by Mike Lear | Jun 30, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
The issue of gay marriage seems sure to feature in the 2016 race for governor in Missouri after four same-sex couples were married last week in St. Louis. Their unions set up a challenge to Missouri’s constitutional ban on gay marriage that Democratic Attorney...
by Mike Lear | Jun 26, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
Missouri’s Attorney General has issued a statement on the issuing of same-sex marriage licenses by the St. Louis Recorder of Deeds to four couples, who were married in a ceremony in St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay’s office on Wednesday. As Attorney General,...
by Mike Lear | Jun 26, 2014 | News
The City of St. Louis has set up a challenge to Missouri’s constitutional ban on gay marriage by issuing marriage licenses to four same-sex couples in a ceremony Wednesday night at City Hall. The four couples were then married by a municipal judge in the office...
by Mike Lear | Jun 18, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
Missouri has carried out the execution of 46-year-old John Winfield for the murders of two women in St. Louis County 18 years ago. Winfield received a lethal injection of pentobarbital at 12:01 Wednesday morning and was pronounced dead at 12:10. Winfield appeared to...
by Mike Lear | Jun 16, 2014 | News
Attorneys for convicted murderer John Winfield have asked U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito to issue a stay in Winfield’s execution, scheduled for early Wednesday morning at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center at Bonne...
