Law & Order

Scott Anders became acting director of the St. Louis County Department of Justice in October, after the retirement of Doug Burris. He is the department’s fourth leader in two years.

The officers say they work for less than other area cops to patrol streets that are more dangerous.

St. Louis attorneys and activists say judges are often denying defendants bond entirely after the Missouri Supreme Court in 2019 made it harder for courts to detain people on cash bail pretrial. “It’s a classic case of the system recalibrating and in some ways achieving many of the same results,” said Blake Strode, executive director of civil rights law firm ArchCity Defenders.

Jackson and St. Louis counties are asking to appeal a Cole County judge's ruling that said local health departments in Missouri cannot issue health orders. Attorney General Eric Schmitt declined to appeal the case.

Kenneth Scott McKee and two others face criminal charges in Stone County, Missouri, for their role in a 2018 sinking of a duck boat on Table Rock Lake that killed 17 people.

St. Louis County prosecutors have charged a 30-year-old man in the shootings at two MetroBus drivers late last week.

The City of St. Louis has asked a judge to strike down a wide-ranging bill that boosts protections for police under investigation for misconduct.

The pipeline is operating under a temporary certificate that expires Dec. 13.

"The Court's confidence in Strickland's conviction is so undermined that it cannot stand," the judge wrote. Strickland's wrongful imprisonment for nearly 43 years is among the country's longest.