A St. Louis County judge on Monday refused to lower bail for a former Catholic priest who was previously imprisoned and labeled sexually violent. Fred Lenczycki, 74, of suburban Chicago, was charged in February with two counts of sodomy for ...
Read More »Fight over who will hear Rams suit may be at an end
For arguably the third time, the Court of Appeals Eastern District has ruled that the disputed exit of the Rams from St. Louis should not be resolved in arbitration. The April 16 decision is the latest in a fight involving ...
Read More »Missouri man charged with threatening Sen. Josh Hawley
An eastern Missouri man has been arrested after authorities say he threatened Republican Sen. Josh Hawley in a social media message. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Jeremy Cawthon appeared in federal court Friday in St. Louis for a brief ...
Read More »St. Louis lawyer charged with abusing client
A St. Louis attorney has been charged with sexually abusing a client at his law office. The St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office alleged that Joseph V. Neill, 66, committed second-degree sexual abuse on Sept. 29, 2018. According to charges filed ...
Read More »St. Louis prosecutor says warrant seeks to intimidate her
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 »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 »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 »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 ...
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