A Missouri man already serving 20 years in state prison for killing his wife pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal charge expected to add more years to his time behind bars. Clay Waller, 45, entered the plea to one count ...
Read More »Cold War radiation testing in US widespread, author claims
Three members of Congress are demanding answers after a St. Louis scholar’s new book revealed details of secret Cold War-era U.S. government testing in which countless unsuspecting people, including many children, pregnant women and minorities, were fed, sprayed or injected ...
Read More »Police defend their actions in Missouri protest arrests
Two St. Louis-area police agencies are defending their actions in arresting nearly two dozen protesters at a mall amid complaints that the demonstrators were taken down forcefully, including a female pastor allegedly put in a chokehold. A protest Saturday at ...
Read More »Mayors back effort to put minimum wage to statewide vote
Both of Missouri’s urban mayors are among supporters of an effort to let voters decide if Missouri’s minimum wage should rise to $12 an hour by 2023. St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson and Kansas City Mayor Sly James said Monday ...
Read More »Thousands in St. Louis likely to see wage drop with new law
Thousands of workers in St. Louis will likely see smaller paychecks starting Monday, when a new Missouri law took effect barring local government from enacting minimum wages different than the state minimum. The law is drawing protests in St. Louis ...
Read More »Missouri Supreme Court rejects request to stop execution
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a motion from attorneys seeking to halt the execution of a man scheduled to die next week but did not explain its decision. Attorneys for Marcellus Williams had asked the state Supreme Court ...
Read More »Missouri becomes last state to create drug-monitoring plan
Missouri became the final state to create a prescription drug-monitoring program after Republican Gov. Eric Greitens signed an executive order Monday aimed at combatting a scourge that killed more than 900 residents last year. The monitoring program could be operating ...
Read More »Ferguson attorney: Brown family settlement $1.5 million
The insurance company for the city of Ferguson, Missouri, paid $1.5 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Michael Brown’s parents, the city attorney said Friday. Attorney Apollo Carey disclosed the amount in an email in response to ...
Read More »Settlement reached in lawsuit over Michael Brown’s death
A federal judge on Tuesday approved a settlement in the wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the parents of Michael Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old, whose fatal shooting by a white police officer nearly three years ago in Ferguson, Missouri, set off ...
Read More »Height of Illinois levees concerning to some in Missouri
State versus state battle lines are being drawn across the Mississippi River, with a top Missouri official urging Illinois regulators to back away from a plan allowing higher levees that could push more floodwater to the Missouri side of the ...
Read More »Workers remove portion of St. Louis’ Confederate monument
A portion of a 38-foot-tall granite monument to the Confederacy in St. Louis has been removed, but a spokesman for the mayor’s office said the bulk of the memorial may remain in place for weeks. Cranes arrived Thursday at the ...
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