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Former U.S. Sen. Howell Heflin of Alabama has been selected to receive the John Marshall Award, a national honor created by the American Bar Association Justice Center to recognize individuals responsible for extraordinary improvement in the administration of justice. Heflin ...

More County Information Made Available Online Jackson County Executive Katheryn Shields announced that records of food service inspections and plats of land within the county will be available online. These new online services are part of the county’s electronic government ...

Index Shows Growth in Missouri’s Economy Missouri’s Purchasing Manager’s Index, a key economic indicator, climbed to its highest level in nearly a year. June’s score of 58.7 was the highest since July 2002 and also marked the 17th consecutive month ...

Carolyn Gerdes of Springfield has been appointed to the Missouri Art Council board for a five-year term. Governor Bob Holden selected Gerdes, who has served for 13 years as a member of Springfield’s city council and is a supporter of ...

Funding Made Available for Art Programs Commemorating Lewis and Clark In recognition of the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery, the Missouri Arts Council will establish $30,000 in grant money to those organizations that wish to ...

13 organizations in the Kansas City area have been recognized by Children’s Trust Fund, Missouri’s foundation for child abuse prevention. These agencies will receive over $312,000 to help fund programs established to support children and their families and deter abuse ...

The state may search the bodily fluids, through blood and urine tests, of individuals suspected of driving while intoxicated if a court issues a search warrant, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, said Tuesday, even though the refusal provision ...

The proposed combination of two prominent St. Louis law firms has been called off. Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale P.C. and Rosenblum, Goldenhersh, Silverstein & Zafft P.C. have discontinued their discussions about the combination of their firms. The previously announced combination ...

Winners of The Kansas City Business Journal’s ‘Women Who Mean Business’ award, including Daily Record columnists Denise Henning and Constance Ward, gathered at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center on Friday.

An illegible postmark date on an envelope to the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission containing an appeal for workers’ compensation benefits requires an evidentiary hearing to determine when the envelope was placed in the mail, ruled the Missouri Court of ...

A special panel discussion addressing diversity within the legal profession, sponsored by the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, was held on July 23, 2003. Sylvester “Sly” James, Jr., KCMBA president, and Taylor Fields served as moderators for the discussion, which ...