Subject: Missouri State Highway Patrol

• Reminder: Don't Drive and Drown this Month

  Wikimedia CommonsApparently people do very stupid things in March, which is why the month is home to about a dozen different prevention weeks. My favorite thus far is the following pearl I received yesterday from the State Emergency Management Agency. The department has dubbed March 16-20 as "Turn Around, Don't Drown" week in Missouri. The campaign, according to SEMA, was inspired after a wet March 2008 when many folks misjudged flooded roads and delayed evacuating their homes resulting in an un

  March 4, 2009

• Felonies and Misdemeanors

  March 31, 1999

• Farm Team

  April 14, 1999

• State Officials Think Libertarians Want To Kill Police

  Missouri's Libertarian Party got all hot and bothered this week upon learning that Missouri law enforcement considers its members to be part of the "modern militia."commons.wikimedia.orgMissouri Libertarians don't want to get mixed up with this crowd.A February memo circulated among law enforcement agencies (and issued by Governor Jay Nixon, Department of Public Safety Director John Britt, Missouri State Highway Patrol Colonel James Keathley and Missouri Information Analysis Center Director Van

  March 18, 2009

• Memory Lane

  June 16, 1999

• TSA Detains Ron Paul Campaigner at Lambert; Asks Him: "Are You From This Planet?"

  Remember that controversial memo Missouri officials circulated to law enforcement this February? You know, the one that lumped followers of Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty (and other political organizations) as possible militia members? campaignforliberty.comSteve BierfeldtWell, that memo is getting a new round of attention today courtesy of the Washington Times. The right-leaning paper reports that Transportation Security Administration officials at Lambert Field detained and harassed Steve Bie

  April 6, 2009

• Tuesday, April 7: Morning's Newz

  It's election day in St. Louis and other locales. Election officials in St. Louis are predicting low turnouts, which should help the incumbent mayor -- Francis Slay -- topple Maida Coleman. Meanwhile, in Town & Country alderman John Hoffmann fights the good fight against incumbent mayor Jon Dalton. The trial involving Lewis Greenberg and his eccentric lawn art in Ballwin gets underway today. The Missouri Highway Patrol has re-assigned the official who circulated a controversial memo in Febru

  April 7, 2009

• Fried Rice: Lucas Park residents are fed up with the Rev. Larry Rice and the homeless shelter he runs

  August 6, 2008

• Out on the Missouri prairies, an odd collection of lawmen hunt modern-day cattle thieves.

  April 11, 2007

• This Is Your Brain on Meth

  Unreal catches up with a crystal-meth cooker gone straight, chats with an Andrew W.K.-endorsed candidate and gets local businesses' take on gay marriage; plus we totally freak out about West Nile, and Bill Haas offers something for the ladies

  June 23, 2004

• Carnage

  Despite the cost, local cops can't resist deadly pursuits

  June 11, 2003

• Solitary Man

  January 23, 2002

• Lead Into Gold

  December 12, 2001

• The Buck Stops Here

  December 27, 2000

• Speed Demons

  December 13, 2000

• Joker's Wild

  November 1, 2000

• Gun Club

  August 2, 2000

• Blue-Light Special

  August 2, 2000

• The Albatross

  June 7, 2000

• Show Me E.T.

  February 9, 2000

• Where Not to Drink and Drive this 4th of July Weekend

  flickr.com/photos/fensterbmeIt's not that we here at Daily RFT endorse drinking-and-driving. We don't. (Truth be known, we're much bigger fans of drunk jazzercising.) But for those who do plan to imbibe this three-day weekend and get behind the wheel, here's a few areas you'll definitely want to avoid. Olivette: The city sent out a press release earlier this week saying that it's ramping up its sobriety checkpoints throughout the month of July. Random motorists will be pulled over for tests thro

  July 2, 2009

• Oh, Meth! New Campaign Against Meth Use Hopefully as Catchy as Old One

  As we reported last week, U.S. "Drug Czar" Gil Kerlikowske is in St. Louis today to unveil the White House Office of National Drug Policy's new anti-meth campaign. Here's hoping the campaign is as good as the last one featured here.  Continue on to view the full press release of today's announcement and see a spirited cover of the PSA above! 

  September 1, 2009

• Photos: Dogs Rescued from Largest Dog-Fighting Ring in U.S. History

  Photo: Jennifer SilverbergMeet Junior. He's an eleven-year-old American Pit Bull Terrier who was handed over to Broken Hearts, Mended Souls Rescue. See more photos of rescued dog-fighting dogs.​Six dogs rescued from the largest dog-fighting ring in U.S. history were put up for adoption this week with rescue groups in Missouri and California. The dogs represent just a small fraction of the more than 500 canines rescued from the criminal syndicate this past summer. See photo slide show of r

  October 15, 2009

• King Khan & BBQ Show A No Show In St. Louis. Under Arrest in the Midwest? Deer Tick To the Rescue!

