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Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the couple seen protecting their home with firearms during unrest last summer, want their criminal case to be revisited by a grand jury after Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner was found by a judge to have ulterior motives in the proceedings.
“Due to the bias of Kim Gardner’s office, we believe the grand jury process was tainted and should be reviewed and revisited,” Joel Schwartz, the attorney for the pair, told the
Associated Press on Wednesday.
The McCloskeys were charged in July with unlawful use of a weapon in addition to evidence tampering following the circulation of the viral video that showed the duo confronting protesters in front of their St. Louis mansion following the death of George Floyd. Mark McCloskey, donning a pink polo, walked around his lawn with an AR-15, while his wife, Patricia, carried a silver handgun,
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In 2018, Brovont filed a suit claiming he was fired after raising concerns about staffing issues at Overland Park Regional Medical Center in Kansas. Brovont repeatedly sounded the alarm that EmCare staffed only one physician on the night shift to cover both the regular and the pediatric emergency department at the hospital, which is owned by HCA Healthcare.
A jury awarded Brovont $29 million in October 2018, which included almost $3 million in economic damages, $6 million in pain and suffering, and $10 million in punitive damages against each of the defendants, KS-I Medical Services and MO-I Medical Services (both are EmCare subsidiaries, the former in Kansas and the other in neighboring Missouri).
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Originally published on April 12, 2021 3:00 pm
Missouri has been ordered to cough up nearly $138,000 in legal fees and expenses after a judge ruled last year that it “knowingly and purposefully” violated the state Sunshine Law.
The Missouri Court of Appeals upheld a Cole County judge’s finding that the state ran afoul of the law when the Missouri Department of Health and Human Services sought to charge a genealogy research group nearly $1.5 million for state birth and death records.
Reclaim the Records, a California-based nonprofit whose mission is to make public records available online for genealogical and historical researchers, made the request in early 2016, seeking Missouri birth and death indexes since 1910. After more than four months, the Department of Health and Senior Services responded, saying it would cost more than $1.49 million to retrieve the records from its database.