Law & Order

Mark and Patricia McCloskey both admitted to misdemeanor charges. They had to pay fines and surrender their weapons.

A three-judge panel from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a federal judge’s decision last year that blocked Missouri from enforcing a 2019 law that banned most abortions at eight weeks or because a fetus has Down syndrome.

Defense attorneys successfully removed the lone Black juror from the panel after he said his cousin is in prison.

At around 4:25, the Washington University authorities said the "person in question has been located and there is no active threat related to this incident"

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled the "paycheck protection" law, which was approved in 2018 and contained exceptions for police and other public safety unions, was unconstitutional.

"It’s so many families out there that are suffering, and we’re not getting any closure,” one community member said.

A ban on chokeholds, expanded police background checks and higher pay for most county sheriffs are in the bipartisan, compromise bill.

It’s been more than six years since Michael Brown’s killing made St. Louis the epicenter of the most promising civil rights movement since the 1960s. Yet despite stacks of studies and seemingly unprecedented public support for change, St. Louis has not seen a single substantive victory for police reform, thanks in large part to an influential police union and a larger police apparatus that has stymied accountability.

Barton became the first female chief of the department a year ago.

The $4 million in savings would be directed toward victims services, affordable housing, homeless services and a legal department to prosecute civil rights violations.