I noticed in the newspaper that the police department is running DWI checkpoints to catch drunk drivers here in Jefferson City at the end of February.
The deal is that the police get to stop your car and check you out to see if you are under the influence. Most of the time, stopping and examining [...]

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Senate Bill 912, sponsored by Sen. Kevin Engler, would create the crime of murder of a criminal justice official in the first degree (that is, the deliberate killing of police, prosecutors, judges and jailers).
We may ask–since plain-vanilla murder in the 1st degree can already be punished by death–how can things be any harsher? A [...]

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