by admin | Oct 15, 2005 | Crime / Courts, Politics / Govt
State Corrections officials will not be driving an inmate from the Vandalia women’s prison to St. Louis for an abortion today. US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has granted the state’s request for a stay in the proceedings until he or the full court...
by admin | Oct 14, 2005 | Crime / Courts
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the State’s request for a stay of a federal judge’s order to allow a female inmate at the state prison in Vandalia to have an abortion. Federal Judge Dean Whipple of Kansas City has ordered Corrections...
by admin | Sep 28, 2005 | Crime / Courts
Nine Missouri gas stations are paying $6,750 in penalties to settle price-gouging allegations made by Attorney General Jay Nixon. A tenth station has refused to settle and is being sued in Greene County. Nixon began investigating possible gouging after Hurricane...
by admin | Sep 26, 2005 | Politics / Govt
Attorney General Jay Nixon has started investigating 50 gas stations for possible price-gouging. He says investigators are looking at gas receipts from state vehicles that used those stations. Four years ago, after the terrorist attacks, Nixon settled gouging claime...
by admin | Sep 19, 2005 | Crime / Courts
A judge in Jefferson City has ruled the State Attorney General’s Office is within its right to proceed with its suit against the State Department of Natural Resources over DNR’s plan to give the railroad bridge at Boonville to the Union Pacific Railroad....
