A disbarred lawyer who admitted taking $325,000 from a client’s trust account now faces felony stealing charges for his actions. Joe T. Buerkle was a longtime attorney in Cape Girardeau and most recently had been a partner at the Limbaugh ...

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The national media, civil rights groups and other spectators waiting to see how a small-town jury would handle the case of a young black woman accused of assaulting white police officers never got to find out. Nearly three years after ...

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Nearly three years after an incident that started with a dispute in a Wal-Mart checkout line, Heather Ellis reached a plea agreement Friday evening after jurors had been considering her case for about two and a half hours.

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