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Former Cardinals broadcaster pleads guilty to DWI charge

2 years 8 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 8 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 8 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

Family wants new prosecutor after man who killed their son in Fayette released on bond

2 years 8 months ago

FAYETTE — Tears ran down Torrance Evans Sr.’s face, as he watched the freezing January rain pour down outside the Howard County Courthouse. “This isn’t justice,” he said, pausing to catch his breath, “for killing my son.” Moments before, a judge had allowed his son’s killer to get out on bond and leave town while […]

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Rebecca Rivas

Advocacy groups ask FTC to expand Biden administration efforts to rein in junk fees

2 years 8 months ago

President Joe Biden devoted 19 sentences of his State of the Union speech to “junk fees,” which includes credit card late fees, service fees for concert tickets and airplane seating preferences that he said strain families’ budgets. Biden did not mention the numerous and opaque fees faced by prisoners and their families every day. But […]

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Casey Quinlan