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A Missouri prosecutor has announced plans to seek the death penalty against a Kansas City man charged with fatally shooting a police officer during a traffic stop.
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Read More »Rural Missouri sheriff, 2 deputies arrested in kidnap plot
A rural Missouri sheriff and two deputies are jailed and facing charges accusing them of helping a man in a parental kidnapping plot.
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Read More »Western District says juvenile sentencing law applies retroactively
The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District declined to order a more lenient sentence for a man convicted of committing murder when he was 14.
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Read More »Woman accused in dismemberment slaying attacks her attorney
A woman accused in a grisly killing and dismemberment case in Wisconsin has attacked her attorney during a court hearing, moments after a judge agreed to delay her trial.
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Read More »St. Louis man freed from prison after murder case dismissed
A 28-year-old St. Louis man who spent six years in jail on a murder conviction has been freed after prosecutors dismissed the case against him.
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Read More »Ex-Missouri police chief indicted in drug overdose death
The former police chief of a small northeast Missouri town is facing second-degree murder charges after his girlfriend's brother died of a drug overdose in his home last year.
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Read More »Judge orders longest prison term so far in Gov. Whitmer plot
A Delaware trucker described as an architect of the conspiracy to kidnap Michigan’s governor was sentenced Wednesday to more than 19 years in prison — the longest term yet given to anyone convicted in the plot.
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Read More »Supreme Court considers if and when counsel abandoned man
The Missouri Supreme Court will determine if and when a man’s counsel abandoned him after he was charged with driving while intoxicated in two counties, after hearing oral arguments Oct. 25.
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Read More »Kansas City officer pleads guilty to assaulting Black teen
A Kansas City, Missouri, police officer who kneed a Black 15-year-old in the neck and pushed his face into the ground pleaded guilty Thursday to third-degree assault and lost his law enforcement license.
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Read More »Supreme Court opinion didn’t change analysis of Missouri ‘crime of violence’
Following a recent U.S. Supreme Court case, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Oct. 17 reaffirmed a ruling that defines what constitutes a crime of violence under Missouri law.
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Read More »Small-town Missouri police chief charged in overdose death
The police chief in a small Missouri town has been charged with felony drug crimes after his girlfriend's brother was found dead from an apparent overdose in the police chief’s apartment.
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