Missouri Senate bill would crack down on road-blocking protesters
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri protesters who repeatedly block traffic without permission could face felony charges under a bill given…
Police Accountability
Black Lives Matter opens up about its finances
NEW YORK (AP) — The foundation widely seen as a steward of the Black Lives Matter movement says it took…
Jail tension ‘boiled over’ amid COVID-19 worries
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Detainees have complained for decades about conditions inside St. Louis’ jails, but when COVID-19 worries were…
‘I am a child!’ Pepper spray reflects policing of Black children
The 9-year-old Black girl sat handcuffed in the backseat of a police car, distraught and crying for her father as…
Appeals court sides with journalists tear-gassed in Ferguson
On the fifth day of the Ferguson protests in August 2014, St. Charles County sent their SWAT team in armored…
Killings surged in 2020 with pandemic, protests
(AP) — Killings rose dramatically across the U.S. last year, and a study released Monday suggests the coronavirus pandemic and…
Missouri moves to tighten police accountability
Brian Williams grew up in Ferguson, where Michael Brown Jr.’s shooting death sparked a national movement for police accountability in…
Murdered children and the selfishness of St. Louis
Say their names. Dmyah Fleming was 7. She liked to help her grandmother make cookies, especially with pink frosting. Kevin…
Effort to stop charging 17-year-olds as adults stalls
Khadijah Wilson faced a bully during her junior year at Francis Howell North High School in St. Charles. She told…
Schmitt denies involvement in call for Capitol riot
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt denies any knowledge of a robocall by an arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association…
Racial double standard clear in Capitol insurrection
NEW YORK (AP) — Black Lives Matter protests, 2020: Overwhelming force from law enforcement in dozens of cities. Chemical dispersants.…
Virus aid, police reform dominate new U.S. laws for 2021
Responses to the coronavirus pandemic and police brutality dominated legislative sessions in 2020, leading to scores of new laws that…
The year that was: 2020 in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS – It looked as if St. Louis was starting just another year, when news came that a mysterious…
Study proposes changes in city police
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S-d0HQN6nk&w=560&h=315] CITY HALL – A national consulting firm is proposing major changes in the city police designed to improve…
Judge dismisses Gardner from Mark McCloskey’s case
(AP) — A judge disqualified the St. Louis prosecutor and her office on Thursday from the case involving Mark McCloskey,…
Judge reinstates St. Louis County’s 2015 court reform provisions
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — A judge has reinstated parts of a 2015 court reform law spurred by protests after the…