St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch announced today that his office has charged Sunset Hills police officer Christine Miller with four counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of second-degree assault for the March 21, 2009, crash she caused which killed four people.Shortly before 2 a.m. that morning, Miller was driving the wrong way on Dougherty Ferry Road when her Mitsubishi struck a Honda turning right from Des Peres Road. The criminal investigation went on for seve
John YettawA Myanmar court yesterday sentenced John Yettaw to seven years of hard labor. As you'll recall, the Falcon, Missouri, man made international headlines (and earned a Daily RFT "Ass Clown" nomination) back in May when he entered Myanmar illegally and swam across a lake to visit the detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Yettaw's action allowed the Myanmar regime to charge the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi with violating the terms of her house arrest. Yesterday, a Myanma
Gary Kaplan's brother and sister have each been sentenced to house arrest for helping to make the now-defunct BETonSPORTS a billion-dollar offshore sports book.U.S. District Judge Carol Jackson yesterday ordered Neil Kaplan and Lori Kaplan-Multz each to spend ten months on house arrest. Both Kaplans reside on the East Coast, and originally hail from New York. That's where their big brother, Gary Kaplan, got his start in book-making, according to court records, before heading offshore to warme
