The Missouri Supreme Court halted the immediate release Wednesday of a man whose murder conviction was overturned — just as the man was about to walk free. A St. Louis Circuit Court judge had ordered Christopher Dunn, now 52, to be released by 6 p.m. CDT Wednesday and threatened the prison warden with contempt if...
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Missouri woman Sandra Hemme who spent 43 years in prison freed after murder conviction overturned
A Missouri woman who spent 43 years in prison after incriminating herself in a 1980 murder while she was a psychiatric patient has been freed from prison despite attempts in the last month by Missouri’s attorney general to keep her behind bars. Sandra Hemme, 64, was the longest held wrongly incarcerated woman known in the...
Judge puts pause on St. Louis guaranteed income program that pays poor families $500 a month
A Missouri judge halted St. Louis’ guaranteed income program while it’s being challengedin court. Circuit Judge Joseph P. Whyte on Thursday issued a temporary restraining order against the St. Louis Guaranteed Basic Income Project (GBI). This move will impact more than 500 families who were participating in the GBI program. “The City of St. Louis...
Majority of Trump security detail were not Secret Service, whistleblowers tell Sen. Hawley
Whistleblowers inside the Department of Homeland Security have alleged that the majority of the security detail for former President Donald Trump were “not even Secret Service,” according to a Republican lawmaker. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri relayed these claims in a public letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday outlining a series...
Congressman Eric Burlison: In the Biden administration, 'the inmates are running the prison'
U.S. Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., sat down with Fox News Digital at FreedomFest in Las Vegas to discuss the 2024 election, immigration, Second Amendment rights, and the government response to the COVID pandemic. As former President Trump and the GOP brand have expanded throughout the American heartland in many areas that were once swing states,...
On this day in history, July 16, 1911, American actress and dancer Ginger Rogers is born
Hollywood glamour has been part and parcel of the film industry for decades — with the 1930s and 1940s well-known as among the most glamorous time period in the movie-making business. Ginger Rogers was an American actress and dancer who was best known for work with the legendary Fred Astaire during that time period and...
4 endangered American red wolf pups born at St. Louis Zoo in historic first
The St. Louis Zoo recently announced the birth of four endangered American red wolf pups earlier this year in what is a first for the zoo. The pups were born at the St. Louis Zoo Sears Lehmann Jr. Wildlife Reserve, which is located in Eureka, Missouri – about 20 miles southwest of the zoo’s WildCare...
Missouri man wore women’s clothes while he tortured them in sex lair, dumped at least 1 body in river: police
WARNING: GRAPHIC A suspected killer allegedly hunted Kansas City, Missouri, sex workers, tortured them with electric currents and forced them to sexually gratify him for food. On Tuesday, Tim Haslett was charged with murder, rape, kidnapping and sodomy as part of a growing list of disturbing accusations involving at least two women. The most recent...
Biden admin's 'radical mandate' forces medical providers to do gender transitions: Red state AG
FIRST ON FOX: Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is suing the Biden administration over its new “radical mandate” that requires health care providers to perform transgender surgical procedures – including on children – while forcing states to pay for them. “Joe Biden is once again exceeding his legal authority in order to force his radical...
Meet the American who gave flight to football, Bradbury Robinson, college star threw first forward pass
Imagine the United States of America without football — our most popular sport and a cherished cultural spectacle. No Friday night lights, Saturday afternoon madness or Super Bowl Sunday. It nearly happened. Gruesome violence on the gridiron in the early 1900s spurred calls from pigskin prohibitionists to spike football. St. Louis University star Bradbury Robinson...









