April 27 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Civil War general and two-term president Ulysses S. Grant, and his legacy isn’t getting any less complicated. Grant battered the slave-owning South into surrender as President Abraham Lincoln’s top Union general. Yet he owned at least one enslaved person before the war and he tried…
Michael Politte walked out of prison, paroled after nearly two decades behind bars for a crime he says he didn’t commit — the killing of his mother. Politte was released Friday from the Jefferson City Correctional Center, two months after he was granted parole. Now 38, he was just 14 when Rita Politte died in…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Three people, including a young child, are injured after a suspected car thief crashed the vehicle while being chased by police. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the crash happened just before 9 a.m. Friday in St. Louis County. The chase began when officers spotted a Dodge sedan that had been…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A group pushing for a constitutional amendment legalizing adult-use recreational marijuana in Missouri says it has collected more signatures than needed to put the issue on the ballot. But leaders of Legal Missouri 2022 say they want to gather even more signatures before the May 8 deadline. The group announced Tuesday…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, whose ex-wife recently accused him of physical abuse, says he will not drop his political comeback bid for the U.S. Senate. Greitens, who resigned as governor in 2018 following a sex scandal, had been a frontrunner in the crowded Republican contest to replace retiring GOP Sen.…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis judge dismissed murder charges against two women because of delays by prosecutors in providing reports to their defense attorneys. The judge dismissed murder and robbery charges Wednesday against 32-year-old Rachel Nixon, of Webster Groves, and 41-year-old Karen Ann Quinn, of St. Louis. They were among four people charged…
FLORISSANT, Mo. (AP) — A 54-year-old St. Louis County man who shot his supervisor after being fired from a child care center has been sentenced to life in prison. Christopher Owens of Florissant was sentenced Wednesday in the January 2021 death of 60-year-old Brantley Tate at Marygrove Child Center in Florissant. Owens pleaded guilty to…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has sentenced two men and a woman from Missouri to several weeks in jail for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg sentenced Emily Hernandez, of Sullivan,…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has reached an agreement with the Missouri Office of Disciplinary Counsel in which she acknowledges that she made mistakes in her handling of the prosecution of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens but won’t face any severe penalties for those mistakes. The “joint stipulation” agreement was…
PUXICO, Mo. (AP) — Two weak earthquakes rumbled in southeast Missouri over the weekend. Television station KFVS reports that the U.S. Geological Survey recorded both earthquakes Sunday evening near Puxico in rural Wayne County, just north of the Missouri Bootheel. The survey says the first was about 7 miles northwest of Puxico and registered a…