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

The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 contains an addition to the Internal Revenue Code that allows for health savings accounts. A health savings account is a tax-exempt trust established for the purpose of paying qualified medical ...

The creative on the other end of the line hung up the phone with just enough force to let me know she was miffed at my answer to her question. “Sorry,” I thought to myself, “but that’s why your boss ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday concerning whether the imposition of the death penalty on 16- and 17-year-olds constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Last year, the Missouri Supreme Court held that the juvenile death penalty violated the Eighth Amendment’s ...

The Missouri Supreme Court put an end on Tuesday to an ongoing dispute between the city of St. Louis and the Junior College District of St. Louis, flushing 500,000 gallons of old water and a nearly $8.26 million damage and ...

Members of the Mortgage Bankers Association testified before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity last week concerning an increase of problems and costs associated with fraud committed against mortgage bankers. Mortgage industry witnesses called for prosecutors ...

Court minutes that can be accessed by computer are no substitute for complete court files, said the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, as it reversed a St. Louis Circuit Court’s decision to sentence a defendant as a prior and ...

Informed consumers are the best consumer, not only for themselves but often for those with whom they are conducting business. In the real estate industry, agents and brokers are learning it can be to their advantage to have clients that ...

Continuing its two-year trend of pushing the envelope in size, the law firm of Lathrop & Gage L.C. announced Monday that it has added three former partners from the firm Gallop, Johnson & Neuman L.C. “In a market where many ...

When an officer interrogated a driver and a passenger of a car about details unrelated to a traffic violation, he violated their Fourth Amendment rights, even though he did find drugs in their car as a result of his investigation. ...

Legal Services of Eastern Missouri held its annual awards ceremony on Friday to show the organization’s appreciation for the attorneys, legislators and businesspeople who have worked for justice for indigent Missouri residents. The first awards given were to individuals who ...

Raising money for worthy causes takes time. But with only a few weeks left in his term as president of The Missouri Bar, Bill Corrigan challenged the Board of Governors to help raise $100,000 for the bar’s new Loan Repayment ...