22nd Circuit Court

The St. Louis Police Partnership Program connects participants and their families with officers through monthly home visits and resources like jobs, education and housing.

Betts — who has become known for saying just about anything — will depart at the end of the year after losing the Democratic primary to former deputy Alfred Montgomery.

A federal lawsuit alleges St. Louis sheriff's deputies told the Jefferson County man he could not protest in front of the Civil Courts Building — a public area — due to department policy. No such policy seems to exist.

Clyde Cahill, a native of St. Louis, was the first Black federal judge in the Eastern District of Missouri, which is based in the city.

Circuit Judge Jason Sengheiser said it was not up to the court to make a judgment on the soundness of the abortion policy but whether its language violated the constitution.

Christopher Dunn is serving a life sentence for the 1990 murder of Ricco Rogers. But two adolescent eyewitnesses have recanted, and prosecutors say they no longer believe that Dunn is guilty.

Prosecutors in St. Louis file a complaint to get someone off the streets, then ask for continuances in the required preliminary hearings while they take the case to the grand jury. Public defenders want the Missouri Supreme Court to order judges to hold the hearings on time to protect their clients’ constitutional rights.

Tennessee teenager Janae Edmondson, who was seriously injured in a car accident in February and had her legs amputated, has filed a lawsuit against the City of St. Louis.

Kim Gardner’s abrupt resignation on Tuesday led to confusion about who was in charge of an office that had descended into chaos over the past two months.

Prosecutors, public defenders and others review the damage caused by the staffing crisis in the circuit attorney’s office and discuss how to move on after Kim Gardner leaves.