Clayton-based Emerson and an anonymous donor helped pay for Chief Robert Tracy's consulting gig at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, financial records show.
Police departments across the country are racing into the drone business. Getting in is easier than ever, and cities from Kirkwood to O'Fallon are jumping.
"Mr. Roach will accept his punishment as a challenge to change his life," Roach's lawyer, Nicholas Williams, said. "He hopes other young people see the consequences and take a different path."
Children of a local Amazon employee who died from a 2025 stabbing at its Berkeley warehouse filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the company, its security provider, and the man convicted of the killing.
"He was mistakenly believed to have been a participant but has been fully exonerated," defense attorney Jay Kanzler said of his client. "He had no involvement in any criminal activity."
"We're gonna have to look at a new strategy, I think," said one state rep. "We're going to have to look at child care interests. We're going to have to look at families."