  King Khan & BBQ.UPDATE 11:30 a.m.: The Pitch Our sister paper in Kansas City, reports on the situation: "The booking agent confirmed that the band was arrested yesterday in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The tour manager remains in jail, but everyone else is out on bail. No word of the charges yet, but the band will not be performing tonight."Police in Hopkinsville would not confirm or deny that the members of the band were detained in there last night. We are awaiting a call back from a sergeant i

  November 13, 2009

• A Trip to the Sprawling Weed Fields of...Nebraska?

  Remember ditch weed? That lowly form of cannabis that the Missouri Highway Patrol loves to spend time and money eradicating? Well, here's a little history lesson on the stuff for you, courtesy of local pot activist Mark Pedersen and plant geneticist Dr. Dave West.The pair were traveling through eastern Nebraska earlier this year on a trip sponsored by the medical marijuana advocacy group Patients Out of Time when they stumbled upon a massive patch of feral hemp (a.k.a. ditch weed).Though lengthy

  November 24, 2009

• Missouri Gaming Commission: Ex-Pinnacle CEO Guilty of Bad Behavior, Innocent of Crime

  Image Via​You can bet that ex-casino boss Dan Lee would like to take back a few things he said to Steve Stenger and Charlie Dooley.Early last month, when Lee was the CEO of Pinnacle Entertainment, the Vegas-based company that owns and operates three casinos in the St. Louis area, he planted his foot firmly in his mouth when he angrily told Stenger -- at a public meeting no less -- that the county councilman had "made the worst mistake of his political career" by voting to allow a Pinnacle riva

  December 16, 2009

• Missouri Supreme Court to Weigh In Today on Red-Light Cameras

  ​Five years after they first began popping up in intersections across Missouri, red-light cameras are finally having their day before the state's highest court. Today the Missouri Supreme Court will hear the case of Adolph Belt Jr. a retired Missouri Highway Patrol trooper, who's fighting the red-light ticket he received in Springfield in 2008. Belt is challenging the way the camera system works in Springfield -- as well as municipalities such as St. Louis -- in which tickets from the cameras

  January 27, 2010

• Missouri: Nation's Meth Capital, Again

  Did ya here? We're No. 1!​Missouri has once again been ranked as the nation's biggest meth-producing state based on the number of drug labs busted last year. According to Missouri Highway Patrol figures published today in the Post-Dispatch, law enforcement seized 1,774 meth labs in 2009 -- up 20 percent from the 1,487 confiscated in 2008. Missouri outpaced the No. 2 state -- Indiana -- which had 1,096 meth lab busts in 2009. Jefferson County, Missouri, led the state with 227 labs confiscated l

  February 3, 2010

• Missouri, Kansas Lawmakers Cracking Down on Fake Marijuana, K2

  ​It's perfectly legal, and according to its users it gets you stoned to the bejesus, just like regular marijuana. The product, K2, is for sale at a few tobacconists and head shops in the St. Louis area and sells for around $10 a gram. On Tuesday, Kansas lawmakers passed legislation that would make that state the first in the nation to outlaw fake pot. And Missouri lawmakers aren't far behind with their own bill to criminalize the stuff.

  February 4, 2010

• Missouri State Troopers Nab 3,700 Pounds of Marijuana

  Missouri Highway PatrolA file photo from a 2009 Missouri bust that netted just 1,350 pounds of pot.​Updated: 3:27 p.m.Just spoke to Sgt. Jim Haggett of the Missouri Highway Patrol's Troop E. Haggett informs that while large, Sunday's bust of 3,669 pounds of pot is shy of the record 4,100 pounds of marijuana seized by his fellow Troop E officers a few years back. Oh, and the biggest pot bust ever in Missouri by the highway patrol? That would be the 6,800 pounds confiscated by troopers outside S

  February 10, 2010

• Cash-Strapped Government, Huh? Why Don't These Agencies Pick Up Their Money?

  ​Did you hear the guy who called in to Charlie Brennan's show on KMOX this morning? Said fella claimed that if you punch "St. Louis" or "Missouri" into the state treasurer's database of unclaimed property -- that's code for dinero, folks -- you'd find all kinds of local and state agencies with dollars and cents just waiting to be picked up from Clint Zweifel's office. And he was right. Check this out:

  March 11, 2010