A Kansas waterslide billed as the world’s tallest remained off-limits as authorities pressed to figure out how a state lawmaker’s 10-year-old son died of a neck injury while riding it. Details remained murky about what happened Sunday to Caleb Thomas ...
Read More »Lawyers for Ferguson seek any Michael Brown juvenile records
The city of Ferguson and other defendants in a wrongful-death lawsuit by Michael Brown’s parents are seeking access to any juvenile records of the black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a white police officer in 2014 — a request ...
Read More »Corps: Giving it contaminated landfill would not speed fix
Efforts to resolve a burning suburban St. Louis landfill near buried radioactive waste will not be hastened if oversight of the project is shifted from federal environmentalists to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a top Corps official has argued. ...
Read More »St. Louis police chief questions judges’ accountability
The St. Louis police chief vented online Monday about the city’s judges, saying he believes they are too lenient in cases involving gun crimes and insisting presiding jurists “are accountable to virtually no one.” Chief Sam Dotson — in a ...
Read More »Missouri woman accused of embezzling $1.2M from Garmin
A Missouri woman already accused of embezzling more than $300,000 from engineering firm Black & Veatch stole $1.2 million during an earlier job at Garmin International, a new federal indictment alleges. A federal grand jury in Kansas City, Missouri, indicted ...
Read More »Missouri plans to seek death penalty for Mexican national
Missouri prosecutors on Friday filed their formal plan to pursue the death penalty against a Mexican national in the shooting death of a man a day after he allegedly killed four people in Kansas. Prosecutors in Montgomery County submitted court ...
Read More »Jewish group faults Missouri school’s anti-Semitism response
The University of Missouri downplayed incidents of anti-Semitism while publicly condemning bigotry against racial minorities during protests last year, a Jewish human rights group told the university system’s top administrator. In a letter this week to interim system president Mike ...
Read More »EPA announces latest steps addressing Missouri landfill fire
The owner of a burning suburban St. Louis landfill near buried radioactive waste has agreed to new measures meant to slow and help monitor the underground blaze, a U.S. Environmental Agency administrator said last week. While stressing there’s no evidence ...
Read More »Former St. Louis officer admits civil rights violation
A former St. Louis police officer was ordered jailed Wednesday pending sentencing after admitting in federal court that he assaulted a handcuffed man in a case that forced a city prosecutor’s resignation. Thomas Carroll, 52, waived a formal reading of ...
Read More »Missouri educator fired over role in protests files appeal
A former University of Missouri assistant communications professor is appealing her firing last month over her role last year in a race-related student protest, suggesting that her ouster was political. Melissa Click, in a statement Tuesday, insisted her Feb. 25 ...
Read More »Univ. of Missouri fires instructor after student run-ins
The University of Missouri fired an assistant professor on Thursday who had been suspended after run-ins with student journalists during protests last year, including a videotaped confrontation where she called for “some muscle” to remove a videographer from the Columbia ...
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