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April 18, 2012
Missouri House Passes "Ag Gag" Bill Designed to Stop Factory-Farm Investigations
The Missouri House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill designed to thwart undercover investigations into big agriculture. The legislation (HB 1860) mirrors a similar bill signed into law this year in Iowa and creates the crime of "Agricultural Production Facility Fraud" for anyone who obtains ... More >>
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March 22, 2012
Senate Passes Bill Criminalizing Protests Outside Churches
State Senator Robert N. Mayer (R-Dexter) successfully passed his bill (SB755) yesterday that makes it illegal to disrupt religious services at any church, mosque, temple or other place of worship. The bill was inspired by the actions of the Westboro Baptist Church at the funeral of Christina Gree ... More >>
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March 20, 2012
Possible Alternative to Illinois "Skin Tax": Annual License Fee for Strip Clubs
Instead of trying to tax strip clubs $5 per patron in order to fund aid to sexual assault victims, Illinois state senator Toi Hutchinson may instead propose raising the funds by levying an annual licensing fee against the clubs. This update comes from Micheal Ocello, president of the VCG Holdings ... More >>
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March 8, 2012
Is This is a Bomb Threat or a Hoax Phone Call?
A little after midnight on January 15, 2010, the following call came into Lambert Airport: Note that the the bomb-toting passenger was supposedly a black male named "Dorian." Well, no explosion ever happened, but this call was traced back to Dorian Williams, a 36-year-old black male from north count ... More >>
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February 14, 2012
Shamus Aid: Chris Ward Creates Benefit Album to Revive Fallen Wizard Entertainment CEO
Gareb Shamus was a colossus among men, founding Wizard Entertainment and turning it into the go-to source for news and views on collectables. For years he was on top of his fantastical world, running a company that produced widely-read publications such as Wizard Magazine and Toyfare Magazine. Yet ... More >>
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January 23, 2012
Prosecutors Drop Charge Against Marijuana Petitioners
Looks like peaceful protest still works. On Saturday morning, St. Charles City Attorney Mike Valenti officially dropped charges against two Show-Me Cannabis Regulation volunteers who were cited by police for "soliciting without a permit" on Sunday, January 15. The two were in fact gathering signa ... More >>
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January 4, 2012
The Salem Witch Trial of 2012 (Right Here in Missour-ah!)
Are good witches banned from the Salem Public Library, too?It's probably entirely coincidental that the Ozark town that keeps a strict filter on its Internet browsers to ensure that none of its patrons happen to stumble on any websites about Wicca is called Salem. Or that the library director ... More >>
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November 16, 2011
Missouri Supreme Court to Strip Club Owners: "Tough Titties!"
Justices uphold Missouri's nudity ban for strip clubs.The Missouri Supreme Court yesterday handed strip club owners yet another loss in their legal fight to overturn a sweeping law regulating "adult-oriented businesses." The law passed in 2010 prohibits exotic dancers from displaying their genita ... More >>
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November 9, 2011
OccupySTL Protesters and Reps from Mayor's Office Hold Meeting; Civility Ensues
Albert SamahaHow long will Mayor Slay let the OccupySTL tents stay in Kiener Plaza?Forty or so OccupySTL protesters and a handful of reporters stood outside the Broadway Central entrance of the Edward Jones Dome, in the rain, waiting for someone to open the doors. They could see security guards a ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
Judge KO's Prosecutor's Attempt to Seize RFT Notes in Knockout King Case
A judge has quashed a subpoena from the Office of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, which demanded that Riverfront Times reporter John H. Tucker produce his notes and testify about his interviews with Elex Murphy, who is in jail awaiting trial on a homicide charge.Murphy is the focus of ... More >>
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October 20, 2011
Jimmy Tebeau's Lawyer Moves to Dismiss Charges
Jimmy Tebeau's lawyer wants the feds to dismiss the charges against him.Attorneys for musician/concert impresario Jimmy Tebeau -- who currently faces felony charges alleging he ran a 350-acre campground in rural Missouri for the purpose of facilitating the sale of illegal drugs -- have filed a mo ... More >>
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October 20, 2011
Jimmy Tebeau's Lawyer Pushes Back on Criminal Charges
Jimmy Tebeau's lawyer wants the feds to dismiss the charges against him.Attorneys for musician/concert impresario Jimmy Tebeau -- who currently faces felony charges alleging that he operated his 350-acre campground in rural Missouri to facilitate the sale of illegal drugs -- have filed a motion a ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Westboro Baptist Church Wins Another Legal Battle in Missouri
Whatever your thoughts are about the "God Hates Fags" mantra of the Westboro Baptist Church, it cannot be said that the organization does not know its rights and how to defend them in court. Once again the controversial, Kansas-based church has won a legal decision in Missouri. The latest came ye ... More >>
