Columbia Tribune

Jun 7, 2018

After 20 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit, Jessie McKim had his sentence commuted last week by outgoing Gov. Eric Greitens.

Apr 13, 2018

Lt. Gov. Mike Parson, who would succeed to the state’s top job if the sex scandal embroiling Gov. Eric Greitens results in resignation or impeachment, said Friday night that leaders must have strong moral values and put the state ahead of their own interests.

Sep 30, 2017

Local activists and criminal justice experts say Columbia’s “ban the box” law is not doing minorities any favors.

Feb 18, 2017

The Daniel Boone Regional Library has changed its signs indicating an outright prohibition of guns after the lawyer for state Rep. Cheri Toalson Reisch, R-Hallsville, sent the library board a letter telling it to change or remove the signs because state law doesn’t allow it to prohibit guns.

Jul 20, 2016

When the song “New York, New York” started playing Tuesday evening at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Tom Mendenhall was in heaven.

Sep 21, 2015

Citing an amendment voters added to the Missouri Constitution last year, a University of Missouri School of Law professor has initiated a lawsuit challenging MU’s campus gun ban.

Apr 25, 2015

An attorney representing a man accused of sexual assault argued Friday afternoon that evidence gathered from her client’s cellphone should be excluded from trial because it was obtained illegally and the search warrant went beyond the scope of an affidavit the department filed.

Jan 7, 2015

The attorney for a Mid-Missouri woman convicted last month of first-degree involuntary manslaughter in a 2012 head-on collision on Interstate 70 filed a motion for a new trial Tuesday.

Dec 11, 2014

The defense and prosecutors sparred over the validity of the Missouri State Highway Patrol investigation and questions about a sexual assault Wednesday in the trial of a Mid-Missouri woman accused in a fatal 2012 Montgomery County crash.