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Proponents creating the crime of “coercing” an abortion are confident legislation would pass constitutional scrutiny if it’s challenged in court. There are two major elements to House Speaker Pro Tem Bryan Pratt’s legislation, which is currently pending in the Missouri ...

Michael Teer is a free man. He walked out of the St. Charles County Jail last Thursday after the Missouri Court of Appeals in St. Louis ordered that he be discharged. Teer killed four people and injured another in an ...

Law firms offering lawyers up to $75,000 not to work Latham & Watkins, the fourth-largest U.S. law firm, is offering incoming lawyers $75,000 to take the year off. Latham, which fired 190 lawyers and 250 staff last week, said it ...

Do you ever wonder if the ladies and gentleman inhabiting the halls of the U.S. Justice Department want to just throw in the towel on some of the cases from the previous regime? I mean, obviously the left is going ...

As hundreds of thousands of laid-off workers sign up for unemployment each month and major employers head for bankruptcy court, many Americans would find it oh-so-nice to land a job guaranteed for life. The United States has no kings or ...

Nationwide bankruptcy filings rose 31 percent in 2008 over the previous calendar year, according to information released last week by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Filings in the Eastern District of Missouri were up 22 percent over 2007, ...

Barack Obama, in his speech to Congress last week, painted a canvas of issues breathtaking in scope: creating jobs, rescuing banks, overhauling the health- care system, reforming education, fixing Social Security and reversing the nation’s direction on energy — all ...

Here we go again. The latest burst of regulatory rigor in response to a horse that’s already left the barn comes in the case of Poky Police versus WG Trading Investors LP of Greenwich, Conn., and Westridge Capital Management Inc. ...

Michael Stumm is as an accidental currency guy. Toronto-based Stumm is a founder of Oanda Corp., a pioneer in Internet-based foreign-exchange trading and information. It’s an unlikely career turn for a computer scientist who has done research at Stanford University ...

There are some gadgets that just about everybody has: A cell phone, a computer, probably a few TVs. But some of the most useful tech products out there have yet to become staples of the average person’s home. Here are ...

Just as investors were gaining confidence in the credit-market recovery, corporate bonds fell last month for the first time since October as the U.S. reces-sion deepened. The combination of a record $576 billion of bond sales this year in dollars, ...