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Unofficial website popular with Saint Louis, Missouri police contained a death threat against Brett Darrow three months before his recent encounter.When stopped by an out-of-control St. George, Missouri police officer last Friday, motorist Brett Darrow feared for his life (view story and video). It turns out, he had legitimate reason for concern. Three months ago, participants in an online forum frequented by Saint Louis law enforcement personnel threatened to harass -- and even physically harm -- Darrow. The messages appeared on St. Louis CopTalk, a site that describes itself as a site "for the use of law enforcement officers employed...

When Judge Stanley Mills finds his reserved place taken, he blocks the car in for hours. NEW PORT RICHEY - You don't tug on Superman's cape. You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger. And you never, ever, pull into Circuit Judge Stanley Mills' parking spot. Nichole Delameter spent all day Monday learning that lesson while cooling her flip-flops at the West Pasco Judicial Center. Mills made Delameter sit in his courtroom for much of the morning after she parked in his reserved spot. He used his 2005 Cadillac to block in her 1990 Oldsmobile until he left...

Former Roane County General Sessions Court Judge Thomas Alva Austin will spend the next 42 months in federal prison for soliciting kickbacks. "You violated the most sacred charge that is to dispense justice fairly and justly," U.S. District Judge Thomas Phillips told Austin today during a sentencing hearing. "You violated the trust of the citizens of Roane County." Austin pleaded guilty in March to charges he solicited roughly $14,000 in kickbacks from driving schools where he sent offenders and a probation office where he also ordered offenders to report. However, FBI Special Agent Bob Gibson has alleged in court records...