Children in St. Louis have been the victim of homicides at 10 times the national rate for decades, according to a newspaper’s analysis of FBI data. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Friday that the city’s child homicide rate is far greater ...

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A Springfield, Missouri, defense attorney has been charged with paying a witness to lie on the stand in a murder case. Adam Woody, 38, was charged Friday with perjury and two counts of tampering with a witness during a hearing ...

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A Springfield, Missouri, defense attorney has been charged with paying a witness to lie on the stand in a murder case. Adam Woody, 38, was charged Friday with perjury and two counts of tampering with a witness during a hearing ...

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The Court of Appeals Western District ruled Sept. 24 that a northwestern Missouri man isn’t subject to life on the state’s sex-offender registry just because his crime has been renamed. Danny Joe Dixon, then 47, pleaded guilty in 2003 to ...

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A Missouri woman and her late husband, who was killed by the suspect in four Kansas murders, will be honored by the Missouri State Highway Patrol, which said their actions during a confrontation with the suspect protected the public safety ...

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A Missouri woman and her late husband, who was killed by the suspect in four Kansas murders, will be honored by the Missouri State Highway Patrol, which said their actions during a confrontation with the suspect protected the public safety ...

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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is sending highway patrol troopers and other state workers to St. Louis as part of an effort to fight the surge of violent crime that has included the killings of more than a dozen children in ...

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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is sending highway patrol troopers and other state workers to St. Louis as part of an effort to fight the surge of violent crime that has included the killings of more than a dozen children in ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District said Aug. 20 that the head of the Missouri State Highway Patrol wasn’t authorized to fire an officer after a man drowned while in his custody. The court, affirming an earlier ruling by ...

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A federal appeals court has rejected a political activist’s arguments that a Missouri law allowing random inspections of commercial vehicles without probable cause is unconstitutional. On July 26, a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled ...

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Missouri’s former public safety director oversaw $1.25 million in payments to a charitable foundation he had ties with and he logged vacation time, including trips to the Daytona 500, as work time, according to a state audit released this week. ...

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