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Voters Oust Half Of City Council For Greenlighting $6,000,000,000 AI Data Center

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Voters in a Missouri town ousted four city council members Tuesday for supporting an AI data center in the area.

Voters in the town of Festus, Missouri, voted against four members of the town’s eight-member city council who voted to greenlight a $6 billion data center project a week prior, according to St. Louis Public Radio. Anger has been brewing in several localities across the U.S. against data center projects, with voters in a Wisconsin town overwhelmingly opting Tuesday to crack down on a proposed development.

Tuesday’s vote followed months of at times raucous opposition against CRG Clayco’s plan to build a hyperscale data center on 360 acres in the town. The four city council members who lost their reelection bids were defeated by candidates who ran against the data centers and supported more transparency in the data center approval process.

“This data center fight has struck this community to the core and really, honestly ignited a community-driven effort here,” Dan Moore, who defeated pro-data center incumbent Bobby Benz, told St. Louis Public Radio. “People are awake now, and we’re not going to let this continue on anymore.”

Residents opposed to the AI data center flooded a local gymnasium to voice their frustrations during a March 31 city council meeting where the council voted to approve a framework of requirements for CRG’s planned construction, St. Louis Public Radio reported. (Read more from “Voters Oust Half Of City Council For Greenlighting $6,000,000,000 AI Data Center” HERE)

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Emergency Management Chief on Leave After Failing to Sound Sirens for Deadly Tornado: Report

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The city of St Louis placed its emergency management chief on leave after the staffer failed to activate the tornado sirens before a deadly twister tore through the Midwestern metropolis, according to reports.

Five people were killed, dozens were injured and thousands more were impacted by the tornado last Friday that critics say was made dramatically worse by the failure of the city’s emergency manager to sound the alarm after receiving a National Weather Service alert, according to CBS News.

Sarah Russell, commissioner of the Missouri City Emergency Management Agency for St. Louis, was not at the relevant CEMA office station just before 2:30 p.m. local time when the warning was issued — but was instead at an off-site workshop, the outlet reported.

Russell was forced to call the St. Louis Fire Department, which is the only other location from which the tornado sirens can be turned on, CBS reported.

St. Louis Fire Department officials said Russell gave “ambiguous” orders and therefore they did not sound the 60 outdoor tornado sirens placed around the city, Mayor Cara Spencer revealed, according to the station. (Read more from “Emergency Management Chief on Leave After Failing to Sound Sirens for Deadly Tornado: Report” HERE)

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Chinese Government Wanted to Own Another Piece of America, This State Stopped it

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The state of Missouri is swiftly moving to seize farmland and other assets owned by the Chinese government after emerging victorious in a landmark lawsuit.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey told Just the News that the seizure is part of Missouri’s effort to collect a $24 billion civil judgment against the Chinese government after suing it for the harm caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

During an appearance on “John Solomon Reports,” Bailey said the state “will start to identify and begin going to court to have court orders issued to seize those assets to make good on that judgment.”

The court’s ruling resulted from Missouri’s lawsuit against the People’s Republican of China and other defendants, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The court found that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) concealed the severity of the coronavirus by engaging int “a deliberate campaign to suppress information about the COVID-19 pandemic in order to support its campaign to hoard PPE from Missouri and an unsuspecting world.” (Read more from “Chinese Government Wanted to Own Another Piece of America, This State Stopped it” HERE)

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Woman Allegedly Molested 13-Year-Old Girl She Met While Attending Church, Police Say

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Missouri police say they arrested a 25-year-old woman for sexually molesting a 13-year-old girl she met while attending a church.

St. Louis County Police said they were alerted to the alleged abuse by the victim’s mother, who went to police after reading her daughter’s diary.

Police identified the suspect as Brandi James and held her at the county justice center on a bond of $300,000. She is charged with one count of child molestation and two counts of statutory sodomy or attempted statutory sodomy.

An investigation produced cellphone messages that allegedly support police allegations that James had engaged in sodomy with the child at least two times. The victim reportedly spoke to police about the incidents.

