St. Louis won another round in its legal battle against the Rams and the National Football League over the team’s move to Los Angeles, after a Missouri appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Rams cannot compel arbitration to settle the dispute.
Read moreA former St. Louis police officer whose acquittal on a murder charge last September led to protests sued the city’s former circuit attorney and an internal affairs detective Wednesday for malicious prosecution and defamation.
Read moreCiting DNA evidence that was withheld, a federal judge Tuesday ordered the reopening of a civil rights lawsuit in a high-profile, white-on-black police killing of a drug suspect.
Read moreThe Los Angeles Rams won the latest round in an ongoing legal battle against former St. Louis season ticket holders after a federal judge declined Tuesday to decide the case in favor of fans who bought personal seat licenses.
Read moreA journalist arrested and jailed for 13 hours after covering street protests arising from the 2011 shooting of a black man sued St. Louis and several officers, claiming they pepper-sprayed and assaulted him even though he did nothing wrong and clearly identified himself as a member of the press.
Read moreAfter agreeing to pay half of a $13.8 million settlement to a man wrongfully convicted of murder, Missouri’s attorney general changed his mind and sued St. Louis, seeking to limit the state’s liability to $1 million.
Read moreProsecuted for displaying Hillary Clinton and Black Lives Matter signs in his yard, a suburban St. Louis man has sued his city for threatening him with jail time for sticking more than one political sign on his front lawn.
Read moreThe Public School Retirement System of the City of St. Louis sued Missouri in City Court, claiming state Senate Bill 62 will reduce payments to the system by $132 million by 2033, leaving the system funded only at 71 percent of its obligations.
Read moreA Missouri appeals court on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a member of the Michael Brown grand jury who sought to go public with her experience.
Read moreIn a win for the American Civil Liberties Union, a federal judge found St. Louis police violated demonstrators’ rights during recent protests and ruled they can’t use or threaten to use pepper spray against peaceful protesters.
Read morePretrial detainees at the St. Louis Medium Security Institution, known as “the Workhouse,” face “hellish and inhumane conditions,” including infestations of rats and snakes and officer-directed assaults, they say in a federal class action.
Read moreMissouri’s attorney general will hire an independent investigator to find out if his predecessor withheld evidence before Anthony Lamar Smith’s family settled a wrongful death lawsuit in the case of the black man who was killed by the white policeman who was cleared of a murder charge this month.
Read moreSt. Louis city police officers violated protesters’ civil rights by using chemical weapons and interfering with the videotaping of police activity during a controversial arrest technique used Sunday night, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.
Read moreA St. Louis judge on Friday found a white former police officer who killed a black motorist six years ago not guilty of first-degree murder, prompting fears of protests and riots mirroring those in Ferguson, Missouri, three years ago.
Read moreFearing a repeat of protests and riots in Ferguson, Mo., three years ago sparked by the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer, St. Louis officials prepared Thursday for the following day’s verdict in the murder trial of another white officer who killed a black motorist six years ago.
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The Cardinals rallied in their match against the Royals on Tuesday night after the intrusion of a small cat onto the field at Busch Stadium caused a delay of several minutes with the bases loaded and two outs in the sixth.
Read moreA former St. Louis police officer on trial for the December 2011 murder of Anthony Smith took the stand in his defense Tuesday.
Read moreDay two of a former St. Louis City police officer’s murder trial for the killing of Anthony Smith was highlighted by prosecutors questioning fellow officers who responded to the scene.
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The Los Angeles Rams took a big hit Tuesday when the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that their St. Louis incarnation could be liable for hundreds of thousands of dollars in state taxes.
Read moreA white former St. Louis police officer charged with killing a black man “executed” him after a car chase, then planted a gun in the slain drug suspect’s vehicle as an excuse for opening fire, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday.
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