By: Donna Walter St. Louis Daily Record & St. Louis Countian, Feb 28, 2008 A lawyer representing a suspect in the disappearance of a 10- year-old boy asked the Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday to deny a grand jury access to his witness notes. John Rogers...
By: Hal Dardick Tribune staff reporter, October 19, 2007 A Will County judge Thursday barred further public release of documents detailing evidence in the death-penalty case against an Oswego man charged with murdering his wife and three children. Judge Daniel Rozak...
By: Donna Walter (reprinted from the St. Louis Daily Record & St. Louis Countian, September 3, 2007) An UMSL student detained in Russia is free to return to St. Louis. Roxana Contreras’ trial concluded Friday with Russian prosecutors dropping charges that the...
By: Adam Goldman, Associated Press (reprinted from the USA Today (NY), October 24, 2006) NEW YORK – Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a new Internet gambling ban won’t keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them on to overseas payment...
By: Peter Shinkle, of the Post-Dispatch (reprinted from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO), November 9, 2005) A man was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison for conspiring to steal art valued at up to $4 million — including works by Picasso and Matisse — from a...
By: Peter Shinkle, of the Post-Dispatch (reprinted from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO), September 2, 2005) Two men have pleaded guilty in St. Louis of stealing paintings and other works of art estimated to be worth $4 million. They included works by masters such as...
By: Tim Bryant, of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (reprinted from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO), September 4, 2004) The judge declared a mistrial in the murder case against the driver of a stolen car after jurors could not agree. A judge declared a mistrial Friday...
By: Jeremy Kohler (reprinted from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO), June 11, 2004) One year ago this morning, a father called 911 from a pay phone with a frightening account: A carjacker had driven away with his SUV and his diaper-clad, profoundly disabled 9-year-old...