The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, August 4th, 2021, including Kansas City area hospitals are so full, they’re asking people not to go to the emergency room unless they have a true emergency, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed a lawsuit against Kansas City’s new mask mandate, President Joe Biden’s administration is preparing to enact a partial moratorium on evictions following a five-day protest outside the U.S. Capitol led by Missouri Rep. Cori Bush and a vehicle fleeing from shooting suspects crashed Tuesday in Kansas City, sending four people to hospitals.

The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, August 3, 2021, including a Missouri Boy Scout camp sent kids home early after a handful of people attending the last session of the summer tested positive for COVID-19, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said he will prosecute any election crimes in Douglas County that the district attorney refuses to act on, Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said that each remaining school in the league can expect to earn about $14 million less per year without Texas and OU and Jason Isbell’s Kansas City area concert has been canceled due to ‘unforeseen circumstances.’

The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, August 2, 2021, including the expiration of the federal eviction moratorium, a car crashes into the historic McConahay Building, a new peak average for COVID-19 cases in the KC Metro area and Michael Corvino's restaurant, Ravenous, shuts down in Parlor food hall.

The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, July 30th, 2021, including all University of Missouri campuses will require masks in class this fall, regardless of vaccination status, the National Weather Service in Kansas City has issued an excessive heat warning for the Kansas City metropolitan area and surrounding counties, the Johnson County Board of Commissioners is expected to vote next week on whether to issue a new countywide mask mandate and ESPN responds to Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby’s cease-and-desist letter.

The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, July 29th, 2021, including Kansas City will once again be under a mask mandate, Cerner Corp. plans to sell off one of its major office campuses this year, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly required masks for state employees but stopped short of a new statewide mandate and cooler weather is in sight as Kansas City faces two more days of dangerous excessive heat.

The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, July 28, 2021, including Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas says the city is looking at new CDC COVID guidance, Kansas City police board loosened its residency rule but doesn’t include Kansas, the Missouri attorney general says a judge’s ruling and release of reform school owners was ‘completely improper’ and Chiefs star Patrick Mahomes has bought an ownership stake in Sporting KC.

The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, including local leaders seek federal investigation of Kansas City police, Children’s Mercy says that its hospital has reached capacity, 27 people at two southwest Missouri health systems died over the weekend from COVID-19 and the Kansas City Chiefs have retired Warpaint, a horse ridden by a Chiefs cheerleader, on the field on game days.

The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, July 26, 2021, including Whiteman Air Force Base's reinstated mask mandate, more pleas from local health officials regarding COVID-19, a new union contract signed at a Frito-Lay plant in Topeka and Daniel Lynch tosses eight scoreless innings for the Kansas City Royals to get his first career win.

The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, July 23, 2021, including more evidence revealed in Overland Park police shooting of John Albers went unreported, Missouri Supreme Court upholds voter-approved Medicaid expansion, Bob Meneilly dies, and Kansas City’s NWSL women’s pro soccer team trades star captain ‘A-Rod’ for 3 new faces.

The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, July 22, 2021, including Missouri Gov. Mike Parson reveals COVID vaccine incentive program with cash and prizes, New head of Missouri state health agency appointed, Missouri hits new peak in delta variant cases, and Kansas City Zoo director to retire at the end of 2021.