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Christopher Dunn will remain in prison after the Missouri Supreme Court entered a last-minute stay Wednesday evening, essentially pausing a St. Louis circuit court ruling that overturned his conviction on Monday.

The ruling, made by St. Louis Circuit Judge Jason Sengheiser, was put on hold after Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey on Wednesday obtained assistance from the higher court in halting Dunn’s release.

Dunn has been in custody for more than 33 years after he was convicted of murder and assault in 1991. In Sengheiser's ruling, he found the evidence was lacking and that Dunn was innocent of the charges.

But Dunn remained in custody at the South Central Correctional Center in Licking two days after the circuit judge ordered his immediate release. In a virtual emergency hearing Wednesday afternoon, Sengheiser gave South Central's warden until 6 p.m. to release Dunn or face being held in contempt. He noted that defiance of a court order would not be tolerated.

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Grace Rohloff, an Arizona State University student, was descending the cables on Half Dome with her father on July 13 when she slipped off, according to SFGate and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Rohloff's father, Jonathan Rohloff, told SFGate that he and his daughter had made their way to the peak of Half Dome when a storm suddenly hit. While trying to descend the precarious 400-foot cable section before rain made the granite peak slippery, Grace Rohloff lost her balance and tumbled down the mountain, the Chronicle reported.

"A black cloud was rolling in like gangbusters," Jonathan Rohloff told SFGate. "I was like, 'We have got to get down now, because we don’t want to be up here with any rain.' It rolled in literally out of nowhere."

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An Iowa law that bans abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy will go into effect Monday, July 29, at 8 a.m.

A district court judge filed a motion Tuesday to dissolve the temporary injunction next week.

This was following an Iowa Supreme Court decision last month that found the law, which bans abortion when cardiac activity is detected, can go into effect. The Court ruled that the abortion ban is constitutional and that an injunction blocking its enforcement should be dissolved. That started a three-week period for the lawsuit to make its way back to a lower court, but Planned Parenthood and the ACLU of Iowa’s request to reconsider the ruling made that take longer.

On Monday, the Iowa Supreme Court denied abortion providers’ request to reconsider its decision to uphold a law and sent the case to the Polk County District Court, where Judge Jeffrey Farrell was ordered to let the abortion ban take effect.

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Residents of Nashville, Tennessee, are struggling to find ways to respond to a sudden upsurge in neo-Nazi and white supremacist activity in the city as small groups of extremists have descended on the community carrying swastika flags, chanting “Sieg Heil” and handing out flyers saying “Diversity means fewer white people”.

Over the past two weeks, neo-Nazi groups and affiliated organizations, including the Patriot Front and a network calling itself the Goyim Defense League, have staged antisemitic stunts in the city center – including stopping passersby and asking them if they are Jewish. They have also disrupted a city council meeting.

While the groups have first amendment rights of free assembly, political and law enforcement leaders have encouraged residents to avoid engaging with the far-right extremists, as to do so would play into their desire for attention.

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Authorities have released shocking video that shows a white police officer in Illinois shooting a Black woman – who called police in fear of a home intruder – in the face, killing her.

Sonya Massey, 36, was killed early on the morning of 6 July by deputy Sean Grayson of the Sangamon county sheriff’s office in her home in Springfield, the Illinois state capitol.

Massey, whom her daughter confirmed was paranoid-schizophrenic, had called police because she thought someone was trying to break into her home. When police arrived, they began looking into Massey’s home with flashlights, a neighbor, Cheryl Evans, told the Guardian. Evans wondered why police had not knocked on her door, as they typically have done in the past when searching for suspects. Eventually, Grayson, who is white, and his partner entered the home where they began speaking to Massey.

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Two people died after a plane crashed in a farm field about 2 miles south of an aviation convention in Oshkosh, Wisconsin that commenced Monday

The crash was reported at Wittman Regional Airport at 12:15 p.m. Monday, the first day of the 71st EAA AirVenture Oshkosh convention, the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Police, fire crews and other first responders found the plane fully engulfed in flames at the convention grounds.

The sheriff’s office confirmed two occupants were on board the plane and both had died. Their names were being withheld pending notification of family.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation by NTSB, which responded to the scene by 2 p.m. No further details were immediately released.

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