A judge has ruled that Missouri must provide indigent defendants with counsel within two weeks of their having qualified for an appointed lawyer.
Read More »Missouri bill would delay some public record access
A bill passed by the Missouri House on Thursday would put a pause on open-records requests when public agencies are closed, an attempt to ease pressure on governments during emergencies like the coronavirus pandemic.
Read More »State health director: No plan to move teachers to front of vaccine line
Missouri has no plans to move teachers higher on the list for COVID-19 vaccinations, instead focusing on getting shots to older people and those with serious illnesses, the state’s health director said Thursday.
Read More »Missouri records big increase in traffic fatalities in 2020
Missouri recorded a big jump in fatal traffic crashes last year, despite fewer people being on the road because of the coronavirus pandemic, state highway officials said Thursday.
Read More »Courts eye jury trials amidst bumpy vaccine rollout
A sustained downward trend in COVID-19 cases is buoying hopes that Missouri courts will be able to return to jury trials this spring, despite uncertainty surrounding the availability of COVID-19 vaccines.
Read More »Undercover officer settles suit against St. Louis for $5 million
The City of St. Louis has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit brought against it by a Black police officer who alleged he was assaulted by white officers while working undercover at a protest in 2017.
Read More »Officers denied immunity for ‘severe’ intrusion into home
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Feb. 16 denied qualified immunity for two St. Louis County police officers who entered a home late at night with guns drawn in search of someone who had stiffed his taxi driver.
Read More »Appeals court: Police search was ‘warrantless intrusion’
A federal appeals court panel has ruled that a gun-drawn police search of a St. Louis County home constituted a “severe, warrantless intrusion.”
Read More »Proud Boys suspect’s lawyers blame Trump for Capitol attack
Attorneys for the purported leader of the Kansas City cell of the Proud Boys blamed former President Donald Trump for the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, telling a federal magistrate judge that the five weeks since then “have broken the fever dream.”
Read More »St. Louis jail tensions ‘boiled over’ amid COVID-19 worries
Detainees have complained for decades about conditions inside St. Louis' jails, but when COVID-19 worries were added to the mix, the tension reached a breaking point.
Read More »Kansas City police suggest new strategies for protests
Kansas City police officers would limit their use of tear gas and work to reduce confrontations during public protests under a policy proposed Tuesday by the city's police department.
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