The Northeast Ambulance and Fire Protection district must pay a $5,000 fine for violating the state's open meeting rules. (Rachel Lippmann, St. Louis Public Radio)
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch says the current board will "provide the Missouri Attorney General's office copies of notices for all district meetings, minutes of those meetings, all requests the district receives for public records and its responses to those requests."
Republicans in Missouri are praising Monday's ruling by a federal judge in Virginia that declared portions of the new federal health care law unconstitutional.
Dale Helmig's conviction status has been on the Missouri news radar since 2005, when his 1996 conviction for murdering his mother was thrown out, citing that jurors were given material during their deliberations that wasn't introduced in trial as evidence.
Today, he could be free on bond. But what happened between 2005 and now? A quick timeline: