ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) – A suburban St. Louis woman accused of killing a man to shift attention away from herself in another killing has pleaded not guilty. Pamela Hupp of O’Fallon, Missouri, entered the plea Monday. She’s charged with first-degree murder in the August death of 33-year-old Louis Gumpenberger. Trial is set for October.…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – A federal magistrate has ruled former U.S. Congressman Aaron Schock will be tried this summer on federal corruption charges. Magistrate Judge Tom Schanzle-Haskins on Tuesday set the July 11 date for Schock’s trial on fraud, filing a false tax return, theft of government funds and falsification of Federal Election Commission filings…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – St. Louis’ prosecutor has asked a judge to appoint state prosecutors to the retrial of a man once condemned for his alleged role in the deaths of two sisters pushed from an abandoned Mississippi River bridge. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Jennifer Joyce’s chief prosecutor argued Wednesday to Circuit Judge…
VERSAILLES, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri state trooper charged in the death of an Iowa man who drowned while in his custody is scheduled for trial this summer. The Kansas City Star reports (http://bit.ly/2fjtLYp ) a July 10 trial was set Monday for Trooper Anthony Piercy. He is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death…
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) – A military judge is delaying the trial of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. Army Col. Jeffery Nance decided to push the trial back to May 2017 during a pretrial hearing Monday at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. The trial had been scheduled…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A judge has granted a six-month extension for the new trial for Reginald Clemons, who has spent more than 20 years on death row in the deaths of two sisters who were pushed from an abandoned Mississippi River bridge in St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that St. Louis Circuit…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A judge has granted a venue change for a Mexican national accused of killing a Missouri man and four others in Kansas, ordering the Missouri trial to be held in St. Louis. A judge in mid-Missouri’s Montgomery County signed off Thursday on the venue change for 40-year-old Pablo Serrano-Vitorino. Serrano-Vitorino is…
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) – The woman who had sex with Hulk Hogan on video testified that she didn’t know their encounter was being filmed and said she was very upset that her then-husband had recorded the encounter. The jury in the Hulk Hogan civil trial on Wednesday saw Heather Cole, the ex-wife of radio…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Seven months after the man known as the “Rose Man” was killed in a hit-and-run accident, a St. Louis man is charged in the crime. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that first-degree involuntary manslaughter charges were filed Wednesday against Antonio Cooper. He is jailed on $150,000 cash-only bond and does not…
BALTIMORE (AP) – Jurors deliberating the fate of an officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray have asked the judge for a copy of a transcript from a witness, but the judge has refused to give it to them. The jury made the request Wednesday during the panel’s third day of deliberations in the…