Rachel Lippmann
Lippmann returned to her native St. Louis after spending two years covering state government in Lansing, Michigan. She earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and followed (though not directly) in Maria Altman's footsteps in Springfield, also earning her graduate degree in public affairs reporting. She's also done reporting stints in Detroit, Michigan and Austin, Texas. Rachel likes to fill her free time with good books, good friends, good food, and good baseball.
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Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker is asking a judge for permission to raise her own legal challenges to Missouri's near-total ban on abortion, which she says is vague and inconsistent. Baker said the law flips the burden of proof required in criminal cases from the prosecutor to the defendant. -
After a Cole County judge invalidated the health powers of local governments in 2021, then-attorney general Eric Schmitt decided not to appeal the case. Local governments, who had used their authority to issue pandemic restrictions such as mask mandates, want the right to defend them in court.
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The Senate had been moving at a glacial pace all week, imperiling major pieces of legislation for the GOP majority.
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A male Ozark hellbender was raised at the St. Louis Zoo and released into the Current River in July 2019. Researchers found it protecting128 eggs in October and a later visit confirmed the eggs had hatched.
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Lawyers for St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner have asked a judge to throw out an effort by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to forcefully oust her from office, arguing that he has not met the high standard for removal under state law.
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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said Wednesday that he would file paperwork to start the process of removing St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner from office if she did not resign by noon Thursday She did not resign and and called Bailey’s action politically motivated.
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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey says if St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner does not step down by noon on Thursday, he will use a provision of state law to try to force her from office.
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The court has weighed several contentious issues in recent years, including expansion of Medicaid, municipal court reform and the limit of collective bargaining for state employees. It has agreed to take a case weighing the authority of local and state health officials to issue public health orders.
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Republicans scored big wins from Eric Schmitt in the U.S. Senate contest and Scott Fitzpatrick in the auditor’s race, but Democrats came out on top in Missouri’s only competitive state Senate contest and gained in the House.
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Police said they fatally shot the killer in an exchange of gunfire at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School. At least two people are dead and six others injured.
