‘It’s time for the city to cough up my guns’: Mark McCloskey throws down after judge expunges convictions against him, wife
A St. Louis judge this week expunged misdemeanor convictions against Mark McCloskey and his wife, Patricia, following a high-profile incident in June 2020 in which the couple stood with guns outside their home and confronted a mob of Black Lives Matter protesters. McCloskey is now asking for his firearms to be returned, saying in an […]
Mark and Patricia McCloskey records expunged after St. Louis couple waved guns at BLM protesters
A judge has expunged misdemeanor convictions of a St. Louis couple who pointed guns at anti-racism protesters outside their home in 2020. Now they want their guns back. Attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey filed a motion in January to expunge the convictions. Judge Joseph P. White wrote in his order Wednesday that the purpose of […]
Pete McCloskey, GOP congressman who once challenged Nixon, dies at 96
Pete McCloskey — the environmentalist, anti-war California Republican who co-authored the Endangered Species Act and co-founded Earth Day — has died. He was 96 years old. Fourth-generation Republicans are ‘conventional’ teddy roosevelt”, he used to say, McCloskey represented the 12th Congressional District for 15 years and ran for president against incumbent Richard Nixon in 1972. […]