Rachel Lippmann
Justice ReporterRachel Lippmann covers courts, public safety and city politics for St. Louis Public Radio. (She jokingly refers to them as the “nothing ever happens beats.”) She joined the NPR Member station in her hometown in 2008, after spending two years in Lansing covering the Michigan Capitol and various other state political shenanigans for NPR Member stations there. Though she’s a native St. Louisan, part of her heart definitely remains in the Mitten. (And no, she’s not going to tell you where she went to high school.)
Rachel has an undergraduate degree from the Medill School of Journalism, and a master’s in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois at Springfield. When she’s not busy pursuing the latest scoop, you can find her mentoring her Big Brothers Big Sisters match, hitting the running and biking paths in south St. Louis, catching the latest sporting event on TV, playing with every dog she possibly can, or spending time with the great friends she’s met in more than nine years in this city.
Rachel’s on Twitter @rlippmann. Even with 240 characters, spellings are still phonetic.
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Republican Scott Fitzpatrick said his staff has tried to contact Gardner for months, but "it appears she has willfully evaded our many efforts to obtain information that only she can provide."
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Greenberg had been on the job for five months when a former student opened fire at the campus shared by Central Visual and Performing Arts and Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience.
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Total enrollment increased by more than 3,000 during his tenure.
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Copies of the guide are available at the Law Library Association of St. Louis downtown and at various public library branches in St. Louis and St. Louis County. It’s also available online.
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The rules say commercial operators must have a federal pilot’s license and a business license. There are also restrictions on where they can fly. SMS Novel, a company based in the Washington, D.C., area, wanted to fly drones in the Gravois Park neighborhood to enhance public safety.
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Thirteen people were killed and more than 1,200 were injured in traffic crashes in St. Louis in the first three months of 2023, according to Trailnet, a pedestrian and bike advocacy group.
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The public defender in St. Louis County used funding from the MacArthur Foundation to pay for two attorneys who handle nothing but initial appearances in nonviolent felony cases.
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Mayor Tishaura Jones said she signed the order to allow the Board of Aldermen to move forward on legislation reauthorizing the use of red-light and speed cameras in the city.
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About 200 upperclassmen in Parkway North’s government and law and crime classes will listen to oral arguments in a criminal appeal, then participate in a question-and-answer session with the judges and attorneys afterward.
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The speech, delivered Wednesday to a joint session of the Missouri General Assembly, is the 50th State of the Judiciary address.
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St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore’s predecessor, Kim Gardner, filed a similar motion just days before she left office. Gore withdrew the motion in June to conduct his own review of the case.
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The water department had just $2 million left in reserves before the rate hikes kicked in. They are expected to raise a combined $33 million.