Six-time Olympic medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee will issue the historic instruction of “Gentlemen, start your engines,” as Grand Marshal of the Enjoy Illinois 300 NASCAR Cup Series Race at World Wide Technology Raceway (WWTR) at 2:30 p.m. June 4, 2023.
Remember Planes, Trains, and Automobiles? I feel like I was making my own version of the film with my recent trip to Kansas City. I used all three modes of transportation, but with fewer hassles than John Candy and Steve Martin had. Russ and I started off by Ubering to the St. Louis airport for...
The law firm of Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard PC has signed a long-term lease to move to the Peabody Plaza building at 701 Market St., bidding farewell in mid-2024 to the One City Center building on Washington Avenue.
Missouri Sen. Rick Brattin is pushing to exempt sales taxes on the purchase of firearms and ammunition. But in his district, where guns are as common as butter, residents aren't so quick to agree.
Geezer Butler admits that not every Black Sabbath album was great, and for him, that's particularly true for 1978’s Never Say Die!, which was their last record with Ozzy Osbourne until 2013’s 13. “I will say that Never…
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- One of the fraternity brothers who has been charged in a hazing case at Mizzou took a plea deal earlier today. Thomas Shultz of Chesterfield pleaded guilty to supplying alcohol to a minor. The judge sentenced Schultz to 30 days in jail and 100 hours of community service. Schultz has also been [...]
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s office has been ordered to appear at another “show cause” hearing this week for failing to show up to a trial.
Gardner, or someone in her office, is expected to appear Thursday before Judge Michael Noble to answer why they shouldn’t be jailed, fined or both for being in contempt of court.
In court documents, Noble said attorney Chris Desilets failed to appear to both a jury trial on April 10 and a status hearing on Monday.
The circuit attorney’s…
It’s “protect the children” season in Congress with the return of KOSA and EARN IT, two terrible bills that attack the internet, and rely on people’s ignorance of how things actually work to pretend they’re making the internet safer, when they’re not. Added to this is Senator Dick Durbin’s STOP CSAM Act, which he’s been […]
Judge Scott Millikan used a lot of words Monday to describe St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner and her office’s conduct after no one from the prosecutor’s office showed up for a first-degree murder trial in his courtroom a week ago – but “criminal contempt” was not among them.
Millikan said the bar is high when it comes to fining someone, holding them in jail or both for contempt of court. He said the list of internal communications Gardner’s attorney submitted along with the statements…