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Kim Gardner facing contempt of court charges after trial no-show

2 years 6 months ago
Embattled St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is slated to appear in court Monday morning to explain why she should not be held in indirect criminal contempt of court. This latest legal trouble for Gardner comes after one of her prosecutors didn't show up for the first day of a murder trial that was supposed to start one week ago.
Chris Regnier

Transgender Missourians consider leaving state after AG includes adults in emergency rule

2 years 6 months ago

Sera Hart-Smith and her partner Kyle Kiera Hart are packing their belongings to leave Missouri before Hart-Smith runs out of her supply of estrogen. Hart-Smith has been taking estrogen since she was 19, and the couple is afraid state leaders may take that access away and push her back into the depression that she felt […]

The post Transgender Missourians consider leaving state after AG includes adults in emergency rule appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Annelise Hanshaw

Public safety in Missouri belongs to the people, not the state

2 years 6 months ago

In a move with parallels across the country, conservative lawmakers in Jefferson City are advancing legislation to strip control of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) from the city and give it to the state. The bill comes a decade after Missourians voted to reverse a Civil War-era system that had kept St. Louis law enforcement […]

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