All Missourians ages 5 and older (Pfizer vaccine) or 18 and older (Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccines) are eligible to receive COVID vaccines without charge. If you are seeking a third dose of Pfizer or Moderna, you should first talk with your health-care provider.
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For 25 years, Ken Musgrave has been a customer at Dave’s Barbershop in Grain Valley. “I think I was one of Dave’s first customers,” Musgrave says of Dave Gramling, whose Main Street barbershop has been a gathering place and community hub for a quarter of a century.
Items for the Community Calendar may be emailed to nmelton@examiner.net or mailed to: The Examiner, 300 N. Osage St., Independence, MO 64050, attention Nancy Melton. Also, check the calendar online at examiner.net.
WASHINGTON – As a raging band of his supporters scaled walls, smashed windows, used flagpoles to beat police and breached the U.S. Capitol in a bid to overturn a fair election, Donald Trump’s excommunication from the Republican Party seemed a near certainty, his name tarnished beyond repair.
GENEVA – The World Health Organization said Thursday a record 9.5 million cases of COVID-19 were tallied around the world last week, marking a 71% weekly surge that amounted to a “tsunami” as the new omicron variant sweeps worldwide. However, the number of recorded deaths declined.
ROME – The Italian government approved a measure Wednesday requiring people older than 50 to be vaccinated against the coronavirus as the country struggles with nearly daily new records of fresh infections fueled by the omicron variant.
Winning Powerball tickets yield $632M in Wisconsin, California MADISON, Wis. – Powerball tickets sold in Wisconsin and California were winners of the latest jackpot and will split $632 million, officials said.
St. Louis area hospitals are getting “crushed” by the highest number of COVID patients they’ve seen yet in the pandemic, hospital leaders said Wednesday.
As an elementary principal in the Independence School District, Patty Schumacher said, if she ever wanted to send out a mass communication, she would have Roberta Coker check it first. Coker, better known by friends by her nickname “Poo,” was director of community relations for ISD, and Schumacher later became an associate superintendent.