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Bhavik Patel will take over as managing partner of Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard in November, the firm announced Tuesday. Patel is believed to be the first Indian-American to hold such a position among similarly-sized law firms in St. Louis. ...

Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon is doubling down on his stance that Missouri is a “national leader in college affordability” in response to a recent state audit that found in-state and out-of-state students are bearing more of the costs at public ...

General Motors Co. has settled two federal court cases related to its defective ignition switches, but its legal troubles stemming from the switches are far from over. GM settled the cases for an undisclosed amount, plaintiffs’ attorney Bob Hilliard said ...

The federal government Friday banned more than a dozen chemicals long-used in antibacterial soaps, saying manufacturers failed to show they are safe and kill germs. “We have no scientific evidence that they are any better than plain soap and water,” ...

The National Rifle Association is backing Democratic Attorney General Chris Koster for Missouri governor. The NRA’s political action committee on Tuesday announced it endorsed Koster over his GOP opponent Eric Greitens. Greitens is a former Navy SEAL officer and former ...

Consider Waukegan and Stevenson, two Illinois school districts separated by 20 miles — and an enormous financial gulf. Stevenson, mostly white, is flush with resources. The high school has five different spaces for theater performances, two gyms, an Olympic-size pool ...

A Missouri woman who has lived with a hypodermic needle lodged in her back for nearly seven years has been awarded a $507,000 judgment in a medical malpractice lawsuit. A St. Louis County jury last week sided with Claudia Ball ...

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s funeral was attended by thousands and carried on live television, but when the hearse pulled away from the church and headed to his burial site, his family asked for privacy and Supreme Court officials declined ...

A suburban St. Louis school district has agreed to pay $75,000 to settle a federal lawsuit alleging that it failed to protect a high school student from “severe, pervasive and persistent” harassment. A judge granted a motion last month to ...

Donald Trump’s aggressive rhetoric on illegal immigration has obscured a potentially historic policy shift — the Republican presidential nominee is the first major party candidate in modern memory to propose limiting legal immigration. In his speech on immigration Wednesday night, ...

A Missouri judge has fined the state Highway Patrol $5,000 after finding that it violated open records law in responding to requests from the family of an Iowa man who drowned while in custody. Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem ...