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.
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Twenty-seven people have died in car crashes this year, along with four pedestrians. Drivers have injured another 134 pedestrians and four cyclists. -
Mayor Tishaura Jones is pushing the board to pass the legislation, which she unveiled in August after a roundtable with survivors of gun violence.
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St. Louis 14th Ward Alderman Rasheen Aldridge talks guns, the city jail and the Rams settlement money.
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Special Agent in Charge Jay Greenberg says 300 educators attended training on how to implement threat assessment teams over the summer.
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Technicians from the car company will be at the Urban League’s Jennings location from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sept. 9 and 10. Of the more than 1,600 auto thefts reported to St. Louis County police this year, about a quarter have been of Hyundais.
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Jean Peters Baker is named as a respondent in a lawsuit challenging Missouri’s near-total ban on abortion. She is asking the judge for permission to raise her own legal challenges to the law.
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A new law on oversight took effect in 2022 but immediately faced legal challenges. The work has also been delayed by disputes over access to complaints and to the City Justice Center, St. Louis’ jail.
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The city’s charter has required most full-time employees to live in the city since 1914. Voters rejected an effort to lift that requirement in 2020.
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Two inmates with a history of disciplinary problems took the guard, a man in his 70s, hostage during breakfast service around 6 a.m. A police SWAT team had to use less-than-lethal force to rescue him.
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Live Free USA, a faith-based organization out of Oakland, will fill the training and technical support role previously occupied by Cure Violence Global. Mission: St. Louis will be in charge of hiring the people to do the interruption work in the community, a role previously held by Employment Connection and the Urban League.
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After a Cole County judge invalidated the regulations in 2021, then-Attorney General Eric Schmitt decided not to appeal the case. Local governments, which had used their authority granted by the regulations to issue pandemic-era restrictions such as mask mandates, wanted the right to defend them in court.
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The new three-year deal includes 3% raises in each of the next two years, higher pay for later or busier bus routes and a $7,000 ratification bonus. Some or all of that bonus can be directed to a 401(k) retirement plan set up by Metro.
