by admin | May 16, 2000 | Crime / Courts
The United States Supreme Court has refused to review the convictions of Michael Worthington and Charles Armentrout. Worthington has been convicted of strangling a Lake St. Louis woman in 19-95. Armentrout faces execution for using a souvenir baseball bat to beat his...
by admin | May 10, 2000 | Crime / Courts
The state Supreme Court has thrown out a law making it hard to sue a liquor establishment for injuries caused by people who leave the places drunk and then hurt somebody. The law says suits only can be filed if the owner of the place has been convicted of serving a...
by admin | May 8, 2000 | Politics / Govt
A 1.4-million dollar contract awarded by the St. Louis County government without competitive bids has been held to be in-valid. The state Supreme Court has refused to overturn a lower court ruling. But it’s too late to do much about it. The emergency dispatching...
by admin | Apr 25, 2000 | Crime / Courts
Prison inmate Christoper Simmons has lost an appeal of his death sentence to the United States Supreme Court. He was 17 when he taped a woman to a chair and then threw her into the Meramec River in St. Louis County. He’ll be 24 tomorrow.
by admin | Apr 7, 2000 | Crime / Courts
Kansas City laywer Michael White has been cleared of any professional misconduct by the state’s chief disciplinary counsel. Attorney General Jay Nixon had accused White of misconduct, in hiding payments from a Las Vegas gaming company to the former Speaker of...