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Provided/Federal Bureau of InvestigationLaw enforcement captured Jonathan O’Dell of Warsaw, Missouri, around 5 p.m. on Sunday night. O'Dell broke out of the Rolla jail later Friday night. His federal indictment alleges he planned to shoot immigrants crossing the border illegally. -
Christine Tannous/Pool photoJean Peters Baker is named as a respondent in a lawsuit challenging Missouri’s near-total ban on abortion. She is asking the judge for permission to raise her own legal challenges to the law.
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Tommy Boyd is serving a 30-year sentence for statutory sodomy. -
Illinois became the first state in the country to abolish cash bail on Monday, but the courts remained slow in the Metro East.
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Twenty-seven people have died in car crashes this year, along with four pedestrians. Drivers have injured another 134 pedestrians and four cyclists.
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When Illinois becomes the first U.S. state to abolish cash bail, it could set off a surge in electronic monitoring to the fear of the law’s most fervent supporters.
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Mayor Tishaura Jones is pushing the board to pass the legislation, which she unveiled in August after a roundtable with survivors of gun violence.
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State lawmakers passed and the governor signed the criminal justice reform back in 2021. Originally scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, 2023, lawsuits slowed the SAFE-T Act's enactment. The legislation includes the elimination of cash bail.
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Matt Mitchell, the former Illinois trooper who killed Jessica and Kelli Uhl in a 2007 high-speed crash near O'Fallon, is yet again seeking a reinstatement of his driving privileges.
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Experts say the doomsday scenarios surrounding the controversial criminal justice reform aren’t likely to materialize. But big changes are coming.
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After settling the lawsuit where a former player sued the Mascoutah volleyball coach for allegedly violating her civil rights, the coach is suing the player, alleging defamation.
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Special Agent in Charge Jay Greenberg says 300 educators attended training on how to implement threat assessment teams over the summer.
