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Trump's federal Jan. 6 case set for trial on March 4

2 years 8 months ago
Former President Trump is set to face trial in March 2024 in the Justice Department’s case targeting his efforts to remain in office after losing the 2020 election. The decision from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to begin jury selection on March 4 comes after special counsel Jack Smith’s team asked for a Jan. 2, 2024, trial [...]
Ella Lee

R.I.P. Eric Stein, Beloved ‘Patriarch’ of the Focal Point

2 years 8 months ago
When Eric and Judy Stein discovered the Focal Point in the early 1980s, they found themselves a second home and an extended family. At that point, the presenting organization was only a few years old, birthed out of the long-running Music Folk shop in 1975 before moving to another facility in Webster Groves in 1992.
Thomas Crone

Man charged after shooting at officers in south St. Louis Sunday

2 years 8 months ago
ST. LOUIS -- A man is facing charges for shooting at police officers early Sunday morning. The St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office has charged Derek Morado Gama, 20, with assault and armed criminal action. He is in jail with no bond allowed. Three officers were driving in the 4900 block of Christy Sunday, just after [...]
Joe Millitzer

Letter To The Editor: Statement SURJ's Erin Heaney on the White Supremacist Murder of Black Residents in Jacksonville, Fla.

2 years 8 months ago
Letter To The Editor: “White supremacist violence is never the product of a ‘lone shooter’. The white man who murdered AJ Laguerre Jr., Jerrald De'Shaun Gallon, and Angela Michelle Carr in Jacksonville this weekend acted as part of white supremacist culture and white nationalist networks that are further emboldened by anti-Black rhetoric and policies like those pushed by Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida. "White people have a responsibility to actively engage other white people where they’re at and invite them into other ways of being together besides racism. We must do this before they are organized by violent, racist networks to harm our Black and brown neighbors. That means, to end white supremacist violence in this country, we need millions more white people to join us in organizing white people away from racism and into multiracial fights for justice.” — Erin Heaney, Executive Director, Showing Up for Racial Justice

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