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The district judges of the U.S. District Court in St. Louis selected state appeals court Judge Patricia L. Cohen for a magistrate judge position. Cohen, of the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District, will fill a vacancy created when U.S. ...

Papa John’shas agreed to pay at least $12.3 million to settle a lawsuit with delivery drivers who claimed the company didn’t reimburse them enough for automobile expenses, dropping their pay below state minimum wages. Papa John’s International Inc. announced in ...

The director of the state’s public defender system Friday sent a scathing letter to Gov. Jay Nixon demanding $10 million in a supplemental budget and threatening litigation. Director Michael Barrett on July 31 had called for an unspecified increase in ...

A federal jury awarded nearly $7 million to a Lake of the Ozarks property investor after finding a title insurer’s handling of a claim caused the investor to lose out on potential profits. The investor, Captiva Lake Investments, also is ...

Correction: A previous version of this story gave an incorrect first name for attorney Jerry Wilding. We regret the error. After mix-ups and miscommunications about insurance coverage, a laborer who allegedly suffered a brain injury when he was struck by ...

Two journalists who sued over their arrests during separate protests in Ferguson last year settled their lawsuits with St. Louis County, which agreed to cooperate with efforts to remove information about the arrests from their records. Bilgin Sasmaz was arrested ...

The U.S. Department of Justice found that St. Louis County Family Court fails to give constitutional due process to children and discriminates against black children in delinquency proceedings. The department Friday morning released the findings of an investigation that started ...

City of St. Louis Municipal Court Administrator Catherine Ruggeri-Rea will pitch in for a few more months after she and her husband won a $70 million Missouri Powerball jackpot. Tom Rea, 62, matched all five white-ball numbers, as well as ...

A St. Louis County jury on a split vote gave a defense verdict in a trial over allegations that the former Monsanto’s chemicals caused two California men’s cancer. Richard Cherry and Kevin Kitchen were the first of several hundred plaintiffs ...

Plaintiff’s attorneys won an $11.5 million verdict in St. Louis Circuit Court late last week for the widow of a man allegedly exposed to asbestos while working on a U.S. Navy ship in the 1950s. The jury awarded $1.5 million ...

A Missouri appeals court upheld a $12.5 million verdict for a former southeast Missouri railroad worker whose right leg was amputated below the knee after a Crystal City railyard accident. A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals Eastern District ...