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Heat kills more people every year than any other climate-driven disaster. But experts say hot temperatures are likely causing even more deaths than official numbers show.

Tommy Boyd is serving a 30-year sentence for statutory sodomy.

The Department of Mental Health has continued to grapple with steep vacancies among staff, causing access to care across its state-run mental health facilities to decline as wings are shut down.

As coronavirus cases rise and more contagious variants take hold in Missouri, the four largest hospital systems in St. Louis are requiring all their workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by fall. Employees at St. Luke’s, SSM Health, BJC HealthCare and Mercy Health will need to be vaccinated by late September. Hospital officials say unvaccinated health workers are more at risk of catching the virus and more likely to spread it to patients.

The Rev. Allison Wible, a hospital chaplain for Mercy Hospital St. Louis, reflects on the quiet, unseen moments she’s been witness to over the past year as she works with COVID-19 patients and their families.

St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Rex Burlison on Friday extended a moratorium on evictions until the end of the year to help keep the coronavirus from spreading and to give city officials more time to process applications for financial assistance.

Hospitals in the St. Louis region admitted nearly 100 coronavirus patients on Wednesday. It’s the second day in a row hospitals in the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force have set a record for daily admissions.

Missouri has lost seven rural hospitals since 2014. It’s a trend seen in areas across the country, and it’s a topic explored extensively in the new podcast “Where It Hurts.”

Missouri this week saw a dramatic increase in the number of coronavirus cases, with nearly 800 people testing positive on Thursday.The seven-day average…

Mercy Health plans to lay off workers in many of its departments because the coronavirus crisis has cut its revenues. The Chesterfield-based health system…