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

Crystal City High School student Logan Grove, 15, asks a question of judges Wednesday morning during Law Day at the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse, in St. Louis.

A truck driver who lost his commercial driver’s license following a drunken driving arrest is trying to win it back through an unusual route — last year’s federal health care law ruling.

It’s not clear that the court will go that far. During Tuesday’s arguments, the judges instead focused on the various ways the fund can meet its obligations with its existing funding.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has the right to intervene in a Missouri workers’ compensation case, even though state law doesn’t provide such a procedure.

Attorneys filing motions in the St. Louis Circuit Court can now schedule hearings from the convenience of their own law offices.

The Missouri Supreme Court has restored the law license of a Kansas City lawyer who had been accused of killing his law partner.

A Jefferson City attorney has been indicted for his role in a conspiracy to commit marriage fraud to evade immigration laws, according to an announcement from Tammy Dickinson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri.

A hearing over Patriot Coal’s proposal to change agreements with unions started Monday with a dispute over whether the changes would affect how much Peabody would have to pay for medical benefits for 3,100 retirees and their dependents.

A federal appeals court upheld the 30-month prison sentence of Jimmy Tebeau, the former owner of a southern Missouri concert site where drug use allegedly was rampant.

A Jackson County circuit judge threw out a man’s lawsuit after more than five years of litigation, ruling that the plaintiff and his attorneys committed “a fraud on the Court” by concealing documents from the defense.

Ronda F. Williams, senior corporate counsel at Savvis Inc. and leader in several bar associations, has died. Updated with information about a location change for the funeral service.