Rachel Lippmann
Lippmann returned to her native St. Louis after spending two years covering state government in Lansing, Michigan. She earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and followed (though not directly) in Maria Altman's footsteps in Springfield, also earning her graduate degree in public affairs reporting. She's also done reporting stints in Detroit, Michigan and Austin, Texas. Rachel likes to fill her free time with good books, good friends, good food, and good baseball.
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A working group studying how to improve municipal courts in St. Louis is specifically recommending that the state Supreme Court force those courts to...
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(Updated 2:00 p.m. Wednesday with further statements from the St. Louis Cardinals.) In a statement released Wednesday, Cardinals general manager John...
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The Ferguson Commission agreed Monday night by a unanimous vote to adopt a new operating principle that requires its working groups to use a lens of...
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Updated as of 10:30 pm., April 22, 2015: The family of Michael Brown will file a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Ferguson on Thursday,...
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The appeals court judge now hearing municipal cases in Ferguson has limited the amount of fines and fees the city can collect from defendants facing...
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For the latest updates on this developing story, see our live blog. Two St. Louis-area police officers monitoring protesters at the Ferguson police...
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Ronald Brockmeyer, the municipal judge in Ferguson, has resigned less than a week after a scathing federal report called his court little more than an...
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The fallout from a scathing federal report on the police and court in Ferguson, Mo., has begun.The city's municipal judge has resigned, and a state appeals judge will start hearing cases instead.
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Former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson will not face criminal charges for shooting and killing Mike Brown in August, but he may still end up in a…
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Six months ago, a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., shot and killed a black 18-year-old. The area's 82 municipal courts came under sharp scrutiny and were targeted for major reforms.