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Deputy Steve Chalmers claims Sheriff Vernon Betts demoted him and used racial slurs because Chalmers didn’t support him in the last two elections. A recorded phone call allegedly captures Betts disparaging the deputy for not supporting him politically.
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U.S. Senate candidate Mark McCloskey and his wife, Patricia, have filed a lawsuit against Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush and state Rep. Rasheen Aldridge for participating in protests that passed the McCloskeys’ home.
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St. Louis will pay homage to hundreds of enslaved Black Missourians who fought for their freedom with the help of local lawyers, jurors and judges. Their lawsuits filed in the 1800s are known as “freedom suits.”
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In its 25 years, St. Louis drug treatment court has gone from being perceived as a way to keep drug convictions from marring otherwise clean records to helping the city’s most vulnerable.
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St. Louis Circuit Court will honor the men and women who filed freedom suits in St. Louis — and the lawyers who worked on them.
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Robin Steinberg, CEO of the Bail Project, and Mike Milton, founder and CEO of the Freedom Community Center, discuss the work done by the Bail Project in its three years here — and explain why its St. Louis office is closing.
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Several years ago, judges at the St. Louis Circuit Court came up with a simple idea: get everyone who handles criminal cases — from prosecutors to public…
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Organizers of the LouFest music festival have filed suit against one of its contractors, alleging that the owner of sound-and-lighting vendor Logic…
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On Nov. 7, 2000, Missourians elected incumbent Democratic Gov. Mel Carnahan, who had died in a plane crash three weeks earlier. He defeated his Republican…
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A big change arrives at the St. Louis circuit court today - the start of mandatory e-filing.As of today, clerks will no longer accept paper filings for…