Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates edged down this week to their lowest levels of the year, offering a continued incentive for purchasing during the spring home-buying season. The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate loan touched its lowest point in nearly three years, ...
Read More »Report: US medicine spending up 8.5 percent 2015
U.S. spending on prescription drugs rose 8.5 percent last year, slightly less than in 2014, driven mainly by growing use of ultra-expensive new drugs and price hikes on other medicines. A report from data firm IMS Health estimates patients, insurers, ...
Read More »Conservative lawmakers drive backlash against LGBT rights
Year after year, South Carolina Sen. Lee Bright has watched as gays won more rights through legislation and the courts. And as he sees proposals elsewhere in the U.S. aimed at allowing transgender people to use the bathroom that conforms ...
Read More »EPA: No changes to federal lead water rule until next year
The Environmental Protection Agency’s top water regulator said Wednesday that officials are working urgently to strengthen a federal rule limiting lead and copper in drinking water — a key focus in the ongoing lead-contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan. But Joel ...
Read More »Obama’s power over immigration drives Supreme Court dispute
The raging political fight over immigration comes to the Supreme Court on Monday in a dispute that could affect millions of people who are in the United States illegally. The court is weighing the fate of Obama administration programs that ...
Read More »SBA opens local centers for disaster loan applicants
The Small Business Administration says business owners affected by the summer’s severe storms and flooding will have access to low-interest federal disaster loans through. Through Thursday, Sept. 10, SBA representatives will be available to meet with and answer questions for ...
Read More »Court finds probable cause, despite officer’s doubts
A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck a serious blow to a Jefferson County man’s civil rights lawsuit against the local sheriff’s department. Thomas Bowden alleged that his Fourth Amendment rights were violated in 2009, when he was arrested after ...
Read More »Appeals court upholds judgment despite juror Google search
A Missouri appeals court upheld a $3 million judgment for a former police officer in a discrimination case despite a juror’s Google search on punitive damages during deliberations.
Tagged with: Kevin Hink Patricia Cohen Robert M. Clayton III Roy Richter St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Tanisha Ross-Paige
Read More »St. Louis County Courts main entrance to move
The St. Louis County Courts Building main entrance will move to 105 S. Central Ave. effective June 15, the court announced Wednesday.
Tagged with: St. Louis County Circuit Court St. Louis County Courts Building
Read More »Judge favors widow in dispute over real estate magnate’s will
A St. Louis County judge upheld a version of real estate magnate Robert Kaplan’s trust that left tens of millions of dollars in assets to his widow.
Tagged with: Bob Blitz Carolyn Whittington Christine Murray-Kaplan Christopher Bauman Robert Kaplan
Read More »St. Louis County jury awards woman $77M against Wells Fargo over handling of trust
Jurors awarded a St. Louis County woman $77 million against Wells Fargo in a lawsuit over the bank’s predecessors’ handling of a family trust. St. Louis County Circuit Judge Carolyn Whittington will decide damages in the lawsuit over a prominent ...
Tagged with: Barbara Morriss Carolyn Whittington Wells Fargo
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