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Two STL prosecutors say Christopher Dunn is innocent. He’s still in prison.

2 years 1 month ago
On Feb. 7, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore filed a motion to vacate Chris Dunn’s murder conviction. “The eyewitness recantations alone are enough to show clear and convincing evidence of actual innocence in this case,” Gore said. In an interview from prison, Dunn reflects on what this development means in his decades-long effort to prove his innocence. Also joining the conversation are Dunn's wife, Kira, and Rachel Weston, managing attorney at the Midwest Innocence Project.

St. Louis Man Will Serve 30 Days for Letting Overdose Victim’s Body Rot

2 years 1 month ago
A St. Louis jury this afternoon sentenced a 48-year-old man to one month in city jail for allowing the body of an acquaintance who overdosed in his Dutchtown apartment to rot for five days before abandoning the corpse near a back alley. In her closing arguments, prosecutor Jessica Vestal said that David Thompson took the body of Glenn Williams and "dumped him like he was a piece of trash." On March 30, 2023, the 47-year-old Williams died of a fentanyl overdose in Thompson's living room, just one day after the two men first encountered each other.
Ryan Krull

To You, I Go

2 years 1 month ago

To You, I Go (2023) is Jessica Page’s visual love letter to St. Louis. Although St. Louis is rarely romanticized, Page aims to showcase the softest purest side of her […]

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Rachel Huffman

U.S. House passes $468 billion spending package that would stave off shutdown

2 years 1 month ago

WASHINGTON — U.S. House lawmakers cast a broadly bipartisan vote Wednesday to approve a six-bill government funding package, marking one of the few consequential votes on major legislation that chamber has taken since Republicans took the majority more than a year ago. The $468 billion package includes half of the annual spending bills for the […]

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Jennifer Shutt

Retailers Selling Thousands Of Identical, Easily-Hacked ‘Smart’ Doorbells

2 years 1 month ago
As we’ve noted for a very long time, sometimes “dumb” tech is often the smarter option. In the rush to connect every conceivable technology and device to the internet (while seeing ever-improving revenues), “smart technology” companies routinely cut corners. And the first sacrifice usually made (behind customer service) tends to be consumer privacy and device […]
Karl Bode