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

While most casinos in Missouri and Illinois saw either declines or modest gains in revenues in March, Ameristar casinos both in St. Charles and Kansas City experienced double-digit increases last month, according to preliminary figures released by the Missouri Gaming ...

How does a minor automobile accident result in the driver becoming a quadriplegic? “That’s exactly what we want to ask Ford Motor Co.,” said John L. Cook with Cook, Barkett, Maguire & Ponder, L.C. in Cape Girardeau. This is with ...

A $2 million jury verdict against two Kansas City, Mo., police officers and the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners was upheld by a divided panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which found the police did not ...

Attorney General Jay Nixon warns Missourians to be on the lookout for a type of consumer fraud that comes with spring – home repair fraud. Every spring, con artists knock on doors offering to do home repairs and inspections. In ...

Truck drivers who lease the vehicle they operate are not exempt from coverage under the Missouri workers’ compensation statutes, ruled the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, clarifying the issue of who is covered by workers’ compensation insurance. The question ...

An IRS employee failed to maximize administrative remedies before bringing retaliation and discrimination claims against his employer, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday in affirmation of a lower court’s decision to deny requests for a new ...

The Law Library of Congress and the American Bar Association (ABA) Division for Public Education will commemorate Law Day with a panel discussion on “Representing the American Lawyer as Citizen.” The event will be held at the Library from 4:45 ...

An overzealous jury award exceeded a reasonable amount supported by the evidence, found the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, leaving the owners of a shoddily built house to decide whether they want to give some of their award money ...

There was a time when the concept of a wedding gift registry was left exclusively to high dollar department stores and spurred little interest to anyone but the bride and her friends. But statistics show that more couples are not ...

In a 2-1 decision, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, upheld three convictions of failing to report the abuse of a 78-year-old man who died after having been beaten while living in a St. Charles nursing home. Marshall Rhodes, ...

Globalization is about people, not exports. That was one comment that followed an Economic Policy Lecture held March 29 at Lindenwood University. Dr. Jo Kwong, director of institute relations at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Fairfax, Va., was the ...