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Missouri Mom Says Clock Is Ticking to Figure Out How Her Son Died

2 years 10 months ago
Barbara Hall says she only has two days to figure out what caused her son's death in Madison County in February. Hall is the mother of Timmy Dees, a 26-year-old who went missing in February in Madison County, Missouri. His body was found five months later in July.
Ryan Krull

Fight over silica mine rekindles fears about Missouri’s Old Lead Belt 

2 years 10 months ago

Pickle Creek runs two miles through Ste. Genevieve County’s sandstone valleys. It carries some of Missouri’s cleanest water, but residents worry that could change if NexGen Silica gets full approval to mine sandstone on a 249-acre plot of land along nearby Highway 32. They don’t have to look very far to see the outcome they […]

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Niara Savage

Missouri poised to execute man convicted of crime he committed at 19 years old

2 years 10 months ago

This summer marked the 10th anniversary of the Miller v. Alabama, a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision banning mandatory sentences of life without parole for children. The decision recognized that youth are both less culpable for theirs crimes and more capable of rehabilitation than adults, because of significant differences in their brains and behavior. The […]

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Megan Crane