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September 23, 2011
Angry Wash. U. Students Protest Ad in Student Newspaper, Calling it Racist
WikipediaHorowitzThe United Nations isn't the only place where Jewish-Muslim tensions have escalated this week. On the campus of Washington University, a small imbroglio over an advertisement placed in the student newspaper has generated quite a buzz. The dust-up began Monday, when the prin ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
Banned Books Restored to Republic, MO, School Libraries -- Sort Of
image viaGuess who left Hogwarts to go work at the Republic school libraries?Hey, guess what kids? Banned Books Week starts on Saturday, and the fine, upstanding citizens of Republic, Missourah, are all ready to celebrate. In June, you may recall, Republic's school board banned two books from ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
America's Got Talent Winner Runs for Missouri Office: Eight Musicians He Should Learn From
Neal Boyd's American dream includes serving in Missouri House of Representatives.Neal E. Boyd of Sikeston has already won lots of American votes. Enough to win the 2008 season of America's Got Talent, when he wowed audiences with his pop opera skills. Before finding reality-show fame, Boyd ... More >>
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August 10, 2011
Facebook Seeks to Dismiss Illinois Class-Action; Mothers Claim Children Exploited
Facebook has asked a federal judge in southern Illinois to dismiss a class-action lawsuit filed in June on behalf of two Granite City moms. The suit filed on behalf of the children of Melissa Dawes and Jennifer DeYoung alleges that Facebook inappropriately uses its "like" feature to monitor the ... More >>
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August 10, 2011
Internet Filter for Missouri Schools Censored LGBT Websites
The Trevor Project was one of at least 23 LGBT issue sites blocked by Netsweeper.Internet security software used by dozens of school districts in Missouri censored students from accessing websites dealing with LGBT issues. The Missouri Research & Education Network (MOREnet), a division of the ... More >>
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August 1, 2011
Student Suspended Over Threats to Kill "Midgets, Fags and Negro Bitches" Loses Appeal
A sophomore in the Hannibal School District fantasized about killing classmates -- but later claimed he was just blowing off steam. In 2006, a sophomore in the Hannibal, Missouri, school district confided to a classmate in a series of instant messages that he was angry about (what else?) being sp ... More >>
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August 1, 2011
Don't Worry Folks, Your Truck Nutz Are Safe in Missouri
trucknutz.comFake bull testicles swing into court this month.If you haven't heard (and how could you not, given the gravitas of the issue!?), a 65-year-old woman in South Carolina is scheduled for trial this month for having the, ahem, balls to flout the state's obscenity laws. Last month, Virgin ... More >>
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July 28, 2011
Take Me to Your Feeder: Welcome to the world's largest candy convention. Be advised: Resistance is futile.
trucknutz.comFake bull testicles swing into court this month.If you haven't heard (and how could you not, given the gravitas of the issue!?), a 65-year-old woman in South Carolina is scheduled for trial this month for having the, ahem, balls to flout the state's obscenity laws. Last month, Virgin ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
Support for White Cops Got Pair Fired in East St. Louis, Jury Finds
trucknutz.comFake bull testicles swing into court this month.If you haven't heard (and how could you not, given the gravitas of the issue!?), a 65-year-old woman in South Carolina is scheduled for trial this month for having the, ahem, balls to flout the state's obscenity laws. Last month, Virgin ... More >>
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July 15, 2011
East St. Louis Discriminated In Not Hiring White Officers, Federal Jury Finds
Photo: Jennifer SilverbergMayor Alvin Parks did not have much to smile about Wednesday.Two black residents of East St. Louis won a civil rights lawsuit this week in southern Illinois complaining that they were harassed and discriminated against when they recommended that the predominately black c ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
City's Sign Code Violates First Amendment, Appeals Court Rules
Jim Roos' big ol' sign at Interstates 44 and 55. Activist Jim Roos got slapped down in 2007 when he applied for a permit for his huge "End Eminent Domain" mural near Interstates 44 and 55. The city said "No," citing the sign code. But yesterday, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in turn slapped ... More >>
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June 10, 2011
Archdiocese Not Liable For Pedophile Priest Robert Johnston
courtesy of SNAP MidwestRobert Johnston: not the archdiocese's fault that they hired a perv.Score one for the Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis. Because, as a legal ruling today makes clear, even if a Christian ethicist would hold the church accountable for allowing a predatory priest to run roug ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
Oprah's Seven Best Food Moments
persephonemagazine.com Today the world bids farewell to "The Oprah Winfrey Show". Twenty-five years of gab, angst, couch-jumping, jailhouse interviews, favorite things, crazy giveaways, fad diets, weight loss, weight gains and lots of chow. No, we're not making any fluctuating weight jokes ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
