A seven-term prosecuting attorney in St. Louis County who gained national attention in his handling of the investigation of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson lost a primary challenge Tuesday to a black Ferguson councilman, according to ...
Read More »Missouri sides with Nevada in drugmaker delay of execution
Fifteen states, including Missouri, are siding with Nevada in a state Supreme Court fight against drug companies suing to prevent the use of their products to execute a condemned inmate. In what a national death penalty expert on Tuesday called ...
Read More »Court: State can base e-school funding on participation data
Ohio had authority to calculate a giant online charter school’s funding using student participation data rather than only enrollment, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in the latest blow to the now-dismantled e-school. The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, which had ...
Read More »Judge refuses to reopen North Dakota pipeline security suit
A North Dakota judge has refused to reopen a lawsuit that state regulators filed against a North Carolina-based private security firm accused of using heavy-handed tactics against people protesting the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline. Judge John Grinsteiner’s decision ...
Read More »Man who jumped out of freezer and died was cold-case suspect
A man who jumped out of a freezer and threatened employees with a knife at a New York City brunch spot and then died was a suspected cold-case killer who had just been released from jail in Boston, authorities revealed ...
Read More »Ex-judges to review evidence in Missouri death penalty case
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson will allow a panel of five former judges to review the death penalty case of Marcellus Williams, whose guilt in the stabbing death of a former newspaper reporter has been called into question by DNA evidence. ...
Read More »Court affirms $5.75M verdict against Jungerman
The Court of Appeals Western District on Tuesday upheld a $5.75 million jury verdict against Kansas City businessman David Jungerman, who is accused of murdering the attorney who won the case against him. In July 2017, a Jackson County jury ...
Read More »Trump breaks with aides, tweets endorsement of Kobach
President Donald Trump overruled the warnings of aides Monday to endorse controversial Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach in that state’s Republican gubernatorial primary. In a morning tweet ahead of the Tuesday contest, Trump said Kobach has his “full & ...
Read More »GOP senators rave about Kavanaugh; Dems prepare to grill him
Now that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has met privately with almost every Republican senator, it’s becoming increasingly clear President Donald Trump’s pick for the bench is running into little GOP resistance to confirmation this fall. The conservative appellate judge ...
Read More »Former corrections officers seek to block execution
Nearly two dozen former corrections officers from across the country have filed a court brief in support of a Missouri death-row inmate’s claim that his medical condition could cause an unconstitutionally cruel execution. Russell Bucklew was sentenced to death in ...
Read More »Judge in Manafort trial has a sharp wit, sharp tongue
“I’m not in the theater business,” Judge T.S. Ellis asserted during jury selection in Paul Manafort’s financial fraud trial. “You have to be better-looking for that.” Objection, Your Honor. The trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman has plenty ...
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