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A Missouri man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, six years after he pleaded guilty to storing his wife’s dead body in a freezer. Local news station KYTV reports Larry Dinwiddie, 59, of Marshfield, MO, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Monday. Prosecutors have dropped a count of abandoning a corpse as a result of […]
The comic book city of Gotham seems like a truly miserable place to live, in large part thanks to all the villains that infest it, and it looks like the Missouri State Highway Patrol accidentally tricked its residents into thinking they had their own wild DC characters running around. According to KSDK, on Tuesday afternoon people […]
62-year-old Missouri man Kevin Strickland was exonerated this week after spending over 43 years in prison, and just days after his release he’s set to become a millionaire. As the New York Times reported earlier this week, Strickland was convicted in 1979 for the murders of 22-year-old Sherrie Black, 21-year-old Larry Ingram, and 20-year-old John Walker. He has […]
A white Kansas City police officer was convicted Friday in the 2019 fatal shooting of a Black man. NBC News reports Eric J. DeValkenaere, 43, was facing charges of first-degree involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the Dec. 3, 2019, shooting of 26-year-old Cameron Lamb. Jackson County Circuit Court Presiding Judge Dale Youngs announced the verdict Friday following […]
A group of Missouri students who were disciplined over a racist petition have taken legal action against their school. According to the Associated Press, four freshman at Park Hill South High School were punished earlier this year after one of them created a Change.org petition that called for the return of slavery. The incident reportedly began […]
Graphic footage showing Missouri cops allowing a police dog to attack a Black man is drawing nationwide criticism, with one regional editorial board comparing the graphic video to Civil Rights Movement-era tactics used by now-dead Alabama racist Bull Connor. The footage in question, initially shared to Facebook and excerpted in the news clip above—viewer discretion […]
An inmate at Randolph County Jail in Missouri was wrongfully released over the weekend after she assumed the identity of another inmate, ABC-affiliate KMIZ reports. Ellen Renay Goble, who was being held on multiple charges, including resisting arrest, burglary, drug possession, and operating a vehicle without a valid license, was released on Saturday after her and […]
The couple who pointed guns at protestors as they marched towards the mayor’s home in Missouri during the wave of racial justice demonstrations inspired by the murder of George Floyd last summer have been pardoned by the state’s governor. According to the AP News, Missouri governor Mike Parson pardoned couple Mark and Patricia McCloskey. In June, Mark […]
Missouri rapper, visual artist, and videographer VNZA was shot and killed at a busy waterfront bar at the Lake of the Ozarks, the Kansas City Star reports. 27-year-old VNZA (born Vonza Watson) was shot in the chest shortly before 11 p.m. on Sunday at the Lazy Gators waterfront venue, authorities say. When police arrived, they found an injured Watson, and the […]
One half of the so-called “Ken and Karen” Republican couple, surely most known for being photographed while pointing guns at protesters in 2020, has announced a Senate run. On Tuesday, St. Louis attorney Mark McCloskey—the rifle-brandishing “Ken” of the infamous couple—announced his Senate run during an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show. “All we hear […]
