Four years after the deadly police shooting that triggered racial unrest in Ferguson and helped give rise to the Black Lives Matter movement, an African American city councilman scored an election upset and ousted the white prosecutor criticized over his ...
Read More »Ferguson councilman ousts prosecutor McCulloch in primary
A seven-term prosecuting attorney in St. Louis County who gained national attention in his handling of the investigation of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson lost a primary challenge Tuesday to a black Ferguson councilman, according to ...
Read More »Court affirms $5.75M verdict against Jungerman
The Court of Appeals Western District on Tuesday upheld a $5.75 million jury verdict against Kansas City businessman David Jungerman, who is accused of murdering the attorney who won the case against him. In July 2017, a Jackson County jury ...
Read More »Judge: Attorney’s death ‘elephant in the room’
Before David Jungerman’s attorney could make his first point before the Western District Court of Appeals on Tuesday, Judge Alok Ahuja quickly zeroed in on what he later called “the elephant in the room” – that Jungerman is being accused ...
Read More »Six Flags waterslide injury highlights lax regulation
No government officials conducted a safety inspection of a new waterslide at Six Flags St. Louis before a woman said she suffered whiplash last month from the force of the “Typhoon Twister” that featured a five-story drop and a “45-foot ...
Read More »Court finds fault with Ferguson district’s election method
An appeals court ruled Tuesday that a Missouri school district that includes students from Ferguson violated the federal Voting Rights Act in its method of electing board members. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided ...
Read More »St. Louis County sees dwindling number of municipalities
St. Louis County is seeing its number of municipalities drop after a village dissolved in April and several are poised to fold in the near future. The number of St. Louis County municipalities fell to 88 when Mackenzie residents decided ...
Read More »Appeals court tosses $55M talc verdict
The Court of Appeals Eastern District on Friday threw out a $55 million St. Louis jury verdict for an out-of-state plaintiff whose ovarian cancer allegedly was linked to talcum powder. The ruling marks the latest large verdict against Johnson & ...
Read More »Judge cites substantial progress in Ferguson reforms
The federal judge overseeing a reform agreement between Ferguson and the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday that she has seen substantial progress in efforts to eliminate bias in the St. Louis suburb’s law-enforcement system. U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry ...
Read More »Court finds state rep not entitled to relief
State Rep. Courtney Allen Curtis of Berkeley has lost his last bid to be included on the ballot for a state senate race. On Monday, the Missouri Supreme Court unanimously affirmed a lower court judgment refusing to order the Missouri ...
Read More »St. Louis to end prosecution of low-level marijuana crimes
St. Louis prosecutors will no longer pursue charges for most low-level marijuana offenses, joining their counterparts in some other cities who have opted to redirect their resources toward more serious crimes. Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner said in an interview Wednesday ...
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