Missouri School Illegally Censoring the Internet, Draws ACLU Attention
Don't tread on my access to health information.Updated at 4:50 p.m. with comment from school district's attorney.Updated at 3:30 p.m. with comment from the school superintendent.A school district in central Missouri is illegally censoring the internet, the ACLU says, and the organization is deman ... More >>
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May 10, 2011
Nacho Cheese, Raw Chicken, Bacon are Victims in Food Crime Wave
glocktalk.comDo not steal bacon. We know food prices are high, but is that an excuse for all the food crimes that have gone down in the past few days? Quincy D. Davis, DaQuan Marquis Wright, and an unnamed minor from Anderson, Indiana, were arrested on Sunday for bacon theft. The trio's ac ... More >>
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April 19, 2011
Canadian Libel Judgment Quashed by Missouri Appeals Court
The cover of Udis Sanchez Lord's autobiography, which got her in big trouble with her cousin -- and a Canadian court.Kidnapping! Land fraud! Cousins fighting with cousins -- even as one cousin rises from working as a fieldhand to achieve both her Ph.D. and win (drumroll!) the title of Ms. Asia In ... More >>
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April 15, 2011
UPDATE: Missouri Muslims Oppose Anti-Sharia Legislation
More than a hundred Missouri Muslims visited Jefferson City Wednesday to voice concern over anti-Islam legislation.Jim Hacking of the St. Louis chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) sent Daily RFT the photo above. Would you look at all those frightening people! Thank God (t ... More >>
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March 2, 2011
Homophobia is Protected Speech
It's a marketplace of ideas. Some of them are terrible.It's been a great week for folks who hate lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people -- and want the world to know about it.The Supreme Court today ruled 8-1 that those hate-spewing assholes from Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas are pr ... More >>
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February 28, 2011
Collinsville High Suspends Student for Wearing Rosary
Warning: Today's special deal on Overstock.com could get you suspended.Rodrigo Avila, a Collinsville High School sophomore, has been suspended for five days for carrying a rosary. It's not that Avila has been disrupting classes by reciting his devotions, annoying non-Catholics by conspicuous ... More >>
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February 4, 2011
Judge Throws Out Lawsuit Challenging Nudity Restrictions on Missouri Adult Businesses
A Cole County judge last week granted a summary judgment request that has -- for now -- thrown out a lawsuit challenging Missouri's recent restrictions on strip clubs and adult bookstores. The Missouri Legislature last year passed sweeping reforms that outlaw nudity at such businesses in addition ... More >>
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December 14, 2010
Where are WikiLeaks' Media Friends? [Updated]
Updated, click here: WikiLeaks Betrayed by MediaWhere are the First Amendment's establishment warriors as government-spooked businesses try to shut down WikiLeaks? Hackers with computers, not hacks with press passes, have been the first line of resistance. More to come.By Michael LaceyExecutive ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
The "God Hates Fags" Church Sues St. Charles County For Restricting Funeral Protests
godhatesfags.comShell hath no fury!On Monday, St. Charles County passed an ordinance restricting one's ability to protest a funeral. Huge bummer for members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, who like to picket at military funerals. They believe that God orchestrates the murder of Ameri ... More >>
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November 16, 2010
Strip Clubs Challenge Financial Impact of New Law
The new law bans strippers from appearing nude. They can't even wear thongs. Attorneys for sexually oriented businesses argued yesterday in court in central Missouri that the state legislature violated its own rules in passing a strict new law on sexually-oriented businesses. The law that went in ... More >>
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October 26, 2010
Concerned Citizens Win Round in Crystal City -- Internet Anonymity at Issue
A Jefferson County Circuit Court judge erred when he threw out a lawsuit filed by gadflies in Crystal City, the Missouri Court of Appeals said in an opinion released today.Jennifer SilverbergConcerned citizens rose up to fight a smelter in Crystal City -- and won one round today.The gadflies -- w ... More >>
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August 11, 2010
Lawsuit Filed to Stop Nudity Ban in Missouri Strip Clubs
It's on. The lawsuit Daily RFT first told you was in the works back in June was officially filed yesterday in Cole County. The suit names Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster as defendant and questions the constitutionality of S.B. 586. It further claims that lawmakers refused to do a proper f ... More >>
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November 3, 2009
Unreal Ponders: Should Yoga Centers Be Subject to State Sales Tax?
Today the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has an interesting story about the Missouri Department of Revenue's determination that yoga studios are fitness centers and therefore subject to the state's 4 percent sales tax on the latter.The yoga lobby -- OK, that's a stretch, but Unreal couldn't resist -- co ... More >>

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