The Supreme Court will consider whether prosecutors improperly singled out potential black jurors in notes and then excluded them all from the death penalty trial of a black Georgia man accused of murder. The justices agreed Tuesday to hear an appeal ...
Read More »Circus accused for elephant escape in St. Charles
A circus violated an animal welfare law by allowing three elephants to briefly get loose in Missouri and watering them too close to a Pennsylvania show’s public area where a child managed to pose for a photo behind one of ...
Read More »Demilitarizing: States retool police training
When prosecutor Dan Satterberg used to visit Washington state’s police academy, the seas would part before him. Recruits would snap to attention, backs to the walls, and allow him to pass. Now, they greet him and start a conversation. “It ...
Read More »Website details Missouri State Penitentiary inmate records
A new website is available to check records of inmates who spent time in the Missouri State Penitentiary between 1836 and 1931. Secretary of State Jason Kander on Thursday announced the website. It details the names of prisoners along with ...
Read More »Tobacco firms get partial win over claims on smoking effects
America’s largest tobacco companies must inform consumers that cigarettes were designed to increase addiction, but not that they lied to the public about the dangers of smoking, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday. The ruling from the U.S. Court ...
Read More »Prosecutors would face high bar in filing Amtrak charges
The Amtrak engineer at the controls of a train that derailed in Philadelphia, killing eight people, remains the focus of an inquiry by federal transportation safety investigators. But a second probe could prove more personally devastating: Prosecutors are trying to ...
Read More »GOP advances bill to ease rules on smaller banks
Republican senators advanced legislation Thursday that would ease rules on smaller banks and other requirements of the landmark law reining in Wall Street and the financial industry after the 2008 crisis. But it received no support from Democrats, making its ...
Read More »Former players: NFL teams ‘conspired’ to push painkillers
Hundreds of former players have filed a lawsuit claiming all 32 NFL teams, their doctors, trainers and medical staffs obtained and provided painkillers to players — often illegally — as part of a decades-long conspiracy to keep them on the ...
Read More »Cornejo enters race for Missouri House majority leader
St. Peters Rep. Robert Cornejo has entered what could be a crowded race for Missouri House majority leader. Cornejo told The Associated Press on Thursday he’s running for the position, which became vacant after former House Speaker John Diehl resigned ...
Read More »Report: Attica prison riot inmates were beaten
More than 40 years after the nation’s bloodiest prison rebellion, newly released documents contain accounts, some never before seen publicly, from National Guardsmen and a doctor who said they saw injured inmates beaten with clubs and others with wounds indicating ...
Read More »Owner of American Pharoah named in gambling debt lawsuit
Ahmed Zayat, owner of Triple Crown hopeful American Pharoah, has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses him of owing $1.65 million to a man who says he fronted Zayat money for gambling bets placed at offshore ...
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