeping up with the pace of the virus right now. Right now the virus is winning.

If it were easy, if we sent out some keyboard, it wouldn’t be so hard and it wouldn’t denote how committed we are to the idea ... and why we're doing it." That why is what Joe Jackson emphasized the most on today's #StLouisOnTheAir: raising awareness and funds for Places for People, which is focused on helping people work through mental illness and substance use disorders.

Schmitt's enthusiastic involvement in a legal battle outside the Show-Me State is not as unusual among attorneys general as some may think, Washington University's Ronald Levin says. But Levin also considers this "an extreme example." #StLouisOnTheAir

Now students and teachers exposed to the coronavirus do not need to quarantine as long as masks were worn. But the change comes just as schools are going back to virtual learning.

On last week's episode of "Shark Tank," St. Louis entrepreneur Akeem Shannon made a deal. He's also investing in St. Louis in a big way.

There’s been a long history of police brutality and unjust deaths in our country, unfortunately, St. Louis native Beau Willimon said, but I think Ferguson in many ways brought it to the national fore in terms of our collective consciousness, in a way that many incidents in the past had not, and Freddie Gray was an extension of that. His new documentary is part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival.