by Alisa Nelson | Aug 24, 2020 | Crime / Courts, News
The Missouri House is in session today and is expected to take a preliminary vote on six crime bills. Gov. Mike Parson cites the state’s rising crime rate for calling the current special session. Kansas City Democrat Ashley Bland Manlove, the Vice Chair of the...
by Alisa Nelson | Aug 13, 2020 | Crime / Courts, News
Protesters marched the streets in the heart of Jefferson City today to voice their opposition to the governor’s crime package. They walked down High Street in front of the Missouri Capitol and made a pitstop at the Governor’s Mansion. Police were on the scene to try...
by Ashley Byrd | Feb 28, 2019 | News
The state’s top law enforcement agency does not know how many untested rape kits remain in crime labs and hospital storage rooms across Missouri. But they have six months to find out. Attorney General Eric Schmitt tapped Judge M. Keithly Williams to be the state...
by Mike Lear | May 2, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
A circuit judge has ruled Missouri is due nearly $50-million more in this year’s tobacco settlement payment. The office of Attorney General Chris Koster says the St. Louis Circuit Court ruling partially vacates a 2013 arbitration panel decision that cost...
by Mike Lear | Apr 23, 2014 | News
Attorney General Chris Koster has released a statement regarding the execution Wednesday morning of William Rousan for the 1993 murder of Grace Lewis. Koster writes, “William Rousan displayed an appalling indifference to human life in the murders of Charles and...