Luke Nozicka

Vincent Simmons filed a federal lawsuit last week against the police board and the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officer who shot him.

The lawsuit, against the police board and an officer, alleges excessive force, among other claims.

The board has been under a microscope as it signed off on a permit allowing developers to build a data center as part of a district in Midtown St. Louis.

Federal prosecutors said the teenager was driven in handcuffs from California to a Christian reform school in southwest Missouri. Agape Boarding School later closed amid an abuse scandal.

The CEO of Kanakuk Kamps, a Christian summer camp in southwest Missouri plagued by a history of sexual abuse, is said to be retiring later this year.

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In four Midwestern states, immigrants routinely won habeas corpus cases in federal courts. But the legal landscape is changing.

A man who fled an uprising in the Middle East decades ago, and whose son serves in the U.S. Air Force, was taken into custody during a routine immigration appointment in Des Moines, Iowa.

When Taylor Kiesel arrived at Change Academy at Lake of the Ozarks, a youth residential treatment center in Missouri, another student cautioned her.

Fifteen people say they were physically assaulted by staff, and some sexually abused by other residents, at Change Academy at Lake of the Ozarks, a youth residential treatment center in Missouri that takes in children from across the country.