Rebecca Rivas
Multimedia Reporter | Missouri IndependentRebecca Rivas is a multimedia reporter who covers Missouri's cannabis industry. A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, she has been reporting in Missouri since 2001, including more than a decade as senior reporter and video producer at the St. Louis American, the nation’s leading African-American newspaper.
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The newly-created position will work to ensure social and economic equity requirements of Missouri’s new marijuana law are met
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Judge David Mason says he’ll hold a hearing to announce his decision but has not yet set a date.
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A 2021 state law carved out a narrow role the attorney general’s office can play in innocence claims filed by local prosecutors.
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Dwight Warren, who served in the St. Louis Circuit Attorneys Office when Johnson was convicted in 1995, defended how he handled the case
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James Howard, who is serving a life sentence, testified Monday that he killed Marcus Boyd in 1994 — not Lamar Johnson.
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Missouri has the 8th highest maternal deaths in the country. Pre-filed bill would extend postpartum care for low-income women.
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On the first day of prefiling, both state Democrat and Republican legislators proposed measures to increase school security.
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Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem denied the city’s claims that the 2021 state law bolstering protections for police under investigation for misconduct was unconstitutional.
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The newly-formed Detention Facilities Oversight Board will continue to review complaints of alleged misconduct in the jails. The board has the power to issue subpoenas to witnesses or production of documents, as well as be granted access to city detention facilities upon request.
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A 2021 state law allows prosecutors to correct wrongful convictions, gives power to attorney general to intervene.
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Court decision marks the final step in four-year ethics probe into St. Louis circuit attorney’s actions during the investigation of former Gov. Eric Greitens.
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The lawsuit was filed on the eighth anniversary of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson.