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Missouri AG Andrew Bailey’s new lawsuit is an endorsement of anti-abortion violence

2 years 6 months ago

The secretly filmed video of a young woman who works at a Missouri Planned Parenthood clinic ends with an image of crosshairs and a call to “Be Brave. Do Something.”  Project Veritas is a far-right organization that surreptitiously films employees of organizations that it opposes, deceptively edits the videos, and then uses them to direct […]

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Bridgette Dunlap

St. Louis Pediatrician Swapped Drugs for Sex for Years, Prosecutors Say

2 years 6 months ago
A pediatrician in St. Louis has allegedly been exchanging prescription drugs for sex and cash with patients for a decade — an illicit practice federal prosecutors say he continued even after one of the women he supplied narcotics to overdosed and died. Prosecutors wrote in a complaint filed in federal court yesterday that Craig Spiegel has doled out "over 73,000 controlled substance pills" to at least 25 individuals, though the complaint states the number of people he's illicitly provided pills to is probably higher. There was "no legitimate medical purpose" for the doctor to give these people drugs, which authorities say he distributed in a "tit-for-tat" nature, giving them to female patients in exchange for sexual favors and to other patients in exchange for money.
Ryan Krull

St. Louis’ Dumb Cops Can’t Multitask While Driving, Commander Suggests

2 years 6 months ago
There hasn’t been a large increase in accidents involving St. Louis police — or at least that’s what police told the Board of Aldermen yesterday. The police department always averages 100 to 150 crashes a year, there’s just more photos of them now. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has earned derision for a series of one-car crashes in recent months, including most prominently one where a police SUV plowed into a gay bar (and then arrested the bar’s owner), but also other accidents where police failed to acknowledge their actions or crashed in seemingly spectacular ways.
Kallie Cox

States consider menthol cigarette bans as feds delay action

2 years 6 months ago

CLERMONT, Fla. — It was just after sunset, and the evening traffic was buzzing on Highway 50 as 24-year-old Elijah Kinlaw popped into his local Walgreens in Clermont, Florida, to pick up some smokes. He had just finished a long day working at a local roofing company, and he was still wearing his neon green […]

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Nada Hassanein

Intel’s $3.5 Billion Boondoggle

2 years 6 months ago
The microchip giant’s ‘secure enclave’ project will take nearly 10 percent of a CHIPS Act manufacturing fund that is already stretched thin.
Austin Ahlman