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An alarming string of deaths inside St. Louis County’s jail led to a slew of changes, and county leaders believe the changes are paying off. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that it has been nearly six months since 31-year-old Daniel ...

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In mid-2016, even with unemployment falling and the economy growing modestly, James Bullard, head of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, was concerned. Months earlier, with Bullard’s support, the Fed had raised rates for the first time in seven years. ...

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When Bob Rule fell off a third-floor balcony a month after he turned 21, he knew as soon as he hit the ground something bad had happened. In fact, two of his lower vertebrae had broken, leaving him a quadriplegic ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court is preparing to hear arguments on whether abortion is an appropriate subject for lawmakers to address in an appropriations bill. The arguments, set for the morning of Dec. 10, stem from state lawmakers’ decision in 2018 ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court split 4-3 on whether a quadriplegic man was bound by an arbitration agreement that the person to whom he gave power of attorney had signed when admitting him to a nursing home. In its Nov. 19 ...

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Authorities have arrested a southwest Missouri man who is suspected of killing his wife about four years ago and then stowing her body in a freezer in a storage unit. Larry Dinwiddie, 57, hasn’t yet been charged but was jailed ...

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It is possible to change the police culture in St. Louis County, which was on the losing end of a $20 million jury award to a gay officer who claimed he had been discriminated against, but experts say changing such ...

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A Jackson County judge appeared to be on the verge of approving a partial settlement in a wrongful-death case brought by the family of a slain Kansas City lawyer, until a last-minute dispute on Nov. 21 derailed the proceedings. According ...

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The full Court of Appeals Southern District split on whether a Jasper County judge should have terminated a woman’s parental rights to her autistic daughter and allowed the girl’s stepmother to adopt her. Four judges held that the weight of ...

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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, city leaders and police chiefs have proposed a three-pronged plan to fight gun violence that includes keeping firearms from minors, domestic abusers and violent offenders. St. Louis, Kansas City and Springfield all have experienced spikes in ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court has disbarred a Crane attorney in a case in which the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel had sought only a one-year suspension. The court entered its order disbarring John Dale Wiley on Nov. 19. In March, ...

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