With the Rams gone, the St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority is seeking to find a use for the team’s vacated practice facility in the suburb of Earth City. The authority has hired the Sansone Group as the ...
Read More »Student sues Harris-Stowe State over drug accusation
A women’s basketball player at Harris-Stowe University in St. Louis has filed a lawsuit against the school, saying she was wrongly accused of drug possession and suspended for a year after denying a dean’s sexual advances. The suit filed by ...
Read More »Nixon appoints 3 new curators to lead University of Missouri
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has appointed three members to the University of Missouri’s Board of Curators. Nixon said Wednesday the newly filled nine-member board now can select a new president after student protests led to the former president’s ouster last ...
Read More »Court affirms market owner’s conviction for sales of fake goods
A federal appeals court on Wednesday denied a constitutional challenge from a St. Louis County flea market operator convicted of allowing vendors to sell counterfeit goods on his property. Jack Frison Sr. was convicted in 2014 following a raid on ...
Read More »Court crafts ‘roadmap’ to keep polls open late
Long lines, no. Ballot shortages, yes. The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District issued an opinion on Tuesday explaining its hastily issued order on April 5 for some St. Louis County polling places to remain open late after they’d run ...
Read More »Appeals court looks at personhood of frozen embryos
Whether a frozen embryo should be considered a person is at the heart of a case the Eastern District Court of Appeals heard on Wednesday. A St. Louis County circuit court in October ruled that Justin Gadberry and Jalesia McQueen’s ...
Read More »McCulloch special prosecutor rejected
The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District on Tuesday affirmed a trial court’s decision to grant St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch’s motion to dismiss in a case that sought a special prosecutor to investigate his conduct in the ...
Read More »Memorial service set for former Missouri lawmaker, judge
A memorial service is planned for next month for former Missouri appellate judge and Republican lawmaker Robert O. Snyder. Snyder was 98 when he died May 25 of heart failure at his home in Kirkwood. The Navy veteran of World ...
Read More »Judge strikes blow to Missouri cigarette tax initiative
An initiative proposing to raise Missouri’s cigarette tax to benefit early childhood programs is in jeopardy of not making the November ballot after a judge ruled its financial estimate is insufficient and unfair. The ruling Thursday by Cole County Circuit ...
Read More »Supreme Court considers would-be candidate’s case
The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday weighed the allegedly “heavy burden” that candidates for some state offices face because they must be registered to vote for at least two years. In an expedited case that likely marked its last oral ...
Read More »Former Bryan Cave attorney gets 3 years supervised release
Ryan Walsh, a former Bryan Cave attorney, was sentenced Tuesday to time served with three years of supervised release for making threats against a former colleague. Walsh, 32, is to be released Wednesday. He pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court ...
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