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The family of a Kansas lawmaker’s 10-year-old son killed last summer on what was billed as the world’s tallest water slide reached a settlement Wednesday with the park’s owner and the raft’s manufacturer. Terms of the deal filed in Kansas’ ...

Western District Court of Appeals clerk Terence G. Lord will retire July 1. The court has appointed Susan Sonnenberg, its staff counsel, to replace Lord. Lord joined the court in 1977 as a law clerk for Judge Ronald Somerville after ...

An appellate court on Tuesday agreed that St. Louis County lacks the authority to impose standards on police departments within its borders. County lawmakers enacted an ordinance in December 2015 setting minimum licensing, hiring and training standards for the 57 ...

An effort to target crime and improve life in 15 St. Louis neighborhoods is off to a slow start. In December 2015, Mayor Francis Slay released a two-year plan to target 12 north St. Louis and three south side neighborhoods. ...

Missouri Gov.-elect Eric Greitens is standing firm on his decision to not support state funding for stadiums, including the proposed $200 million soccer stadium in downtown St. Louis. “To be very clear, I have completely ruled out state funding for ...

An election that saw Republicans gain power in Missouri and the departure of the Rams were among the top 10 stories in Missouri in 2016. The full list is: ELECTION Republicans won from president on down the ballot in the ...

Prosecutors are trying to seize two properties where a man says he was held during a kidnapping involving a St. Louis-area executive. Prosecutors say the victim was abducted Nov. 21 and taken to a home where he was beaten, assaulted ...

St. Louis County Judge Michael Burton must stay arbitration and reinstate a case involving the Rams’ lease on a training facility on the circuit court docket, following an appellate court decision Tuesday. The underlying case involves a lease the former ...

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated the law license of former St. Louis Mayor Freeman Bosley Jr. Bosley’s law license was suspended for at least six months in September 2014 over allegations he mishandled client money. A disciplinary panel ...

A Missouri appeals court upheld a $9 million jury award against a caregiver whose husband raped and impregnated a developmentally disabled woman in St. Joseph. The verdict was the 17th largest plaintiffs’ win of 2015, as tracked by Missouri Lawyers ...

Gov. Jay Nixon has appointed Ellen Wyatt Dunne as an associate circuit judge in St. Louis County. The position became vacant through the retirement of Patrick Clifford. Dunne is a partner at Blitz, Bardgett & Deutsch in Clayton, where she ...