Officer Jason Stockley arrested, charged with 2011 shooting where defendant can be heard saying he’s “going to kill this (expletive deleted), don’t you know it.” A disgraced former St. Louis police officer has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder for fatally shooting Anthony Lamar Smith – an incident …
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A former St. Louis police officer Thomas Carroll, 52, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to beating a handcuffed suspect. He acknowledged that he had thrown the suspect, Michael Waller against the wall and punched him in the torso. He denied the accusation that he had stuck a gun in Waller’s mouth to threaten …
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Proposed Amendment House Joint Resolution 98, which would ban abortion permanently in the Missouri Constitution Insists fetuses be afforded ‘constitutional protections’ That awkward moment when a male lawmaker lectures women that it his duty “as a former embryo” to strip abortion rights from women who don’t know any better. Well, …
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Marty L. Rainey, the former Gasconade County, Missouri deputy in Set. Genevieve County jail for multiple state and federal charges alleging he sexually assaulted several women, one of whom was underage, was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. Ste. Genevieve County Sheriff’s Major Jason Schott said the Missouri State …
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A group of Donald Trump supporters over the weekend has started calling for volunteers to join a militia named Lion’s Guard, whose aim is to protect voters against “violent far-left agitators.” The rallying cry comes following mass demonstrations in Chicago which forced Trump to cancel his rally Friday, and tense …
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The Missouri House approved a measure Wednesday with enough approval to override a gubernatorial veto. The bill HB 1370 would require two parent notification before a minor can have a legal abortion. Currently minors seeking abortion in Missouri must have written consent from one parent, but were this bill to pass, …
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Republicans in Missouri’s state senate have broken a nearly 40-hour Democratic filibuster and voted to pass an anti-gay bill that would legally protect persons and organizations actively opposed to same-sex marriage. The GOP state senate passed the bill, Senate Joint Resolution 39 (SJR 39), with an overwhelming 23-9 vote Wednesday …
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A former sheriff’s deputy in eastern Missouri has been indicted on federal charges and will stand trial for sexually abusing four women, civil rights violations, and enticing a minor into prostitution, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in St. Louis announced Friday. Marty Rainey, 52, could be facing life in prison. The …
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The U.S. government and Attorney General Loretta Lynch are tired of waiting on Ferguson to clean up its police department. Today the feds filed a lawsuit against the Missouri City for unconstitutional police misconduct after the Ferguson City Council changed the terms of a deal it had been negotiating with the …
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