The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District on Tuesday affirmed a trial court’s decision to grant St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch’s motion to dismiss in a case that sought a special prosecutor to investigate his conduct in the ...
Read More »Lawsuit filed over plans near Kansas City’s jazz district
Archie Williams has lived in the Parade Park Homes complex just east of 18th and Vine for 41 years and savors the neighborhood’s proud African-American heritage. Donna Jackson has lived there more than 30 years and now has a daughter ...
Read More »St. Louis police chief questions judges’ accountability
The St. Louis police chief vented online Monday about the city’s judges, saying he believes they are too lenient in cases involving gun crimes and insisting presiding jurists “are accountable to virtually no one.” Chief Sam Dotson — in a ...
Read More »MU law school dean to step down
The dean of the University of Missouri School of Law announced Friday that he will step down in August but will stay on to teach. In an email to faculty provided by the school, Gary Myers said the decision came ...
Read More »Group: Police wrongly threaten homeless, order them to move
The New York Police Department is violating homeless people’s rights by ordering them to “move along” in public places, a civil liberties group said last week in a complaint to the city’s Human Rights Commission. “The NYPD has undertaken a ...
Read More »Missouri GOP attorney general candidate sued over emails
A former Republican state lawmaker has filed a lawsuit seeking to force the University of Missouri to release more emails from associate law professor Josh Hawley, who is facing a tough GOP primary in the campaign for attorney general. Former ...
Read More »Jury sides with plaintiffs in case against Monsanto
A St. Louis jury awarded three plaintiffs a collective $46.5 million in a case alleging Monsanto was negligent in marketing and selling PCBs. The jury voted 10-2 on Wednesday in favor of the plaintiffs following a trial that began at ...
Read More »In Gawker fight, Hogan has billionaire in his corner
Hulk Hogan’s courtroom cage match with Gawker has apparently been bankrolled by a high-tech billionaire with a grudge against the news-and-gossip site. Two months after Hogan won a $140 million invasion-of-privacy verdict against Gawker for posting a sex tape of ...
Read More »Missouri woman accused of embezzling $1.2M from Garmin
A Missouri woman already accused of embezzling more than $300,000 from engineering firm Black & Veatch stole $1.2 million during an earlier job at Garmin International, a new federal indictment alleges. A federal grand jury in Kansas City, Missouri, indicted ...
Read More »Patriots join ‘Deflategate’ fight in court for the 1st time
The New England Patriots joined the latest “Deflategate” appeal to support Tom Brady on Wednesday, taking sides with their star quarterback in court for the first time in his fight against the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell. In an eight-page ...
Read More »Missouri Senate set to scrutinize Planned Parenthood files
A Missouri Senate staffer is set to review Planned Parenthood’s internal records, including procedures for fetal tissue disposal. Republican attorney Todd Scott says he plans to examine the documents Thursday at the office of Planned Parenthood’s attorney. He checked the ...
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