A jury has sided with a Missouri State Highway Patrol sergeant accused of suppressing exculpatory evidence in the case of Brad Jennings, who was convicted of killing his wife and later found to have been wrongfully convicted. On Feb. 25, ...

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A federal appeals court affirmed the dismissal of a civil rights suit by a former Missouri Highway Patrol sergeant who spoke out against the patrol after a man drowned while in custody. Randy Henry had sued eleven members of the ...

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A former Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper who was driving a boat when a handcuffed Iowa man fell out and drowned in 2014 has dismissed three lawsuits he filed over losing his law enforcement license. Anthony Piercy filed to voluntarily ...

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A motorist’s brief crossing of a fog line on Interstate 70 was enough to justify a traffic stop that led to his conviction for possession of a controlled substance, the Missouri Supreme Court has ruled. In a 5-2 ruling on ...

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Prosecutors charged a southwest Missouri man Wednesday with second-degree murder, alleging he killed his wife in 2015 by hitting her in the head with a hammer and strangling her before stowing the body in a freezer at a storage unit. ...

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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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A Missouri appeals court has overturned a ruling denying the release of records relating to the 1994 shooting death of a Missouri State Highway Patrolman, finding that federal law does not preempt the Missouri Sunshine Law in the case. A ...

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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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