St. Louis leaders call for ban on assault rifles following school shooting
The first time St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones publicly spoke about the tragic shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts…
Crime
Shooter in Sweetie Pie’s murder for hire gets 32 years
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Relatives confronted the man who fatally shot a former star of the St. Louis-based reality TV…
Costs of incarceration rise as inflation squeezes inmates, families
Across the nation, prison commissaries are raising prices on items that many consider basic necessities — from deodorant to fresh…
St. Louis judge orders civilian oversight of city jails – but not of police work – to continue
A St. Louis judge issued an order Tuesday walking back part of his decision to block a city ordinance that expanded civilian…
Parson won’t issue blanket pardons for marijuana offenses, he says
While announcing a plan to pardon those with prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession, President Joe Biden urged governor’s to…
Prosecutors’ biggest roadblock in wrongful conviction cases? Missouri’s attorney general
Up until last year, if elected prosecutors believed a person was wrongfully convicted, there wasn’t anything they could do about…
Biden to pardon all federal offenses for simple marijuana possession, review criminalization
President Joe Biden has announced executive actions that would pardon thousands of people with prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession. Biden…
Life sentence for killer of retired St. Louis police captain
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 26-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for killing a retired St. Louis…
U.S. failed to properly count deaths of people in prisons and jails, Senate report says
The Department of Justice did not properly count nearly 1,000 deaths of incarcerated people in jails and prisons, according to…
Missouri Court of Appeals revives ‘old school’ self-defense law in resisting arrest case
Two Newton County sheriff deputies were dispatched to a trailer park north of Neosho to evict a man and his…
‘Sweetie Pie’ star found guilty in nephew’s shooting death
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal jury convicted on Friday a former star of the St. Louis-based reality TV show…
Congressional panel debates federal role in preventing youth incarceration
Members of a U.S. House Education and Labor Committee panel recently questioned experts and leaders of youth rehabilitation programs about…
Summoning inspiration from solitary, Missouri resident wins PEN America prison writing award
Alex Tretbar scratched Lou Reed lyrics into the concrete “rhomboid exoskeleton” of an Oregon jail’s solitary confinement hole, then found…
Trial begins in killing of Miss Sweetie Pie’s grandson
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A murder-for-hire trial involving former stars of the reality TV show “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” got…
St. Louis prosecutor Gardner asks court to free Lamar Johnson after nearly 30 years in prison
It’s been three years since Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner asked a St. Louis circuit judge to set aside the 1995…
Missouri Supreme Court fines Gardner $750, citing misconduct in Greitens investigation
The Missouri Supreme Court reprimanded St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner Tuesday and fined her $750, finding that she violated professional misconduct rules…