Gov. Jay Nixon announced Tuesday the appointment of Robert M. Heggie as associate circuit judge for the St. Louis County Circuit Court.
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Read More »Gov. Jay Nixon announced Tuesday the appointment of Robert M. Heggie as associate circuit judge for the St. Louis County Circuit Court.
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Read More »The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District on Tuesday affirmed a $2.2 million verdict for a former auto parts store manager who alleged he was demoted because of his muscular dystrophy.
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Read More »The embattled chairman of the Missouri Republican Party gained some support Monday as police said they have no evidence of an anti-Semitic whispering campaign against a state auditor who killed himself.
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Read More »Missouri lawmakers have tried and failed for more than a decade to join the rest of the country in creating a prescription drug monitoring program. All the while, state Rep. Holly Rehder watched her daughter's addiction to painkillers deepen.
Read More »The Supreme Court is adding a new case to decide whether its 3-year-old ruling throwing out mandatory life in prison without parole for juveniles should apply to older cases.
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Read More »A former acting police chief claims he lost his job after reporting that the mayor of the St. Louis County suburb of Vinita Park tried to change police reports and had the prosecuting attorney dismiss a charge. (Updated)
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Read More »The Supreme Court on Monday seemed skeptical that the nation's disabilities law requires police to take special precautions when arresting armed and violent suspects who are mentally ill.
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Read More »In a dispute over a proposed Confederate battle flag license plate, the Supreme Court struggled Monday to balance worries about government censorship and concerns that offensive messages could, at worst, incite violence.
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Read More »A Republican lawmaker wants to tweak Missouri's gun laws to keep firearms out of the hands of certain felons following a St. Louis judge's ruling that jeopardizes the state's current ban on convicted felons possessing guns.
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Read More »After a federal judge disqualified his attorney, she granted a Hayti man’s request to dismiss his civil rights lawsuit against the Bootheel town, its nonlawyer municipal judge and former court clerk.
Read More »Three associate judges — Christopher McGraugh, Calea Stovall-Reid and Thomas Clark II —are the finalists for an open St. Louis circuit judgeship.
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