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Can you shoot someone inside your home in Missouri?

2 years 10 months ago
MISSOURI — Twenty states have castle doctrines while even more have stand-your-ground laws but what constitutes legal self-defense can still vary across these states. For Missouri, both the castle doctrine and the stand-your-ground law state, the law permits protecting oneself (or a third party, with exceptions) with deadly force should a person feel it is [...]
Luke Sachetta

Letting Autocrats Win: Sweden’s Prime Minister Apologizes For Anti-Erdogan Protests

2 years 10 months ago
For a political leader who’s so transparently self-serving and incredibly thin-skinned, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan sure seems to have a knack for bending other parts of the world to his will. Having criminalized pretty much any criticism of him, President Erdogan has managed to silence a lot of homegrown dissent. But it’s apparently not […]
Tim Cushing

Daily Deal: Clocky, The Runaway Alarm Clock

2 years 10 months ago
An alarm on wheels. Clocky, the runaway alarm clock, is the rolling, jumping, moving alarm. He’s the durable bedside alarm that will run away, hide, move, roll, wheel, beep, and jump (from up to a 3-foot nightstand). He moves on carpet or wood, and changes directions over and over until you get up to turn […]
Gretchen Heckmann

Donald Trump ordered to pay Hillary Clinton $172,000

2 years 10 months ago
Several months ago Donald Trump lost his bizarre lawsuit against an array of his worst imagined enemies. On Thursday his enemies had their say: A Florida-based federal judge has ordered nearly $1 million in sanctions against Donald Trump and his attorney Alina Habba, calling the former president a “mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial ...continue reading "Donald Trump ordered to pay Hillary Clinton $172,000"
Kevin Drum

St. Louis remote-work tax lawsuit benefits six people

2 years 10 months ago
ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic had some people asking why they were paying a St. Louis earnings tax if they were not working in the city limits. The one percent earnings tax is charged to city residents and nonresidents who work in the St. Louis. A lawsuit was filed a [...]
Joe Millitzer

St. Louis Winter Beer Festival Comes to Molly's on March 4

2 years 10 months ago
It may be cold outside, but the patio at Molly's in Soulard should be hot on March 4 — as the Snow Day: A Winter Beer Festival makes it debut. The new event, a collaboration between the Riverfront Times and Molly's, promises dozens of "seasonal, limited-edition beers," winter-themed cocktails, live music, a "restaurant row" with food from local eateries, a vendor marketplace and fire pits. They're promising more than 100 different beers.
Sarah Fenske