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The American Tort Reform Association ranked the city of St. Louis as its No. 1 “judicial hellhole” in a report released Thursday, largely due to this year’s series of large jury awards in lawsuits alleging that talcum powder causes ovarian ...

A Missouri appeals court ruled Tuesday that a man caught with a gun in his bag at airport security can have his arrest record expunged because, as a concealed carry permit holder, what he did wasn’t a crime. The Missouri ...

The Western District Court of Appeals upheld a $3.25 million jury verdict against a Grain Valley company awarded to a woman shot on its property by her ex-boyfriend. Truck insurance provider Owner-Operator Services, Inc., also known as OOSI, appealed the ...

A Jackson County jury on Thursday awarded more than $10 million in damages to a former employee of pest control company Orkin. Gary Gentry worked as a pest technician for Orkin’s Independence branch from 2007 until 2012, when he was ...

Monsanto Co. shareholders on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a $57 billion merger with Bayer AG, a deal that would combine two of the world’s biggest agricultural companies. Preliminary results showed that 99 percent of all votes cast favored the merger announced ...

A suburban St. Louis school district that includes part of Ferguson will appeal a federal judge’s order requiring a new method for electing school board members in an effort to remove racial bias from the process, district officials said Monday. ...

A southeast Missouri peach farm recently filed a lawsuit against Monsanto, saying the company sold seeds without safe herbicide, forcing farmers to spray illegal chemicals that drifted onto their farm and killed more than 30,000 peach trees this year. Attorneys ...

A lawsuit against a Kansas City firefighter and the Kansas City Fire Department over a motorcycle crash involving a city vehicle has ended in a $350,000 settlement. The Kansas City Council approved the settlement agreement by a unanimous vote without ...

A Grandview man will appear in court in December in connection with charges that he practiced law without a license in Kansas City-area municipal courts. Reginald Taylor, 40, has been charged in Jackson County with two counts of practicing law ...

William P. Johnson is the new dean of Saint Louis University School of Law, effective Jan. 3, the school announced Monday. Johnson will take the place of Mike Wolff, who announced in the spring that he was stepping down. Wolff, ...

A St. Louis County grand jury indicted Clayton attorney Scott Bailey for first-degree involuntary manslaughter, alleging he was driving under the influence of alcohol and speeding over 100 mph when his car struck and killed a woman. Bailey, 44, turned ...