Recent unrest on the anniversary of Michael Brown’s police shooting death in Ferguson, Missouri, has led to the postponement of a trial for a white state trooper accused of an improper strip search of a black Illinois motorist, a prosecutor ...
Read More »Man sues over I-70 shutdown arrest, says he’s ACLU observer
A man who says he was an American Civil Liberties Union legal observer at a protest that shut down Interstate 70 this week is suing St. Louis County, claiming he was wrongly arrested and detained for 18 hours without charges. ...
Read More »Military says it is committed to fairness in Manning case
The U.S. military said Thursday that it is committed to “a fair and equitable process” in the case of national security leaker Chelsea Manning and other prisoners accused of breaking rules at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth. The response ...
Read More »Fair time in Iowa: A chance to heckle would-be presidents
Sampling the pork chop on a stick. Snapping a selfie with the butter cow. Taking questions about foreign policy from hecklers. For those who would be president, a visit to the Iowa State Fair may be the purest distillation of the campaign ...
Read More »AP EXCLUSIVE: Top secret Clinton emails include drone talk
The two emails on Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private server that an auditor deemed “top secret” include a discussion of a news article detailing a U.S. drone operation and a separate conversation that could point back to highly classified material in ...
Read More »Addict amnesty: Police give heroin addicts support, rehab
The young woman nursing a fresh black eye has come to the police station in this old fishing city for help. But she’s not looking to report a crime or seek someone’s arrest. She wants help kicking her heroin addiction. ...
Read More »Court: Baker who refused gay wedding cake can’t cite beliefs
A suburban Denver baker who wouldn’t make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple cannot cite his religious beliefs in refusing them service because it would lead to discrimination, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. The decision is the ...
Read More »Lambert’s Cafe sued over “throwed rolls”
A Missouri restaurant known for tossing its dinner rolls at patrons is being sued by a St. Louis woman who claims one of the rolls injured her eye. The Springfield News-Leader reports (http://sgfnow.co/1NdwxvR ) Troy Tucker is seeking at least ...
Read More »Top workers buying businesses from retiring boomer bosses
As retiring baby boomers look to sell the small businesses they have run for years, top employees are often becoming the boss. The new owners are likely to be general managers, chief operating officers or foremen who have worked for ...
Read More »As anniversary and protests fade, Ferguson looks ahead
By Wednesday, police outnumbered protesters in the St. Louis suburb that launched the “Black Lives Matter” movement, signaling that the nightly demonstrations could be fading after the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death. But Ferguson, and the issues that elevated it ...
Read More »Edward Jones to pay $20M to settle federal bond sales probe
Edward Jones has agreed to pay more than $20 million to settle claims by federal regulators that the brokerage firm and its former head of municipal underwriting overcharged customers in new municipal bonds sales, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ...
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