With the Senate confirming two more appointees to the University of Missouri Board of Curators on Thursday, at least seven of the nine board members will be attorneys.
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Read More »With the Senate confirming two more appointees to the University of Missouri Board of Curators on Thursday, at least seven of the nine board members will be attorneys.
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Read More »The Missouri Supreme Court issued an execution order Friday for 74-year-old Cecil L. Clayton, who is scheduled to be put to death at 6 p.m. March 17.
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Read More »Crystal City Underground remains open for business but as a far more modest venture because some investors have been deterred by a long-simmering legal dispute with county officials who once embraced the plan.
Read More »A pair of decisions by the Missouri Supreme Court this week helped define the rights of parties involved in family law matters.
Read More »State senators on Wednesday gave initial approval to strengthening ethics laws in Missouri, the only state with the trio of unlimited campaign contributions, no limits on gifts from lobbyists and no restrictions against state lawmakers going into lobbying as soon as they leave public office.
Read More »S&P’s settlement with the U.S. government, 19 states and the District of Columbia marks a public chastening of a major credit rating agency accused of knowingly overrating toxic mortgages that ignited the crisis. Yet the fundamental conflict of interest at the heart of the rating agencies’ business remains intact: They continue to be paid by the companies whose securities they rate.
Read More »Nearly five years after President Barack Obama signed his health care overhaul into law, its fate is yet again in the hands of the Supreme Court.
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Read More »Declaring that the Internet must not be taken over by big business interests, a top U.S. regulator on Wednesday proposed dramatically expanding the government’s power to oversee Internet service providers and establishing new rules that would prohibit companies from blocking or slowing data.
Read More »The Missouri House voted Tuesday to revive proposed limits on jobless benefits in an effort to encourage people to search for work, a measure that fell one vote short of overriding Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon's veto last year when Republicans had a smaller majority.
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Read More »A key committee chairman expressed confidence Monday that Missouri legislators will finally vote to strengthen the state’s ethics laws this session.
Read More »A federal appeals court will consider the gay marriage bans of South Dakota, Arkansas and Missouri in a sped-up process that positions itself to weigh in before an expected U.S. Supreme Court ruling that could settle whether same-sex couples can marry nationwide.
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