The St. Louis prosecutor’s ongoing feud with others in the city’s legal establishment escalated Wednesday when her attorney accused a judge, the police and a special prosecutor of trying to “intimidate and humiliate” her. The latest dust-up between Circuit Attorney ...
Read More »Planners in Kansas City suburb approve Islamic center plan
A proposed Islamic center in a Kansas City suburb that could serve as a centralized location for Muslims on both sides of the state line has gained approval from planning commissioners. The Overland Park Planning Commission on Monday granted preliminary ...
Read More »Missouri moves to shutter suburban St. Louis day care center
Missouri is taking steps to revoke the license of a suburban St. Louis day care center after two of its workers were charged with abuse and the state will form a working group to examine child care issues, Gov. Mike ...
Read More »Senate revises venue bill in shadow of court ruling
The Missouri Senate has given first-round approval to a bill that would alter Missouri’s venue and joinder laws — in a way far different from what lawmakers had envisioned just two weeks ago. The bill, approved on a voice vote ...
Read More »Defense says Missouri officer’s killing wasn’t premeditated
A man on trial for the fatal shooting of a St. Louis County police officer had talked on social media and in text messages about wanting to die in a “suicide by cop” encounter and told the fallen officer’s partner ...
Read More »Chesterfield looks into secession if merger moves forward
The proposed merger of St. Louis city and county has one municipality considering a drastic measure — merging into an adjacent county. St. Louis Public Radio reports that Chesterfield City Council members this week voted to direct staff to look ...
Read More »Former lawmaker’s testimony raises lobbying questions
Testimony from a former legislator this week before a Missouri Senate committee is raising questions about whether he followed state laws prohibiting ex-lawmakers from quickly returning to lobby at the Statehouse. Former state Rep. Kevin Corlew, a Kansas City Republican, ...
Read More »Police: St. Louis officer killed in accidental shooting
A St. Louis police officer “mishandled” a gun and accidentally shot and killed a colleague early Thursday, authorities said. The shooting happened around 1 a.m. at an officer’s home, police Chief John Hayden told reporters during a news conference shortly ...
Read More »Undercover officer: Colleagues beat him ‘like Rodney King’
An undercover St. Louis police officer reported that his colleagues beat him “like Rodney King” when they mistook him for a protester following the acquittal of a white former officer in the fatal shooting of a black man, according to ...
Read More »After 2016 ruling, battles over juvenile-lifer cases persist
Locked up for life at 15, Norman Brown remains defined by the crime that put him behind bars. Twenty-seven years ago, Brown joined a neighbor more than twice his age to rob a jewelry shop in Chesterfield, Missouri, and the ...
Read More »Defendant in deadly store attack accused in earlier assault
A man accused of killing a woman and sexually assaulting two others inside a suburban St. Louis religious supplies store in November was charged Monday with sexually assaulting another woman two months earlier. Thomas Bruce, 53, is charged with kidnapping, ...
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