by admin | May 25, 2006 | Politics / Govt
A report from the State Attorney General shows that in 2005, Black drivers were 46 percent more likely than whites to be stopped by police, and almost twice as likely to be searched. The Department of Public Safety is responsible for monitoring that data in the...
by admin | May 24, 2006 | Crime / Courts
The American Civil Liberties Union says Missouri telephone companies are refusing to say whether they have given personal phone information to the National Security Agency. Western District Director Brett Shirk says it’s illegal spying. He wants Attorney General...
by admin | May 22, 2006 | Crime / Courts
An initiatial hearing into a legal challenge to Missouri’s 2005 workers’ compensation law has been held, with Cole County Circuit Judge Byron Kinder indicating he is not about to strike the statute based on what he has heard. Plaintiffs’ attorney...
by admin | Apr 30, 2006 | News
Missouri Department of Natural Resources Director Doyle Childers says he’s pleased a circuit judge has ruled in his favor in the dispute over the Boonville bridge, but isn’t sure whether the litigation is over. A judge has ruled the state has no ownership...
by admin | Apr 28, 2006 | Crime / Courts
Attorney General Jay Nixon has filed a lawsuit to stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from conducting a manmade flood, or Spring rise, on the Missouri River in May. The rise is supposed to help some endangered fish in the river. Nixon says the Corps has not followed...