A trial date was set this week for a convicted pedophile accused of raping and killing a 9-year-old Missouri girl in 1993. Earl Webster Cox, 62, was arrested in June, nearly 26 years after Angie Housman’s death. St. Charles County ...
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For James Felder, the question of which presidential candidate to support in the South Carolina primary has never been terribly complicated. The 80-year-old civil rights activist has always backed Joe Biden, appreciative of the eight years he spent as the ...
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Read More »The Supreme Court this week appeared ready to remove an obstacle to construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, with a majority of justices expressing skepticism about a lower court ruling that tossed out a key permit needed for the natural ...
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Read More »A new effort in St. Louis County will make the overdose-reversing antidote naloxone more readily available to the public, in hopes of reducing the high number of opioid overdose deaths in Missouri’s largest county. Democratic County Executive Sam Page announced ...
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Read More »A Missouri woman was sentenced this week to 23 years in prison in the death of her husband whom the defense alleged she stayed with despite the relationship being abusive in part because both of them were struggling with their ...
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Read More »Most former felons in Missouri who were convicted of nonviolent crimes would get their voting rights back sooner under proposals pitched this week in a state Senate committee. Missouri is among 21 states where felons lose the right to vote ...
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After he was involved in a fender bender with a gang member, the Honduran delivery driver was in trouble: The accident wasn’t his fault, but he couldn’t pay the damages, and the other driver threatened to kill him. Fearing for ...
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Read More »A fired Kansas City Public Schools secretary who was among seven employees accused of falsifying attendance data in a bid to help the district regain accreditation said she and her co-workers were following orders from top administrators. Former Central Middle ...
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Read More »Democrats’ desire for dramatic political change has emerged as a driving force in the party’s presidential primary battle, one that extends beyond the progressive wing and presents challenges for candidates running on promises of moderation. In Iowa, New Hampshire and ...
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Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday of rape and sexual assault against two women and was immediately handcuffed and led off to jail, sealing his dizzying fall from powerful Hollywood studio boss to archvillain of the #MeToo movement. The 67-year-old Weinstein ...
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Read More »Frumie Cisner remembers the first time she witnessed a Holocaust survivor picking through trash — how the woman scavenged a box of baked goods from a dumpster in front of a Brooklyn synagogue. “It was heartbreaking,” Cisner said. “You’re not ...
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