A recent state inspection found 11 alleged violations of amusement-park regulations at a Kansas water park where a boy died in 2016, with one raising questions about whether a ride’s parts are being replaced as quickly as recommended. The Kansas ...
Read More »Snitch: FBI’s use of informants as old as the agency itself
Snitches, moles, spies, whistleblowers. Government informants are an age-old investigative tool that’s as much a part of the FBI’s 110 years of history as J. Edgar Hoover or its “10 Most Wanted” list. In the case of President Donald Trump, ...
Read More »Teachers who led strikes now turning focus to elections
As they packed up their protest signs and returned to the classroom to finish out the school year, thousands of teachers in North Carolina turned their attention to a different fight: the midterm elections. Their counterparts in Arizona, Oklahoma and ...
Read More »Judge sides with transgender teen, declines to dismiss suit
A federal judge on Tuesday sided with a transgender teen in Virginia who claims a school board violated his rights when it banned him from using boys’ bathrooms. U.S. District Court Judge Arenda Wright Allen declined the Gloucester County School ...
Read More »Low US unemployment rate masks financial struggles for many
Despite an ultra-low 3.9 percent unemployment rate, about one-third of U.S. adults faced financial insecurity last year and often struggled to pay unexpected expenses, a Federal Reserve survey found. For three in 10 adults, their monthly incomes fluctuated — often ...
Read More »Court says age doesn’t begin at conception
The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled Tuesday that a man can’t dodge his child-molestation convictions by calculating his victim’s age from the date of conception. In November 2016, Eric Ryan Crider was convicted in a Callaway County bench ...
Read More »Woman reiterates her account of sexual misconduct by Greitens
A woman who had an affair with Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is defending her account that he coerced her into unwanted sexual activity during an encounter at Greitens’ home several years ago. The woman who has been identified in court ...
Read More »Emergency 911 technology struggles to keep up with the times
High school students hiding from the gunman in Parkland, Florida, were forced to whisper in calls to 911 for fear of tipping off their location. Others texted friends and family who then relayed information to emergency dispatchers over the phone. ...
Read More »ACLU: Amazon shouldn’t sell face-recognition tech to police
The American Civil Liberties Union and other privacy activists are asking Amazon to stop marketing a powerful facial-recognition tool to police, saying law-enforcement agencies could use the technology to “easily build a system to automate the identification and tracking of ...
Read More »McDonald’s workers file sex-harassment claims
Two national advocacy groups are teaming up to lodge sexual-harassment complaints against McDonald’s on behalf of 10 women who have worked at the restaurant in nine cities. The workers — one of them a 15-year-old from St. Louis — alleged ...
Read More »Judge appoints special prosecutor to decide on Greitens case
A St. Louis judge on Monday appointed the prosecutor in Jackson County as the special prosecutor who will decide whether to refile an invasion-of-privacy case against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens. St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison recused the St. Louis ...
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