Assistant city police chief gets $162K to settle discrimination lawsuit
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The city of St. Louis will pay a St. Louis assistant police chief nearly $162,000 to…
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Plan to set up prison nursery clears legislature on final day of session
Infants born to women in prison may soon get to remain with their mothers for their first 18 months, under…
Move to decriminalize fentanyl drug testing strips gains no traction in Missouri legislature
Even as the spread of synthetic opioids such as fentanyl has brought a stunning rise in drug overdose deaths, a…
Grand jurors label Gardner’s actions ‘reprehensible’
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Members of a grand jury that indicted an investigator in the criminal case against former Missouri…
St. Louis city, Jackson County get OK to challenge controversial gun law
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that St. Louis and Jackson County may challenge the constitutionality of a law…
Missouri Supreme Court reaffirms ruling on 2015 law capping revenue from court fines
After the 2014 protests in Ferguson, the U.S. Department of Justice found that city’s police department and municipal court had intentionally worked…
Federal attempts to legalize marijuana flail, even as public support grows
Across the country, attitudes toward cannabis are becoming more permissive and accepting, but partisan gridlock in Congress virtually ensures that…
State offering $49.5M to settle overtime claims for corrections officers
Missouri is offering Department of Corrections employees routinely shorted on their pay a $49.5 million settlement to drop a lawsuit scheduled for…
Murder, robbery charges dismissed for lack of data; circuit attorney’s office blames federal agency
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis judge dismissed on Wednesday murder and robbery charges against two women because the…
St. Louis man gets 10 years in prison for coronavirus aid fraud scheme
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis man with a long history of stealing and fraud convictions was sentenced Tuesday…
Missouri trio gets jail for roles in Capitol insurrection
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge in Washington sentenced on Monday two men and a woman from Missouri to…
DOJ rule cracks down on untraceable firearms known as ‘ghost guns’
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced on Monday the Department of Justice’s plan to regulate untraceable firearms known as ghost…
Gardner unlikely to lose law license over claims stemming from Greitens probe
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner will probably face a reprimand, but not lose her license to practice law, as…
Missouri’s top court declines to hear Gardner’s appeal in Greitens records case
It will be up to a St. Louis judge to decide how long Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has to produce…
Gardner to face disciplinary panel over claims stemming from Greitens probe
Three years ago this month, a dozen police officers raided the office of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner. They…
Director chosen to oversee setting up of Missouri’s prescription drug monitoring program
A Missouri task force assigned with overseeing the establishment of a statewide prescription drug monitoring program has hired a former…