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After two decades, Missouri Supreme Court Judge Stith retires today
A 20-year chapter ends today for Missouri Supreme Court Judge Laura Denvir Stith. After serving on the high court for two decades, Stith is retiring.
Missouri Supreme Court Judge Laura Denvir Stith (Photo provided by Beth Riggert, Missouri Supreme Court)
The photos have come down off her office walls. Stith has packed up her certificates and awards she proudly showcased in her third floor office along West High Street in Jefferson City.
“This will be a big change. I’ve been thinking about when to retire for some time because of course I knew mandatory retirement was coming up at age 70 in a couple of years,” she tells Missourinet. “I don’t leave things to the last minute. I have been thinking of when would be appropriate to leave. I’ve had this in mind for a while and 20 years just seems like the right time.”
A local woman made her first court appearance Feb. 23, after the alleged home invasion/dual stabbing of two teens in a Castlegar home Sunday. The two teens are recovering, but there is a ban on the publication of information that could identify the victims, according to Daniel McLaughlin, Communications Counsel with the BC Prosecution Service. "The accused (29 year-old Sasha
YOUNGSTOWN When it comes to campaign money, the two Mahoning County commissioner races were at opposite ends of the financial spectrum.
More than $130,000 was spent in the race between incumbent David Ditzler, an Austintown Democrat, and Steve Kristan of Canfield, his Republican challenger, and both loaned money to their campaigns.
In the other commissioner’s race, incumbent Anthony Traficanti, a Poland Democrat, and Grant W. Williams of New Middletown, his Republican opponent, spent about $18,000 combined and $10,000 of that went to pay Traficanti to reduce his long-time campaign debt. That payment was made Nov. 23, 20 days after the election.
During the post-general election financial period, between Oct. 15 and Dec. 4, Ditzler raised $4,875 and loaned $5,000 to his campaign on Oct. 29. During the same time, Kristan raised $2,470 and loaned $11,083 to his campaign.
Tulsaâs Fraternal Order of Police had nothing to do with a dark money campaign that produced ads that distorted and misrepresented the positions of two Tulsa City Council candidates the union opposed, the organizationâs leader said.
Dark money refers to expenditures on behalf of campaigns without the original source of the funds being disclosed.
The Tulsa World reported in October that a Columbus, Ohio-based political action committee was behind a series of over-the-top mailers that portrayed District 7 City Councilor Lori Decter Wright as a carpetbagging liberal whose values donât align with Tulsaâs, and made District 5 candidate Mykey Arthrell out to be an extremist who supported defunding the police.