Stories from Friday, April 17, 2020

Jefferson City — On Thursday, Governor Mike Parson extended the statewide “Stay Home Missouri” Order through May 3, and announced the state’s initial framework to help Missouri safely and gradually move into the recovery phase of Covid-19. “We are seeing very early signs in the data leading us to be cautiously optimist that Missouri is beginning to slow the course of the infection and see improvement, even in our hardest hit areas like St. ...

Community and area business leaders joined City Manager Mark Mitchell in a conference call Wednesday morning, for the purpose of providing updates on their ongoing Covid-19 response strategies. During the latter portion of the approximately 30-minute round-table discussion, Alyson Harder, CEO of Heartland Behavioral Health Service, detailed the current state of affairs at Heartland...