Missouri’s governor and top law enforcer are asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit by a group of Satanic worshippers who allege the state’s abortion restrictions violate their religious beliefs and should be scrapped. Attorneys for Gov. Jay ...
Read More »2016 trial set for Brown family’s suit against Ferguson
A federal wrongful-death lawsuit brought by Michael Brown’s parents over his fatal shooting by a Ferguson police officer won’t go to trial for at least another year. U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber in St. Louis has scheduled an October ...
Read More »Grand juror in Michael Brown case appeals gag order on panel
A member of the grand jury that declined to indict a white Ferguson police officer in the shooting death of Michael Brown is challenging a federal judge’s dismissal of her lawsuit that sought to allow her to speak publicly about ...
Read More »Lawsuit seeks emails from prosecutor in Michael Brown case
A lawsuit is asking a judge to compel the St. Louis County prosecutor to make public his office’s emails during the months he oversaw grand jury proceedings involving the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. The lawsuit was filed Aug. 7 ...
Read More »4th night of Ferguson protests brings confrontation, arrests
Police arrested nearly two dozen people in Ferguson during a protest that stretched into early Tuesday marking the anniversary of the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, although there was no repeat of the violence that scarred weekend demonstrations. There ...
Read More »Ferguson hires another interim police chief
The Ferguson police force has new leadership for the third time in four months. The city on Wednesday introduced Andre Anderson, 50, as interim chief. Anderson previously was police commander in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale, Arizona — the same ...
Read More »Missouri executes man for killing 19-year-old
A Missouri inmate who sexually attacked a 19-year-old woman before tying her to a cemetery tree and killing her was executed Tuesday after the U.S. Supreme Court and the governor declined to intervene.
Read More »Suspect in Ferguson police shooting likely to stay jailed
An attorney for a man accused of shooting two police officers during a protest in Ferguson said Thursday that he expects his client will remain jailed until the case is resolved. St. Louis County Circuit Judge Gloria Reno on Wednesday ...
Read More »Friend who witnessed Michael Brown’s death appears in court
The friend who was with Michael Brown last summer when 18-year-old Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer made his first court appearance Monday on a misdemeanor charge linked to an unrelated incident involving police last month. ...
Read More »Missouri police stopped blacks more than whites in 2014
The disparity in the rate at which Missouri authorities pulled over black drivers compared with whites last year surged to its highest level since the state began compiling data 15 years ago, the state’s top law enforcer said Monday. Attorney ...
Read More »Judge defers ruling on Ferguson prosecution probe
A Missouri judge has yet to decide on an activists’ request for an independent probe of the county prosecutor’s handling of grand jury proceedings in the Ferguson police shooting of Michael Brown. St. Louis Circuit Judge Joseph Walsh III ended ...
Read More »