A Missouri man has been arrested in the slaying of his employer in Kansas City, Kansas, after a standoff with police. According to authorities, the FBI and police took the man into custody around 5:30 p.m. Thursday for the killing ...
Read More »St. Louis mayor nominates 7 for police oversight board
St. Louis’ mayor has nominated seven candidates for an eventual civilian oversight board that will review complaints against the city’s police. Mayor Francis Slay’s office says the candidates were chosen from a pool of nearly 50 hopefuls for the board. ...
Read More »Missouri man gets 20 years in prison for making child porn
A man who prosecutors say admitted while applying for a Missouri State Highway Patrol job that he had had sexual contact with several underage girls was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison. Cedric Lovejoy, 29, of Plato, was undergoing ...
Read More »Hepatitis increasingly goes hand in hand with heroin abuse
Public health agencies and drug treatment centers nationwide are scrambling to battle an explosive increase in cases of hepatitis C, a scourge they believe stems at least in part from a surge in intravenous heroin use. In response, authorities are ...
Read More »Woman sues St. Louis archdiocese, alleging sex abuse
A woman claims in a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of St. Louis that she was sexually abused by a former coach at her Roman Catholic high school. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1J14cJ7) reports the woman filed the suit last week ...
Read More »A year after Michael Brown’s death, Ferguson has changed
A year ago, Ferguson, Missouri, was a mostly quiet working-class suburban town. The uneasy relationship between its growing black population and its mostly white police force barely registered in local headlines. Everything changed on Aug. 9, 2014, when a white ...
Read More »Mother of Joplin man sues over 2013 jail suicide
The mother of a Joplin man who claims her son’s suicide in a Carthage jail was captured on video surveillance has filed a federal civil lawsuit accusing the police department and the city of negligence. Charles Roderique, 26, was being ...
Read More »Councilman: Federal reform plan could bankrupt Ferguson
As the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death nears, a Ferguson city councilman says the U.S. Justice Department’s proposal to reform policing and municipal courts in Ferguson could bankrupt the St. Louis suburb. Councilman Brian Fletcher didn’t say exactly what parts ...
Read More »Investor wins $6.9 million verdict against Fidelity National Title
A federal jury awarded nearly $7 million to a Lake of the Ozarks property investor after finding a title insurer’s handling of a claim caused the investor to lose out on potential profits. The investor, Captiva Lake Investments, also is ...
Read More »Taking bow for summer, Congress leaves clashes for fall
Drained and divided, the Senate is joining the House in summer recess as Congress sets course for an autumn of showdowns over Iran, spending and Planned Parenthood. Senators left town Wednesday, a week after the House began a break that ...
Read More »Police suspect Missouri woman died from cosmetic injections
Police in the St. Louis suburb of Edmundson suspect that a woman may have died from complications of receiving illegal, cosmetic injections into her buttocks at a hotel room. Edmundson Police Chief Miklos Hurocy says investigators of 22-year-old Daysha Phillips’s ...
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