This health department stops ‘all COVID-19 related work’ after Missouri AG threat

The local health department of a rural southern Missouri county is halting its COVID-19 response efforts after Attorney General Eric Schmitt wrote agencies this week demanding they drop mitigation measures. The Laclede County Health Department, which serves a 35,000-person county northeast of Springfield, made the announcement in a Facebook post Thursday morning that it was suspending “all

Ohio officer on leave after video shows her patrol cruiser running over gunshot victim

Multiple agencies are investigating the incident, which police say was an accident. The victim’s mother says she wants the officer to be held accountable. A police officer in Ohio is on leave after dashcam video showed her patrol cruiser running over a shooting victim, who died shortly afterward, officials said. Springfield police Officer Amanda Rosales