A Congressional committee held hearings on the riot and blamed manipulative industrialists, a corrupt city government and the "savagery" of the white mob on July 2, 1917.
A former small-town Missouri police chief charged in the overdose death of his ex-girlfriend's brother was acquitted Tuesday of murder but found guilty of several drug charges.
Gov. Mike Kehoe sat down with the Post-Dispatch on Tuesday alongside police Chief Robert Tracy and board president Chris Saracino to talk about the first year of the takeover.
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