by admin | Jun 30, 2005 | Crime / Courts
A decision by the US Supreme Court not to get involved in the case of two reporters threatened with jail time if they don’t disclose notes to a grand jury disappoints the Executive Director of Investigative Reporters and Editors. Brant Houston, who also teaches...
by admin | Jun 27, 2005 | Politics / Govt
Former Senator John Danforth uses the word “unbelieveable” to describe the anticipate fight on the President’s nominee to succeed William Rehnquist as the nation’s Chief Justice. Rehnquist is considered likely to retire because he has thyroid...
by admin | Jun 23, 2005 | Crime / Courts
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling gives cities broad powers to condemn private property to make way for economic development. Whether it will have an impact in Missouri depends on who you talk to. The Court ruled against New London, Connecticut residents fighting the...
by admin | Jun 21, 2005 | Crime / Courts
Former Kansas City pharmacist Robert Courtney’s 30-year prison sentence has been upheld by a federal appeals court. Courtney diluted medications for cancer patients and pocketed the additional profits. Prosecutors say the scheme lasted a decade and affected more...
by admin | Jun 8, 2005 | Uncategorized
For too many years Missouri, like most other states in the nation, had standards – written or unwritten – which would not allow people of differing races to use the same hospitals, barber and beauty shops, hotels or motels, water fountains, cemetaries or...
