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The state of Missouri has executed Marcellus Williams despite concerns that the convicted murderer might have been innocent. Williams died by lethal injection shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday at Missouri state prison in Bonne Terre. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2001 for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a social worker and former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter who was fatally stabbed during a daytime burglary. Republican Missouri Governor Mike Parson, Missouri's Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court all rejected last-minute attempts to halt the execution, ignoring clemency pleas from Williams' lawyers, prosecutors and members of the...

ST. LOUIS – Charges have been filed against a man accused of driving drunk and causing a crash that killed a St. Louis police officer over the weekend. Officer David Lee was killed Sunday morning after responding to a one-vehicle crash on eastbound Interstate 70 near Grand Boulevard around 8:30 a.m., according to St. Louis Police Chief Robert Tracy.

DEARBORN, Mo. (KCTV) - An unknown man was shot and killed when he attempted to force his way into a rural Missouri home after he prayed to a horse and attacked a dog. The Platte County, Missouri, Sheriff’s Office says that around 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 18, emergency crews were called to the 15000 block of Masonic Dr. in Dearborn with reports of a suspicious individual. The homeowner reported a partially clothed man had arrived at their home and began to pray to a horse before he attacked their dog. When he attempted to force his way into the...

On September 6, a Cole County, Missouri Circuit Court judge ruled against Missouri’s proposed Amendment 3, also known as the “Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative.” In the judgment released late Friday, the judge found that Missourians for Constitutional Freedom and Dr. Anna Fitz-James, who are leading the campaign effort to pass Amendment 3, ran afoul of state law. The judgment follows a lawsuit against Amendment 3 filed on August 22, 2024, by Thomas More Society attorneys, and rules favorably on the allegation that the Amendment 3 initiative petition violated state law by failing to provide voters with a list of...

CV NEWS FEED // Pro-life leaders are warning that Planned Parenthood is attempting to evade pro-life laws in Missouri and Oklahoma by opening a new abortion mill in the Kansas border city of Pittsburg, according to a recent press release posted by Christian News Wire. Family Council Arkansas and Operation Rescue recently exposed Planned Parenthood Great Plains’ purchase of the building, which it attempted to hide through a string of property investment limited liability companies. Pittsburg is a small college town close to both Missouri and Oklahoma. David Cox of Family Council Arkansas condemned the move as an attempt to...

A Missouri man wanted in connection with the 1993 murder of an Indianapolis woman has been arrested and charged with her death over 30 years after the case was opened. Dana Jermaine Shepherd, 52, is charged with two counts of murder and one count of rape in connection with the 1993 death of Carmen Hope Van Huss. Shepherd was arrested in Boone County, Missouri, on Friday, Aug. 30. He is charged in Marion County, Indiana. Shepherd reportedly works for the University of Missouri as a custodian. On March 24, 1993, 19-year-old Carmen Hope Van Huss was found raped and murdered...

Planned Parenthood affiliates providing abortions to Missouri residents have filed a lawsuit to block a new state law that would prevent them from receiving Medicaid funding. The law was set to take effect August 28. Passed in April, the law says that “no public funds will be expended to any abortion facility or affiliate thereof.” It will prevent the state’s health care program, MO Healthnet, from reimbursing Planned Parenthood. Though nearly all preborn children in the state of Missouri are currently protected from abortion, Planned Parenthood Great Plains of Overland Park, Kansas, and Planned Parenthood Great Rivers (which has a...

A Planned Parenthood clinic will be offering people free vasectomies and abortions during the Democratic National Convention (DNC), which is set to be held next week in Chicago. Planned Parenthood Great Rivers (PPGR), the Chicago Abortion Fund, and The Wieners Circle will be “providing FREE vasectomies & medication abortion” at Planned Parenthood Great Rivers’ mobile health clinic, PPGR announced in a post on X. According to the New York Times, the mobile health clinic will be set up “blocks away” from the DNC. PPGR, which is part of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, is described as being “the...

Abortion initiatives in Missouri and Arizona will effectively ask voters to allow no restrictions on ending the lives of unborn children. Missouri and Arizona on Tuesday joined the list of states with abortion initiatives on the Nov. 5 ballot. Now, voters will decide pro-abortion measures in a total of eight states, the most on record in a single year: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Nevada, and South Dakota. The ballot measures in both Arizona and Missouri ask voters whether they wish to amend their state constitution to allow abortions. Both include a wide-ranging “health of the mother” clause—or...

