Missouri will get more than $280,000 from T-Mobile following claims that the company was unfairly charging customers for third-party text message subscriptions.
Read More »Executions, new death sentences continue to fall nationally
Despite a record number of executions in Missouri this year, executions and new death sentences nationwide dropped to their lowest numbers in decades in 2014, an anti-death penalty group said in a new report.
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Read More »Hell hath no fury like a tort reformer scorned
The Missouri Supreme Court has never been the American Tort Reform Association’s favorite group of judges, but this year the national business lobbying group was particularly peeved, ranking the state's high court as No. 6 of seven "Judicial Hellholes."
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Read More »Execution date set for 1998 murder
The Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday set a Jan. 28 date for the execution of Marcellus Williams.
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Read More »Missouri workers’ comp insurance costs could fall
The Missouri insurance department is recommending a reduction in the premiums charged to businesses for workers' compensation insurance.
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Read More »Bill requires check of employee resident status
All Missouri employers would be required to use a federal verification system to check employees' legal resident status under legislation introduced Monday by a Republican lawmaker that's aimed at curbing the number of immigrants working illegally in the state.
Read More »Koster limits own fundraising ability
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said Wednesday that he voluntarily would limit political contributions to his campaign from those under investigation by his office.
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Read More »Pre-election ruling suggests campaign law is unconstitutional
A federal court ruling in the run-up to this month’s election left a wisp of a cloud over a section of Missouri’s campaign finance laws.
Read More »Court says unarmed bank heist qualifies as robbery
The Missouri Supreme Court said Wednesday that an unarmed man who stole money from a bank without directly threatening the use of force is nonetheless guilty of second-degree robbery.
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Read More »Sifton announces run for attorney general
One of the Missouri Senate’s few remaining lawyers said Monday that he plans to seek the Democratic nomination for attorney general in 2016.
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Read More »Bomber: Ex-attorney’s criminal record supports setting aside conviction
Milton “Skip” Ohlsen III is arguing that his former attorney’s federal indictment is among “newly discovered evidence” that supports vacating or setting aside his 20-year sentence for a Clayton garage bombing.
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