Rachel Lippmann
Justice ReporterRachel Lippmann covers courts, public safety and city politics for St. Louis Public Radio. (She jokingly refers to them as the “nothing ever happens beats.”) She joined the NPR Member station in her hometown in 2008, after spending two years in Lansing covering the Michigan Capitol and various other state political shenanigans for NPR Member stations there. Though she’s a native St. Louisan, part of her heart definitely remains in the Mitten. (And no, she’s not going to tell you where she went to high school.)
Rachel has an undergraduate degree from the Medill School of Journalism, and a master’s in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois at Springfield. When she’s not busy pursuing the latest scoop, you can find her mentoring her Big Brothers Big Sisters match, hitting the running and biking paths in south St. Louis, catching the latest sporting event on TV, playing with every dog she possibly can, or spending time with the great friends she’s met in more than nine years in this city.
Rachel’s on Twitter @rlippmann. Even with 240 characters, spellings are still phonetic.
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The 12-member task force has been instructed to study how the city currently raises money, how sustainable those sources are and other potential revenue streams. -
The establishment of the refund process settles a lawsuit brought by six nonresident employees of companies based in St. Louis. The Missouri Court of Appeals had recently ruled they were eligible for refunds. -
The police department has struggled to solve homicides, partly due to shoddy detective work, staffing shortages and eroding community trust. -
These St. Louis families have been waiting for years in hopes of getting answers after their loved ones were killed. While parents, siblings and others say police seem to have forgotten them — they have not. -
The city’s homicide unit has dealt with short staffing, long hours and a ballooning DNA backlog. -
Several officers in the homicide unit faced internal complaints that they slept on the job, failed to get key evidence and lied to superiors. -
The judges’ order comes despite the fact that St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell has filed a motion to throw out the conviction because he no longer believes Marcellus Williams is guilty. -
In the past decade, police solved fewer than half of the homicide cases with Black victims and two-thirds of the cases with white ones. -
There were 17 people shot in the city in 10 cases from Friday to Sunday. Three of the victims later died. -
Getting and interpreting homicide clearance data involved litigation, complex analysis and patience. -
In one of America’s deadliest cities, police have struggled to solve killings due to staffing shortages, shoddy detective work and lack of community trust. -
Cara Spencer, currently the 8th Ward alderwoman, announced on social media on Thursday that she plans to challenge Mayor Tishaura Jones in 2025. The two faced off in 2021, when Jones won by 4 percentage points.
