MLM Counties News. Notices. Need-to-know Information.

The Jackson County Legislature has approved a $50,000 settlement with a woman who sued the county over the use of shackles during pregnancy and labor while in the custody of the Jackson County Detention Center. Brenda Hill, a spokeswoman for ...

Archie Williams has lived in the Parade Park Homes complex just east of 18th and Vine for 41 years and savors the neighborhood’s proud African-American heritage. Donna Jackson has lived there more than 30 years and now has a daughter ...

The deaths of two Kansas City, Missouri, firefighters during a wall collapse last year was partly due to the department’s culture of aggressive fire suppression, the department concluded in an internal report released Tuesday. The 71-page report also cites a loose ...

A 16th Circuit committee is considering changes to how domestic cases are docketed in Jackson County. The change includes spreading domestic cases among 10 of the judges in the circuit. Judges discussed the issue at their court en banc meeting ...

The Missouri Supreme Court moved Tuesday to dismiss a Kansas City attorney’s challenge to the Jackson County Circuit Court’s system of appointing pro bono counsel for juvenile cases. The court sustained the circuit’s motion to dissolve Jonathan Sternberg’s preliminary writ ...

The Missouri Supreme Court ordered the disbarment of a Lee’s Summit attorney Tuesday. The court found Brian C. Greer guilty of professional misconduct. Greer had six prior admonitions from the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, according to court records. He ...

An initiative proposing to raise Missouri’s cigarette tax to benefit early childhood programs is in jeopardy of not making the November ballot after a judge ruled its financial estimate is insufficient and unfair. The ruling Thursday by Cole County Circuit ...

The Western District Court of Appeals heard arguments Wednesday in the appeal of a dismissed taxpayer-standing suit challenging the state Department of Corrections’ execution protocol. The case comes to the appeals court from Cole County, where it was dismissed in ...

A judge said Tuesday that Kansas can’t require people to show proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote for federal elections at motor vehicle offices. U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson ruled that the state’s proof-of-citizenship requirements likely violate a ...

Correction: An earlier version of this post misspelled the last name of plaintiff’s attorney Kathy Hagen. We regret the error. A Kansas City woman who nearly died from an abdominal wall hematoma while pregnant and lost her unborn son recently ...

The dispute between two Kansas City attorneys over the 2012 dissolution of their firm is continuing to play out post trial. In a flurry of filings in April, plaintiff Floyd Finch made separate motions for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict, ...