A Ferguson, Missouri, police officer was critically injured outside the city’s police station during protests on the 10th anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown... Ferguson police chief Troy Doyle said Officer Travis Brown suffered a severe brain injury Friday after being knocked to the ground.... Police also didn’t intervene when the protesters began shaking the fence outside the station. But he said that when they broke a section of fencing, he sent out the arrest team. The suspect who charged at Travis Brown knocked him backward with his shoulder, and the officer hit his head as he tumbled...

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) vowed revenge on a top pro-Israel PAC after she lost the primary in her reelection campaign on Tuesday. The group boosted her opponent in a tightly contested race, knocking off a second member of the progressive “squad.” The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) super PAC, United Democracy Project, was a top funder of her opponent, St. Louis County District Attorney Wesley Bell. Bush was harshly criticized for her outspoken criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza. Bush said in a fiery speech after her loss that leaving Congress will only “takes some strings off.” “Because now...

18% Reporting Wesley Bell 15,274 63.8% Cori Bush*incumbent 7,929 +33.1%

Far-left Democrat Cori Bush appears to have lost her bid for re-election in Missouri’s First Congressional district by a landslide. While full results from the race are yet to be counted, it is already clear that Bush will not be returning to Congress next year. Cori Bush has LOST her primary in St. Louis. She is officially a LOSER! pic.twitter.com/DDjPedBfOe — Joey Mannarino (@JoeyMannarinoUS) August 7, 2024 With almost 20% report, incumbent Squad member Cori Bush is down more than 30% in her primary against pro-Israel Democrat Wesley Bell. Bush would join Jamaal Bowman as incumbents from The Squad to...

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We're getting oh so close to knowing who all the candidates on the November ballot will be, but even as the calendar has turned to August, about a third of all states still have yet to hold their primaries for non-presidential office. On Tuesday, four states — Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington — will head to the polls (or mail in their ballots), and we're tracking over a dozen races between them. With luck, by Wednesday, we'll know whether the progressive "Squad" has lost another member; whether one of the two remaining Republican representatives who voted to impeach former President...

Another member of the “squad” of progressive lawmakers is fighting for political survival in Tuesday’s primaries, which will also put former President Donald Trump’s endorsement to the test once again, including in Michigan’s crucial battleground Senate race. Rep. Cori Bush’s Democratic primary in Missouri is among the most expensive and hotly contested races Tuesday, when voters in four states — Missouri, Washington, Michigan and Kansas — pick their parties’ nominees in congressional and state races. Four years after she ousted longtime Rep. William Lacy Clay Jr. in the heavily Democratic 1st District, Bush is looking to win a race that...

MSNBC contributor Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said Monday on “Deadline” that former President Donald Trump is in the “fat Elvis” stage of his career and is worrying about his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate pick. McCaskill said, “First, I’ve got to give a shout-out to my friend Charlie Sykes. I spit coffee over the weekend when I saw how he referred to Trump, that Trump is in the fat Elvis stage of his career. I mean, I love that. I love that. So, I didn’t want to go any further in this program without giving love to my fellow...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday shut down a long-shot push from Missouri to remove a gag order in former President Donald Trump’s hush-money case and delay his sentencing in New York.The Missouri attorney general went to the high court with the unusual request to sue New York after the justices granted Trump broad immunity from prosecution in a separate case filed in Washington. The order states that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would have allowed Republican Andrew Bailey to file the suit, though not grant his push to quickly lift the gag order and delay sentencing....

A major gym chain is being investigated by Missouri's Attorney General after it allowed a trans woman to use a female locker room. Eris Montano, who has legally changed her gender, was accosted by a fellow gym goer whilst at the Ellisville Lifetime Fitness on Monday. A dispute has since ensued and police were ultimately involved, after someone filed a complaint on Friday morning, FirstAlert4 reports.

Wesley Bell’s campaign is projecting confidence he will pull off an upset over Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) in next Tuesday’s closely watched primary in St. Louis, amid growing signs he is well-positioned to become the second candidate to unseat a Squad incumbent this election cycle. With just a few days remaining until the primary concludes in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, Bell, the prosecuting attorney for St. Louis County, has been gaining momentum against Bush, a two-term lawmaker who herself rose to office in 2021 after beating an incumbent. The outspoken progressive is facing a formidable threat from Bell, a pro-Israel...