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- Inamullah Niazai speaks during an interview Tuesday, April 26, 2022, in St. Louis. Niazai is one of about 600 people who have fled Afganistan and made it to St. Louis in the nearly nine months since the Afghan capital of Kabul was ceded to the Taliban, with another 750 expected by later this year. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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St. Louis seeking to boost population with Afghan refugees
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Sat,05/07/22-7:36AM , 460 Reads
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Inamullah Niazai sits on the front porch step of his red-brick St. Louis home and smiles at the bustle of activity around him — his mother and father chatting in the front yard, his two young daughters munching chocolate ice cream bars.
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- FILE This undated photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Carman Deck. Missouri inmate Carman Deck is scheduled to die by injection on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, for killing a couple during a robbery at their eastern Missouri home in 1996. Executions have become increasingly uncommon in the U.S., with just 11 last year and four so far in 2022. That's down from a peak of 98 in 1998. Photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections. (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP File)
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Execution of Missouri man just the 5th in US this year
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Tue,05/03/22-5:17AM , 847 Reads
A Missouri man who killed a couple during a robbery at their rural home more than a quarter of a century ago was put to death Tuesday, becoming just the fifth person executed in the United States this year.
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- St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner appears at her disciplinary hearing Monday, April 11, 2022, in St. Louis. Gardner has reached an agreement with the Missouri Office of Disciplinary Counsel in which she acknowledges mistakes in her handling of the prosecution of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens but won't face any severe penalties for those mistakes. (AP Photo/T.L. Witt, Pool via Missouri Lawyers Media)
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St. Louis prosecutor, disciplinary panel reach agreement
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Sun,04/10/22-10:46PM , 376 Reads
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has reached an agreement with the Missouri Office of Disciplinary Counsel in which she acknowledges mistakes in her handling of the prosecution of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens but won't face severe penalties for those mistakes.
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- This undated photo shows Maggie Drew. Drew, now 29, is among several former students of Circle of Hope Girls' Ranch who have alleged abuse at the Christian boarding school in southwestern Missouri. The husband-and-wife operators of the school have been charged with around 100 crimes combined. Religious boarding schools like Circle of Hope and a nearby facility for boys, Agape, have come under scrutiny amid tales of abuse, prompting a new state law providing greater oversight. (photo by Maggie Drew via AP)
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Missouri regulates boarding schools after abuse allegations
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Sat,04/02/22-8:47AM , 323 Reads
Maggie Drew’s dad sent her to Circle of Hope Girls’ Ranch in Missouri in 2007, hoping strict Christian teachings would stop his 14-year-old daughter’s teenage rebellion.
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