MLM Counties News. Notices. Need-to-know Information.

Kansas City lawyers will have a chance to earn continuing legal education credits from Cuba in 2017. The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association announced Monday that registration is now open for a CLE program in conjunction with Cuba Cultural Travel. ...

A motion filed in federal court in Kansas on Monday alleges recorded phone calls between attorneys and inmates at a Leavenworth detention center may go back as far as 2011 and involve inmates beyond defendants of a drug smuggling case ...

Questions over whether the proposed $12.2 billion merger of Westar Energy and Kansas City Power & Light is detrimental to utility customers could lead to possible rejection by Missouri regulators. Missouri-based Great Plains Energy announced in May that it had ...

The deep-fried Twinkie is jumping from the state fair to the home freezer. Hostess Brands, the maker of lunchbox treats like Ho Hos, is launching packaged “Deep Fried Twinkies” starting Friday that mark its first foray into frozen foods. The ...

A federal judge has ordered Kansas and Missouri detention facilities that hold District of Kansas detainees to stop recording privileged attorney-client communications. The order from Judge Julie Robinson on Aug. 11 followed an emergency hearing in the government’s criminal case ...

A federal appeals panel should reconsider its reversal of a fraud verdict against Bank of America Corp. and $1.2 billion penalty resulting from the bank’s actions during the 2008 financial crisis, prosecutors say. Prosecutors filed papers with the 2nd U.S. ...

Four judicial candidates are almost certain to go (or, in one case, stay) on the circuit bench next year, following Tuesday’s primary election. In the 11th Circuit in St. Charles County, attorney Deborah Alessi bested Associate Circuit Judge Grant Gorman ...

An appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit alleging that the Clayton-based Cosgrove Law Group breached a confidential settlement involving its lead attorney, David Cosgrove. The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District also said that, despite the “embarrassing” nature of the ...

The owner of Sweetie Pie’s restaurants in the St. Louis area is suing her son, alleging trademark infringement because he is using the restaurant name at three of his own restaurants. Robbie Montgomery filed suit in federal court Monday against ...

The city of St. Louis has been ordered to pay nearly $1.5 million in damages to a man falsely arrested 14 years ago. The ruling Tuesday by a federal judge could end a four-year legal battle in which Michael J. ...

The dismissal of a taxpayer suit challenging Missouri’s death penalty protocol was affirmed by the Western District Court of Appeals on Tuesday. The suit was brought in Cole County against the Missouri Department of Corrections by former state representative and ...