Police believe that James met the child while they both attended the House of Deliverance church in Bridgeton. (Read more from “Woman Allegedly Molested 13-Year-Old Girl She Met While Attending Church, Police Say” HERE)

Woman’s Murder Conviction Overturned After 43 Years Behind Bars: REPORT

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A judge in northwestern Missouri overturned the conviction of a woman incarcerated for 43 years for a 1980 murder after her attorneys argued that a disgraced police officer committed the crime, the Associated Press (AP) reported Saturday.

Judge Ryan Horsman of the 43rd Circuit Court of Livingston County ruled late Friday that there was evidence Sandra Hemme, 63, was innocent and that, failing a retrial, she therefore must be released within 30 days, according to the news report. Hemme’s trial counsel was ineffective and prosecutors failed to disclose helpful evidence, Judge Horsman reportedly said.

“We are grateful to the Court for acknowledging the grave injustice Ms. Hemme has endured for more than four decades,” Hemme’s attorneys told the AP via a statement. They would continue working to dismiss the charges and reunite Hemme, a psychiatric patient, with her family, they reportedly added.

There was no information from Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, the AP said.

“Hemme was wrongly convicted for the 1980 murder of Patricia Jeschke in St. Joseph, Missouri, after police exploited her mental illness and coerced her into making false statements while she was sedated and being treated with antipsychotic medication,” Hemme’s attorneys said via The Innocence Project, a New York City-based non-profit organization using forensic science and legal support to tackle wrongful conviction cases.

(Read more from “Woman’s Murder Conviction Overturned After 43 Years Behind Bars: REPORT” HERE)

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Lawmaker’s Missionary Daughter, Son-in-Law Murdered by Gang in Haiti

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The daughter and son-in-law of a Missouri lawmaker were brutally murdered by a gang while serving as missionaries in Haiti. The young couple, along with a third victim, were killed in an attack on Thursday night in the Lizon community, northern Port-au-Prince.

The victims were identified as 23-year-old Davy Lloyd, 21-year-old Natalie Lloyd, and 45-year-old Jude Montis. All three were members of Missions in Haiti, Inc., an organization founded by Davy’s parents, David and Alicia Lloyd. The compound included an orphanage, a school, and a church, and educated around 450 children.

Davy Lloyd grew up on the compound. His sister, Hannah Cornett, told the Associated Press, “Davy spoke Creole before he spoke English. It was home. Haiti was all we knew.”

Natalie Lloyd joined the organization in August 2022 after marrying Davy in June. They were “full-time missionaries” in Haiti, according to Natalie’s father, Missouri State Rep. Ben Baker. Montis served as the group’s Haitian director for two decades and was a pastor with a wife and two young children.

The trio was ambushed by gang members at the compound on Thursday. David Lloyd described the ordeal, stating, “They tied up my son and beat him. They got three vehicles. They got a bunch of equipment, money, I had my payroll in there for the week.”

Davy managed to untie himself, and the trio fled to a small house on the compound. Davy called his father during the chaos, saying, “Dad, something is going on. There are a bunch more guys, and I think they may be back.”

The gang members allegedly returned, shooting out the windows and eventually infiltrating the house. They murdered all three missionaries by shooting them. A video of the crime scene reportedly shows “three bodies sprawled on the floor, with those of Davy Lloyd and Montis having been burned.”

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Married Principal Admits to Shocking Murder-For-Hire Plot Against Pregnant Teacher

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In a chilling revelation that has sent shockwaves through the community, Cornelius Green, a former middle school principal in Missouri, pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a murder-for-hire plot he orchestrated against a woman he was having an affair with, who had become pregnant.

Cornelius Green, the married principal of Carr Lane Visual Performing Arts School in St. Louis, confessed to paying a friend $2,500 to kill Jocelyn Peters, a 30-year-old teacher at the nearby Mann Elementary School, along with “their unborn child,” according to reports from the Daily Mail. Peters, 27 weeks pregnant at the time, fell victim to the horrific plot when Green’s childhood friend, Phillip Cutler, allegedly entered her apartment with keys provided by Green and shot her in the head on March 24, 2016.

