Rachel Lippmann
Justice ReporterRachel Lippmann covers courts, public safety and city politics for St. Louis Public Radio. (She jokingly refers to them as the “nothing ever happens beats.”) She joined the NPR Member station in her hometown in 2008, after spending two years in Lansing covering the Michigan Capitol and various other state political shenanigans for NPR Member stations there. Though she’s a native St. Louisan, part of her heart definitely remains in the Mitten. (And no, she’s not going to tell you where she went to high school.)
Rachel has an undergraduate degree from the Medill School of Journalism, and a master’s in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois at Springfield. When she’s not busy pursuing the latest scoop, you can find her mentoring her Big Brothers Big Sisters match, hitting the running and biking paths in south St. Louis, catching the latest sporting event on TV, playing with every dog she possibly can, or spending time with the great friends she’s met in more than nine years in this city.
Rachel’s on Twitter @rlippmann. Even with 240 characters, spellings are still phonetic.
-
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey had asked the judges to review a temporary pause on the enforcement of the state’s near-total ban on abortion and other regulations designed to make the procedure more difficult to obtain. -
Chaman Silverio Balbuena, 31, is accused of helping route cash from the victims to the Dominican Republic. -
Tonia Haddix pleaded guilty in March to perjury and obstruction of justice. She was subsequently arrested last month after federal law enforcement found a secret chimpanzee on her property in Camden County, violating several terms of her bond. -
No one was injured in the fire, which damaged three vehicles. The Regional Bomb and Arson Squad and the FBI are also investigating -
The multimedia art installation and reporting project features six original portraits by local artist Cbabi Bayoc, inspired by a years-long investigation by St. Louis Public Radio, APM Reports and The Marshall Project into the more than 1,000 unsolved homicides over the last decade. -
The city sheriff’s department remains in possession of a second firearm. -
The state’s homicide victimization rate for its Black residents was 54.9 per 100,000 people in 2023, well above the national rate of 26.6 per 100,000. -
The Democratic county executive faces two felony and two misdemeanor charges, accused of using county funds to send a mailer that could be seen as opposing a measure that was on the April ballot. -
The 1:20-scale model of the Admiral began life sailing on the Meramec River, then transitioned to a Labor Day parade float. Its final act will be staged at the National Museum of Transportation. -
Haddix was arrested July 19 after federal law enforcement found a female chimpanzee on her property in Camden County, in violation of several terms of her bond. -
Law enforcement reported finding the female chimp in a cage on Tonia Haddix’s property on July 9.
-
Danielle Bertothy admitted that she poured gasoline on a bar that she had twice been asked to leave. The fire seriously damaged four businesses in a municipality in southwest Puerto Rico.
