So this happened. The family of a 6-year-old boy in Missouri is being charged after they staged a four-hour kidnapping because they believed he was being too nice to people he didn’t know. The child’s mother, grandmother, aunt, and a co-worker of the aunt have been charged with kidnapping and other felonies for trying to […]
Challenging post-racial believers everywhere, a white Missouri man is in some serious trouble after telling a black waitress that he would like to take her to the place where he “hung” her grandfather. That man, 65-year-old Tommy Dean Gaa of Maryville, was charged with felony assault motivated by discrimination for confronting the woman as she […]
A 9-month-old boy is dead in Missouri after his brother, 5, accidentally shot him with a .22 caliber magnum revolver while he lay in his crib. The 5-year-old found the firearm on a shelf built into the headboard in the master bedroom, according to Nodaway County Sheriff Darren White. The mother of the two boys and two […]
Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson is reportedly stepping down in an effort to refine the city’s police department. According to CNN, the announcement is expected to happen next week. Jackson’s resignation comes in the midst of the on-going case of teen Michael Brown, who was shot by Officer Darren Wilson over the summer. The police chief in […]
In the wake of Michael Brown’s death at the hands of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, the nation has watched Missouri with a close eye — taking note of the police brutality, the lack of transparency between residents and law enforcement, and the way Missouri officials have handled unrest in the past weeks. But that surveillance […]
Missouri lawmakers passed one of the nation’s most stringent abortion waiting periods Wednesday, overriding a veto of legislation that will require women to wait 72 hours after consulting with a doctor before ending a pregnancy. Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon denounced the measure as “extreme and disrespectful” toward women, because it contains no exception for cases of rape or […]
Can you believe it’s only been twelve days? Twelve days since unarmed Ferguson, Mo. teenager Mike Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson. In that span of time, Ferguson went from being a regular small Missouri community to basically a war zone, as local police attempt to control protesters who want Wilson arrested. The world […]
When Antonio French, the St. Louis Alderman who has given us an incredible first-hand account of what is happening in Ferguson through his twitter feed, was released from jail this morning, he told the media, “Our civil rights don’t stop at 9PM.” After Antonio being arrested last night for “unlawful assembly,” I felt compelled to […]
Daisy Coleman may finally get the justice her family deserves. If you haven’t been following the story, 14-year-old Daisy Coleman was raped by a 17-year-old football player in Maryville, Missouri; Matt Barnett also happens to be the grandson of a prominent Missouri state senator. Charges were dropped soon after the assault was reported, and the family claims […]
