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Solutia Inc., the Town & Country-based specialty chemical manufacturer, said Wednesday it is “planning to offer” $400 million in senior unsecured notes the bankruptcy judge authorized in November. The announcement lays the groundwork for approval the specialty chemical manufacturer received ...

Dartmouth College, seeking dismissal of a lawsuit by alumni over changes to the school’s governance, told a New Hampshire judge that graduates have no contractual right to elect members of the board of trustees. A lawyer for the school told ...

An appellate panel, agreeing that one of the nation’s largest insurance companies acted with malice, affirmed this week an $8 million punitive damage verdict from the Jackson County Circuit Court. In the unanimous decision handed down Tuesday, the Missouri Court ...

State Rep. John Bowman, D-St. Louis, must resign from the Missouri House as part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors over his involvement in a credit card fraud scheme. The lawmaker appeared before U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey ...

A federal judge barred a southeastern Missouri school district from allowing Bibles to be distributed to elementary students. The purpose of allowing the Bible distribution is to promote Christianity and had the effect of a government endorsement of religion, U.S. ...

Lightning Mitchell had a dream of one day creating a leading professional women’s basketball league. And in the early 1990s, he followed through on that wish by founding the Women’s Basketball Association, a league that grew to consist of teams ...

U.S. Supreme Court justices suggested they will uphold Indiana’s Republican-sponsored voter identification law while leaving open the possibility that the state might have to loosen some of its rules. During arguments Wednesday in Washington, Justice Anthony Kennedy, often the court’s ...

The University of Illinois was sued by the artist who designed a logo for the university’s athletic activities that is no longer used. Jack Davis, who designed the university’s Chief Illiniwek logo in 1980, has “strong allegiance to the university ...

Officers were reassigned to night shift because of their gender

Jackson County jury set the amount in a mortgage case

U.S. Supreme Court justices suggested they will uphold Indiana’s Republican-sponsored voter identification law while leaving open the possibility that the state might have to loosen some of its rules. During arguments Wednesday in Washington, Justice Anthony Kennedy, often the court’s ...