An indictment obtained by NBC News details the gruesome act, stating that Cutler used a “potato as a silencer to muffle the sound of the shot” as he killed Peters while she lay in bed.

Court documents, as reported by First Alert 4, reveal that Green was romantically involved with multiple other women.

Following the alleged murder, Green went to Peters’ apartment later that day and called 911 to report the shooting, according to local outlets. The former principal’s plea agreement acknowledges that the $2,500 he paid to Cutler was stolen from his school.

People reported that Green expects to be sentenced to life in prison for charges related to murder-for-hire and conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire. The plea agreement suggests that if sentenced to life, state prosecutors will drop murder charges against him, potentially sparing him from facing the death penalty.

Phillip Cutler, implicated in the murder-for-hire plot, will also face charges, with his trial set to commence on March 11.

The shocking revelation has left the community grappling with the heinous nature of the crime. In the aftermath of Peters’ tragic death, Mann Elementary School principal Nicole Conaway dedicated a memorial garden in her honor. Conaway spoke of Peters’ dedication to children, emphasizing her impact on their lives and character.

“She was someone who cared deeply about children, not only about their learning but about who they were in making them into better people,” Conaway said in an interview with Fox 2 Now at the time.

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State Issues Hotline to Report Abuse of Transgender Surgeries on Minors

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Missouri attorney general Andrew Bailey is taking extensive measures to protect children from the radical Left’s agenda.

Last week, Bailey issued an emergency hotline website so that people can report cases of affirmative care on minors.

It’s about protecting children for me,” Bailey told Fox News Digital. “We’ve got to inject some sanity into this conversation. Gender is an objective reality defined by biology, in the same way, that gravity is an objective reality. It is unhealthy to deny objective reality.”

According to the regulation, the state has seen a massive increase in transgender surgeries despite preliminary studies showing its long-term side effects, both mentally and physically, on a child.

“Skyrocketing number of gender transition interventions despite rising concerns in the medical community that these procedures are experimental and lack clinical evidence of safety or success,” the press release read. (Read more from “State Issues Hotline to Report Abuse of Transgender Surgeries on Minors” HERE)

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Missouri AG Announces Massive Restrictions on Sex Change Procedures, Declares Them ‘Experimental’

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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced sweeping new restrictions on sex change procedures including puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in a Monday press release.

Bailey issued an emergency regulation clarifying that gender transition interventions are “experimental” and therefore subject to existing state law requiring strict guardrails, particularly in the form of more rigorous informed consent procedures, according to the release. His office is currently investigating the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital following whistleblower allegations that the clinic was rushing children into gender transitions with insufficient mental health screening, sometimes against the wishes of parents.

“As Attorney General, I will protect children and enforce the laws as written, which includes upholding state law on experimental gender transition interventions,” Bailey said in the press release. “Even Europe recognizes that mutilating children for the sake of a woke, leftist agenda has irreversible consequences, and countries like Sweden, Norway, and the United Kingdom have all sharply curtailed these procedures. I am dedicated to using every legal tool at my disposal to stand in the gap and protect children from being subject to inhumane science experiments.”

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Lethal Injection: State That Could Become the First To Execute Transgender Woman

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Missouri may be the first state to ever execute a transgender woman in the United States, unless the state’s governor grants clemency, according to reports.

Amber McLaughlin, 49, is a transgender woman and is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Tuesday after being found guilty of killing a former girlfriend in 2003.

McLaughlin was tried as Scott McLaughlin and did not transition until after being sentenced to prison. . .

On the night of Nov. 20, 2003, Guenther’s neighbors called police after she failed to return home, AP reported.

Officers went to the office where Guenther worked and found a broken knife handle near her car and a trail of blood. The next day, McLaughlin showed police where Guenther’s body had been dumped in the Mississippi River. (Read more from “Lethal Injection: State That Could Become the First To Execute Transgender Woman” HERE)

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