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After being formally sworn in as a U.S. District Court judge in the St. Louis federal court Tuesday, Audrey Fleissig turns to thank longtime friend Karen Tokarz, law professor at Washington University. U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill and Missouri Supreme Court Judge Patricia Breckenridge, on left, applaud, as do attorney John Cowling, master of ceremonies, and the members of the court. Fleissig previously was one of the court’s magistrate judges.

Stinson Morrison Hecker Partner Brad Sandler talks with a client on the phone Monday in the midst of the move into his new office in the Centene Plaza building in Clayton. The firm relocated more than 100 attorneys and staff to the new building from another Clayton location.

Joel Dozier and Chris Summers hang bedspreads along the exterior of The Gift Station booth, one of the spaces at the Truman Markets, which opened Friday on a 20-acre site, about one-half mile south of Highway 370.

Attorney P. Michael Campbell, left, calls off until next week the foreclosure sale of the Sheraton St. Louis City Center Hotel & Suites. Campbell, of Stinson Morrison Hecker, was acting as trustee in the sale, which was continued until noon Sept. 15.

St. Louis County Circuit Judge Michael Burton speaks Tuesday before a task force on domestic violence convened by Attorney General Chris Koster at the Eric P. Newman Education Center in St. Louis.

John and Pattaya Bartels bid on a couple properties in their ZIP code Monday night at an REDC auction of foreclosures in St. Louis. California-based REDC held the last in a four-city auction series Tuesday night at the Kansas City Convention Center. Forty-seven properties sold for a total of $1.7 million at the Kansas City event, which drew 125 people, said Rick Weinberg, spokesman for REDC. The auctions work well to unload banks’ “massive inventory of foreclosures,” Weinberg said.

REDC bidding assistant Jet Savoy encourages a bidder to go higher at a Monday night sale of foreclosed properties at the Millennium Hotel St. Louis downtown. California auction company REDC reported more than 200 people attended the sale, spending $1.5 million. One St. Louis home sold for $4,000, a fraction of its previous value of $115,000.

Erica Isufaj, 4, sits with her parents, Robert and Rovena, as they wait to be sworn in as United States citizens in a Flag Day ceremony at the Old Courthouse in downtown St. Louis Monday. The Isufaj family is from Albania.

Jim Susman, executive director of the Lawyers Association of St. Louis, pounds in a nail alongside other volunteers on a Habitat for Humanity sit in North St. Louis Saturday. Ten association members worked on the frames of three homes.