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An inmate who escaped from the city jail Sunday was caught and arrested hours later in St. Louis County.

A Florida landlord tied to two dilapidated apartment complexes in north St. Louis County is connected to troubled properties from Memphis to Montgomery.

“A reasonable judge should have known better ... Rough justice does not trump the Constitution.”

Headlines from the Oct. 18, 1926, front page include: Detective on speeding train spies gangster

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One person was seriously injured trying to escape a burning home in St. Louis' Shaw neighborhood Saturday morning.

The raise would bring Chief Robert Tracy's salary to $295,000 — higher than his counterparts in Kansas City, Chicago and New York.

Maurio Thomas, 29, of the Carondelet neighborhood, was charged Friday with two counts of burglary and two counts of sodomy or attempted sodomy.

Terry Webster, Jr., 21, was charged Friday in connection to the shooting death of 43-year-old Ron Banks, of St. Louis.