In 1968 Lyndon Johnson nominated Abe Fortas to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, but the nomination failed because Republicans, along with some Southern Democrats, filibustered it. The Southerners didn't like the fact that Fortas was Jewish. Republicans, however, pointed to Fortas's receipt of $15,000 in private funds to give nine speeches at a ...continue reading "Republicans don’t care about Clarence Thomas’s lavish vacations"
Former St. Charles County Councilman Joseph McCulloch, the brother of former St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch, is among 11 applicants to succeed Tim Lohmar as St. Charles County prosecutor.
Mötley Crüe has shared a response to Mick Mars' lawsuit against the band, calling the filing "unfortunate and completely off-base" in a statement to Billboard. As previously reported, Mars' suit…
This week Republicans have: Loudly defended Donald Trump against charges of lawbreaking that he's obviously guilty of.¹ One of them even boasted that he would prevent extradition of Trump to New York, something that's clearly unconstitutional. Expelled a Democrat from the Tennessee legislature for bad behavior, with two more to come. Arrested the teenage son ...continue reading "The Republican week in review"
St. Louis County must recognize the city police officer's union as the collective bargaining group for county prosecutors and investigators, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The employees in 2018 voted to join the St. Louis Police Officers Association, but the county didn't meet with the union.
The union sued the county in 2020, and a trial court upheld the 2018 secret ballot election. The county appealed that decision, arguing the election was void because it was not conducted by the Missouri State…
This article originally ran in The St. Louis Business Journal on March 30, 2023. Leaders of the project to build a $55 million advanced manufacturing center in St. Louis say it will meet the needs of industry and potentially create hundreds of new businesses while providing “strong, diverse and equitable growth” for the region. The federal government last September awarded a […]
An Illinois couple in their early 20s were charged on Tuesday with the murder of their 3-month-old boy, who died in St. Louis last spring. The Illinois State Police said on Tuesday that Logan Hutchings and Sophia Kelly, both 21, brought their child, Ocean, to a hospital in St. Louis last June. The baby was found to be suffering a skull fracture and multiple rib fractures.
Homebuilder McBride Homes said Thursday that it plans to construct 26 townhomes on The Hill, near where it already constructed 58 single-family houses.
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PINCKNEYVILLE – Illinois State Police (ISP) Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) announce the arrests of 21-year-old Logan Hutchings and 21-year-old Sophia Kelly, both of Pinckneyville, for First Degree Murder (Class M Felony). On June 12, 2022, ISP DCI was requested by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and the Pinckneyville Police Department to investigate serious injuries sustained to a 3-month-old male infant. The infant had been admitted to a hospital in St. Louis, Missouri and was discovered to have a skull fracture, along with multiple rib fractures. Prior to the arrival at the hospital, the infant had been in the care of Hutchings and Kelly, the infant’s parents, in Pinckneyville. On June 14, 2022, the infant was pronounced deceased at the hospital as a result of these injuries. On April 4, 2023, the States Attorney's Appellate Prosecutors office charged both parents with three counts each of First-Degree Murder. Both Hutchings
St. Louis city is allowing a "soft relaunch" of e-scooters in downtown and Downtown West after banning them last July. Monte Chambers says that Bird, an e-scooter and e-bike short-term rental company, has received a permit from the city to place no more than 50 scooters downtown this weekend. The company has to test "internal compliance" on the ground and will be monitoring the use of the e-scooters starting Friday through the weekend.
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