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Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., talks during a news conference to call for a ceasefire in Israel and Gaza on Capitol Hill, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

War in the Middle East upends the dynamics of 2024 House Democratic primaries

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FILE - In this July 29, 2019 file photo, St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell speaks during an interview in Clayton, Mo. Bell announced Monday, Oct. 30, 2023 he will drop his bid to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley in 2024, and will instead make a run at a fellow Democrat in Congress — Cori Bush. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, file)

St. Louis County prosecutor drops U.S. Senate bid, will instead oppose Cori Bush in House race

By Jim Salter - Associated Press

In this July 29, 2019 file photo, St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell speaks during an interview in Clayton, Mo. Bell announced Wednesday, June 7, 2023 he is running for the U.S. Senate seat occupied by Republican Josh Hawley. Bell is a former member of the City Council in Ferguson, Missouri, the St. Louis suburb where 18-year-old Michael Brown's death at the hands of a police officer in 2014 helped spur the Black Lives Matter movement. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, file)

Missouri prosecutor Wesley Bell vies for GOP Sen. Hawley’s seat

By Summer Ballentine - Associated Press

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner sits behind her attorneys in a courtroom, April 18, 2023, in St. Louis. Gardner has filed a motion to set aside the conviction of Christopher Dunn, who has spent 33 years in prison for a killing. Gardner says, Monday, May 15, 2023, new evidence indicates that Dunn was innocent of the crime. Earlier this year, Gardner was successful in freeing Lamar Johnson, who was imprisoned for nearly three decades for a killing that he long claimed he didn't commit. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, Pool) **FILE**

Kim Gardner steps down as St. Louis’ elected prosecutor 2 weeks sooner than planned

By Jim Salter - Associated Press

No charges for Missouri officer who fatally shot suspect

By JIM SALTER - Associated Press

No charges for officer who shot man at St. Louis County mall

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St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Wesley Bell announces Thursday, July 30, 2020, that no charges will be filed against former Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson for shooting and killing Michael Brown Jr. on August 9, 2014 in Clayton, Mo. Bell said his administration reopened the case and spent five months reinvestigating. (Chris Kohley/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

Change laws that shield police, Missouri prosecutor says

By JIM SALTER and AARON MORRISON - Associated Press

FILE - Trinetta Brown, center left, 19, and Triniya Brown become emotional during a memorial service for their brother, Michael Brown, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, in the Canfield Green apartment complex in Ferguson, Mo. St. Louis County's top prosecutor announced Thursday, July 30, 2020, that he will not charge the former police officer who fatally shot Brown. But, he said, &quot;our investigation does not exonerate Darren Wilson.&quot; (Cristina M. Fletes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)

Prosecutor: No charges for officer in Michael Brown’s death

By JIM SALTER - Associated Press

Suburban St. Louis officer could lose job over Facebook post

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St. Louis County Prosecutor’s Office: 100 cases under review

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St. Louis County to review possible wrongful convictions

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This undated photo provided by the St. Louis County Police Department shows Ladue, Mo., Police Officer Julia Crews, 37, who was charged Wednesday, May 1, 2019, with second-degree assault. Authorities say Crews meant to use a stun gun but accidently shot her service revolver during a confrontation with a shoplifting suspect outside a grocery store. The 33-year-old woman who was shot remains hospitalized. (St. Louis County Police via AP)

St. Louis-area cop indicted for shooting shoplifting suspect

By JIM SALTER - Associated Press

Ladue police shooting investigation likely to conclude soon

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FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2018, file photo, the new St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Wesley Bell speaks during a campaign rally in Bridgeton, Mo. Prosecutors in St. Louis city, St. Louis County and Jackson County have all announced policies in the last few months ending prosecution of low-level marijuana cases. The goal is to free up time for prosecutors to focus on more serious crimes and to help users avoid the stigma of jail time. But some opponents say prosecutors are overstepping. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Urban prosecutors in Missouri put end to most pot cases

By JIM SALTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2018, file photo, Democratic candidate for St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Wesley Bell speaks during a campaign rally in Bridgeton, Mo. Wesley, the new St. Louis County prosecuting attorney, is so far declining comment on whether he will consider reopening the investigation into the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. Brown, a black and unarmed 18-year-old, was fatally shot by white officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9, 2014, setting off months of protests. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

St. Louis County prosecutor mum on reopening Ferguson case

By JIM SALTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2018, file photo, Democratic candidate for St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Wesley Bell speaks during a campaign rally in Bridgeton, Mo. Wesley, the New St. Louis County prosecuting attorney, on his second day in office, has fired the veteran assistant prosecutor who was largely responsible for presenting evidence to the grand jury that declined to indict the white Ferguson police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in 2014. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

New St. Louis County prosecutor fires some staff

By JIM SALTER - Associated Press

The Latest: County prosecutor makes new marijuana policy

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Activists concerned by prosecutors joining police union

By JIM SALTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 8, 2018 photo, Wesley Bell stands outside the Ferguson, Mo., police headquarters a day after he defeated longtime St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch in the Democratic primary. Bell's 57 percent to 43 percent victory over McCulloch, a white prosecutor first elected in 1990, is the latest win for the Black Lives Matter movement, which has increasingly shifted from protest to local politics in recent years. Voters concerned with the killing of unarmed black people by police have made their voices heard from Ferguson to Cleveland to Chicago. (AP Photo/Jim Salter, File)

St. Louis DA victory latest for Black Lives Matter movement

By ERRIN HAINES WHACK - Associated Press

In this June 30, 2018, photo, Wesley Bell, a candidate for St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney, addresses the crowd during a protest about the Trump Administration's policy of family separation and detention at Kiener Plaza in downtown St. Louis. St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch is facing Ferguson City Councilman Bell, a 43-year-old former prosecutor and judge. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

4 years after Ferguson, white prosecutor ousted by black man

By JIM SALTER - Associated Press