A Missouri school has suspended the teacher of a student who wore a Ku Klux Klan outfit to class but insists that the student was not acting “in a discriminatory way” because it was part of a group project. On Nov. 9, an unnamed student at Poplar Bluff High School attended class dressed in a […]
Two companies facing multiple lawsuits over a summer tourist boat accident in Missouri that killed 17 people have invoked an 1851 law that allows vessel owners to try to avoid or limit legal damages as they also seek settlement negotiations with victims’ family members. But Tia Coleman, an Indiana woman who survived the accident, and […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri is down to one clinic providing abortions Wednesday, after the only other clinic in the state that performs the procedure failed to adhere to new state requirements. Federal appeals court judges ruled last month that Missouri can enforce a requirement that doctors must have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals […]
An employee was fired.
One of the survivors, Tia Coleman, lost her husband, children and parents after the captain told the passengers they didn't need to put on life jackets.
A Black couple out of Missouri is angry after being denied a money order at a local Schnucks store for the color of their skin. As a result of the incident, the employee was fired according to Fox 2 Now. Kellen Hill posted videos and pictures to Facebook on May 7 detailing the horrific incident writing, “It’s […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review the case of a Missouri death row inmate who says his rare medical condition could cause him to choke on his own blood during an execution. The justices said they would hear the appeal of inmate Russell Bucklew. The court blocked Bucklew’s execution in March […]
Michael Johnson, a former college wrestler who received 30 years in prison for transmitting HIV has been granted parole. Johnson, a former wrestler at Lindenwood University who went by the nickname “Tiger Mandingo” was charged with two counts of HIV transmission and four counts of exposure, according to Blavity . In court, he got convicted with just one count of HIV transmission […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Missouri is defending a prison sentence for a man who committed robbery and other crimes on a single day when he was 16 and now isn’t eligible for parole until he’s 112 years old. State Attorney General Josh Hawley says in a U.S. Supreme Court filing that defendant Bobby Bostic’s 241-year sentence […]
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Disputed DNA has halted the scheduled execution of a Missouri man. Marcellus Williams, 48, was convicted of fatally stabbing former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Lisha Gayle during a 1998 robbery at her home in the suburb of University City. Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens on Tuesday halted the scheduled execution after DNA […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri lawmaker who drew bipartisan outrage over her brief Facebook comment expressing hope that President Donald Trump would be assassinated apologized publicly Sunday to Trump and his family, calling the online posting “a mistake.” But Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, a black Democrat, said she has no plans to resign as […]
A Kansas City, Missouri man is being honored for defending a bus driver under attack with his cane. Rodney Goldman was riding a bus when a man walked onto the bus and started attacking the female bus driver. CBS St. Louis reports: I was just screaming and screaming,” bus driver Lynn Judge said. “I didn’t […]
