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Former Cardinals broadcaster pleads guilty to DWI charge

2 years 7 months ago
Former St. Louis Cardinals broadcaster Dan McLaughlin pleaded guilty on Thursday to a DWI charge. Prosecutors charged McLaughlin, 48, in early December as a persistent offender with one count of driving while intoxicated and one misdemeanor count of failing to drive within a single lane. The Creve Coeur Police Department said it received two calls about a suspected drunk driver in a white sedan. An officer found the reported car heading east on Ladue Road before taking Interstate 270 northbound. The…
Alli Hebel, KSDK

Even Former NSA Lawyers Don’t Think A TikTok Ban Fixes The Actual Problem

2 years 7 months ago
We’ve mentioned more than a few times how the great moral panic over TikTok is a hollow performance by unserious people who have little actual interest in consumer privacy. Folks like the FCC’s Brendan Carr, who’ve spent years opposing funding privacy regulators or passing a meaningful Internet privacy law, yet now suffer repeated, performative embolisms […]
Karl Bode

Missouri attorney general calls for pause on puberty blocker medication for children

2 years 7 months ago
The Missouri attorney general called on St. Louis Children's Hospital and Washington University to stop prescribing puberty blockers to new patients in a letter Friday. This comes after Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced an investigation into allegations made by a former employee of Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital. In an article published online Thursday, a former employee alleges the center was not thoroughly assessing patients before moving ahead…
Sam Clancy, Anne Stegen and Justina Coronel, KSDK