The mother of a Joplin man who claims her son’s suicide in a Carthage jail was captured on video surveillance has filed a federal civil lawsuit accusing the police department and the city of negligence. Charles Roderique, 26, was being ...
Read More »Councilman: Federal reform plan could bankrupt Ferguson
As the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death nears, a Ferguson city councilman says the U.S. Justice Department’s proposal to reform policing and municipal courts in Ferguson could bankrupt the St. Louis suburb. Councilman Brian Fletcher didn’t say exactly what parts ...
Read More »Taking bow for summer, Congress leaves clashes for fall
Drained and divided, the Senate is joining the House in summer recess as Congress sets course for an autumn of showdowns over Iran, spending and Planned Parenthood. Senators left town Wednesday, a week after the House began a break that ...
Read More »Police suspect Missouri woman died from cosmetic injections
Police in the St. Louis suburb of Edmundson suspect that a woman may have died from complications of receiving illegal, cosmetic injections into her buttocks at a hotel room. Edmundson Police Chief Miklos Hurocy says investigators of 22-year-old Daysha Phillips’s ...
Read More »Obama weighs requiring paid sick leave for gov’t contractors
President Barack Obama is considering signing an executive order requiring all federal contractors to offer paid sick leave to their employees, two individuals familiar with the deliberations said Wednesday. The executive order, which is in the works but not yet ...
Read More »Missouri student transfers up slightly this school year
More than 1,170 Missouri students from two failing school systems in the St. Louis area have been placed in other nearby districts for the upcoming school year, only slightly more than the nearly 1,150 students who switched from the Riverview ...
Read More »Coal protesters, firm still battle over song lyrics in suit
The lyrics of a more than 40-year-old strip-mining protest song still amount to fighting words in Wyoming, where a lawsuit pits environmentalists against one of the nation’s largest coal mining companies. Lawyers for activists suing Peabody Energy Corp. and others ...
Read More »Missouri professor, researcher accused of removing artifacts
A professor and a research specialist at the University of Missouri face charges in Washington state for allegedly removing artifacts from a national forest without proper permits. The charges stem from a 2013 research trip the men made to the ...
Read More »NAACP to offer free legal aid to St. Louis County kids
Children appearing in St. Louis County family courts will be entitled to free legal representation under a program soon to be unveiled by the county’s NAACP chapter. Details of the program will be unveiled Friday during an NAACP-sponsored community leadership ...
Read More »2 dead, 8 hurt in violent night in St. Louis
Two people are dead and eight others are injured after another violent night in St. Louis. Police say 37-year-old Quincy Hardy was fatally shot about 8 p.m. Tuesday. He was found lying in the street with a wound to his ...
Read More »Companies exploit live-streaming apps Periscope, Meerkat
Companies have learned to use Facebook, Instagram and other social media to drum up business and now they’re finding ways to exploit two new apps, Periscope and Meerkat. The apps allow users to stream live video using just a smartphone. ...
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