Republican Missouri lawmakers are divided over how far to go with a ballot measure that would make it more difficult for future voters to amend the state constitution.The post Amendments to Missouri Constitution are on the line amid GOP infighting first appeared on Missouri Lawyers Media.
Alabama lawmakers on Thursday advanced legislation that could see librarians prosecuted under the states obscenity law for providing harmful materials to minors, the latest in a wave of bills in Republican-led states targeting library content and decisions.The post Alabama bill could lead to prosecution of librarians first appeared on Missouri Lawyers Media.
U.S. v. Cameron MLW No. 81392/Case No. 23-2839 8 pages U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Gruender, J. Appealed from U.S. District Court, Southern District of Iowa, Rose, J. Frederic Montgomery Brown, of West Des Moines, IA for appellant Joseph Lubben, AUSA, of Des Moines, IA for appelleeThe post Criminal Law: Felon in Possession of Ammunition-Sufficiency of Evidence-Constitutionality of Statute first appeared on Missouri Lawyers Media.
Frees v. Segal MLW No. 81394/Case No. 23-2979 2 pages U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam Appealed from U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota, Magnuson, J.The post Criminal Law: Federal Inmate-Prison Disciplinary Proceeding-Loss of Good Conduct Time first appeared on Missouri Lawyers Media.
Thomas-El v. Francis MLW No. 81420/Case No. 22-3617 4 pages U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Erickson, J. Appealed from U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, Limbaugh, J. Jeff P. Johnson, Jefferson City, MO argued for appellant Tory Dowd Bernsen, Webster Groves, MO argued for appellee.The post Civil Rights: Inmate Action-Deprivation Of Toothpaste-Qualified Immunity first appeared on Missouri Lawyers Media.
Prosecutors charged Wendell Bryant with two counts of stealing a motor vehicle and one count of property damage for the two car thefts.
United Kingdom native Ellie Bentley, who hid from gunfire on Feb. 25 during a shooting near Manchester Road and South Taylor Avenue, is motivated to walk again.
St. Louis Survivors Legal Support has helped over 200 clients for free with the help of 150 volunteer attorneys and 20 volunteer advocates.
Police said Friday evening she has been found.
The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis made the big announcement ahead of their annual dinner Thursday afternoon.
An accused cop killer currently on trial in St. Louis endured years of childhood abuse at the hands of both parents, an upbringing that a forensic psychologist says ultimately led to the August 2020 psychotic episode in which Thomas Kinworthy killed St. Louis police officer Tamarris Bohannon. The prosecution and defense agree on the basic facts of the case. On August 29, 2020, Kinworthy was armed when he ran into a house on Hartford Street in Tower Grove South.
Saint Louis Art Museum will go back to the past this summer with two fan favorites making encore presentations at its beloved Art Hill film series. Those films, Back to the Future and Meet Me in St. Louis, were voted on by fans. The sci-fi comedy classic will be screened on July 12 and the Judy Garland musical on July 19.
An outraged letter signed by more than 100 faculty members, staff and graduate students was delivered at noon today to Washington Universitys administration demanding it stop suppressing peaceful student protests for Palestine. We are writing to express our deep concern at the universitys arbitrary and heavy-handed response to recent student protests against Israels ongoing bombardment and starvation of Gaza, the letter says. Wash U has responded to recent student protests with police presence, including a Pro-Palestine demonstration on April 13 where 12 activists were issued court summons and three were suspended.
An 18-year-old from south city went on a smash-and-grab spree earlier this month, police say, hitting 11 businesses over the course of two consecutive Wednesday nights in April. Police say that on April 10, Leslie James III and two others cruised around in a stolen Hyundai, smashing the windows of the Donut Drive-In in Lindenwood Park, Soulard institutions Mollys and Bogarts, as well as other places, stealing various amounts of money from the businesses. The following Wednesday they did the same thing at the My Marie Caribbean restaurant on Cherokee Street and another business in Benton Park.
My neighbor told me she plans to cut down her tree and my heart stopped. The tree in question is an enormous Japanese maple that covers her yard and spills into my own. In the spring, it splashes a rich red across my bathroom window, and the tree has become such an integral part of my home that I can barely imagine life without it.
More than half the estimated $562 million bond issue proposed to build a new St. Louis County government center would go toward other building projects, including a $22 million renovation of the much-disputed leased county offices at the former Northwest Plaza.
Breckinridge Long wiggled his way into the upper strands of the State Department, and there he was able to carry out clearly what he was made for: to be responsible, through treachery and deception, for the deaths of tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of Jewish people who were trying to immigrate to the United States from countries under German and Italian control during World War II.
A fried chicken restaurant that closed earlier this year has relaunched as a ghost kitchen.
The acquisition of GKN is a return to the Boeing fold. The plant previously was owned and operated by McDonnell Douglas, which merged with Boeing in 1997. The facility then was spun off and sold to GKN Aerospace in 2001.
NASCAR executives, visiting St. Louis Thursday, outlined the business prospects of the auto racing league, which has expanded its presence in the region.