As the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus tries to rebound from racial unrest, the system’s governing board is without minority representation after two black members resigned last week — leaving one-third of the nine seats vacant. All three departures happened ...
Read More »Interim Missouri chancellor rebuffs calls to fire professor
An interim chancellor on Monday rebuffed demands for the ouster of an assistant University of Missouri professor that have been rekindled in the wake of her being criminally charged for a campus run-in with student journalists during protests. Hank Foley, ...
Read More »Freed Kansas inmate faces challenge getting compensated
After serving more than 15 years for a crime his brother admitted to in a suicide note last month, Floyd Bledsoe had little more than the flannel shirt and jeans he wore when a Kansas judge freed him Tuesday. But ...
Read More »2 St. Louis police officers cleared in deadly shooting
Two St. Louis police officers acted in self-defense and won’t be charged in the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old man who was armed with a steak knife as he approached the officers and urged them to shoot him, the city’s ...
Read More »Federal judge declines to block Missouri execution
A federal judge refused Tuesday to block Missouri’s scheduled execution next week of an inmate who killed three convenience store workers with a claw hammer, rejecting his claim that the execution drugs could cause an agonizing reaction with his brain ...
Read More »EPA: Remedy to landfill fire to come in 2015
A plan to make sure an underground St. Louis-area landfill fire doesn’t reach a cache of Cold War-era nuclear waste buried nearby will come before the end of 2015, an Environmental Protection Agency administrator said Monday. Mark Hague, acting chief ...
Read More »Woman pleads guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to role in effort to aid terror groups
A Bosnian immigrant who used to live in Illinois pleaded guilty Monday to a federal conspiracy charge for her role in an effort to support terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria. Jasminka Ramic entered the plea to one count of ...
Read More »Class-action suit filed on behalf of Missouri VW owners
A class-action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Missouri owners of diesel Volkswagen vehicles, in the latest fallout from the German company’s rigging of emissions technology to pass air-quality tests. The suburban St. Louis law firm of Jacobson, Press ...
Read More »‘Castle doctrine’ may be in play in St. Louis Co. shooting
St. Louis County prosecutors on Thursday were weighing whether to charge a man who police say fatally shot an intruder and could be protected under Missouri’s castle doctrine law. Joel Wright, 41, was shot once in the head Tuesday night ...
Read More »Missouri attorney general: Walgreen Co. deceiving consumers
Missouri’s attorney general is taking Walgreen Co. back to court, alleging the nation’s biggest pharmacy chain is violating a settlement reached last year over its pricing practices. Attorney General Chris Koster’s office on Tuesday asked a judge to hold the ...
Read More »Appeals court upholds injunction halting health mandate
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that President Barack Obama’s health care law unjustly burdens religiously affiliated employers by forcing them to help provide insurance coverage for certain contraceptives, even though they can opt out of directly paying for it. ...
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