Yellowing court records from the arrests of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and others at the dawn of the modern civil rights era are being preserved and digitized after being discovered, folded and wrapped in rubber bands, in a ...
Read More »Greitens won’t be charged for finance report on donor list
A Missouri prosecutor said Friday that he won’t be filing any charges against Gov. Eric Greitens for the way his campaign reported the receipt of a charity donor list used for political fundraising. The decision by Cole County Prosecutor Mark ...
Read More »Abortion suit won’t have easy path to US Supreme Court
Supporters of the nation’s strictest abortion law are hoping a lawsuit filed against the Iowa measure will bring the issue back before the U.S. Supreme Court, however constitutional experts say that’s unlikely because of a legal maneuver by abortion-rights groups. ...
Read More »Prosecutor: Greitens’ lawyers threatened to ‘ruin’ her
The St. Louis prosecutor whose office now finds itself under investigation by police regarding its handling of a criminal case against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens says his attorneys twice threatened to “ruin” her if she didn’t back off investigations of ...
Read More »Suit: Homeless man jailed after trying to eat at Burger King
Emory Ellis, a black homeless man in Boston, was hungry so he went to Burger King one morning in 2015. Instead of breakfast, Ellis got a ride to the police station and more than three months in jail after he ...
Read More »Mueller investigation enters 2nd year, where is it headed?
It was one year ago Thursday when Robert Mueller, the former FBI director, was appointed as special counsel to take over the Justice Department’s investigation into possible coordination between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The 12 months since ...
Read More »Vegas documents show some may remember gunman
Police documents released Wednesday about the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history included reports from at least two people who said a person they believed to be the gunman ranted in the days prior to last October’s Las Vegas ...
Read More »Prosecutor-as-witness move sinks case against Greitens
Attorneys defending Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens in a criminal case used a highly unusual tactic when they sought to the call the prosecutor as a witness while they attacked her handling of the case. The judge made another highly unusual ...
Read More »Lawyer: Guantanamo detainee denied motion to show art
A man accused of helping to plan the Sept. 11 attacks will not be allowed to publicly distribute art he makes in his cell at the Guantanamo Bay detention center after a judge denied a motion asking for Department of ...
Read More »Uber shifts policy for alleged sexual misconduct on service
Uber’s ride-hailing service will give its U.S. passengers and drivers more leeway to pursue claims of sexual misconduct, its latest attempt to shed its reputation for brushing aside bad behavior. The shift announced Tuesday will allow riders and drivers to ...
Read More »Robinson freed after judge slams homicide investigation
A Missouri man convicted of killing of a bar owner in 2000 despite a total lack of physical evidence linking him to the crime has been freed from prison after the state’s top prosecutor decided not to retry him. David ...
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