by Jessica Machetta | Mar 13, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
The Supreme Court has issued show-cause orders for two more Death Row inmates — Michael Shane Worthington and Leon Taylor. A show-cause order is issued when the court believes all appeals have been exhausted, meaning there is no reason why the death sentence...
by Jessica Machetta | Mar 13, 2014 | News
The St. Louis Federal Reserve says a February survey shows the majority of St. Louis area businesses expect local economic conditions will be better this year than last year. The percentage of respondents who expect conditions to worsen was significantly lower than...
by Jessica Machetta | Mar 12, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
The Supreme Court of Missouri has decided not to issue an opinion on whether red-light cameras are constitutional, despite the urging of the state’s two largest cities’ police chiefs. St. Louis has stopped issuing tickets to motorists caught on video by...
by Jessica Machetta | Mar 11, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is praising a federal court ruling upholding Missouri’s funeral-protest law as constitutional and enforceable. “My office has been fighting for five years to ensure that funerals for fallen soldiers can be free of disruptive...
by Jessica Machetta | Mar 5, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
Gov. Jay Nixon is in Canada, where he says a $3.2 billion dollar trade agreement with Québec nets Missouri a 15 percent increase in exports over the next four years. Canadian Minister of Trade Ed Fast. Nixon says the mission has led to an agreement signed by Québec’s...