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Lincoln Electric jury awards $20.5 million in lawsuit Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc., the world’s largest welding equipment maker, and competing welding- rod makers must pay $20.5 million for a worker’s illness he claimed was caused by manganese fumes produced during ...

The state Supreme Court considered on Wednesday whether an inmate serving a life sentence can sue his attorney. The judges expressed a strong reluctance to rule as the trial court did, that the inmate’s legal malpractice suit against attorney Jasper ...

One month into his job, Michael Mukasey visits St. Louis

A leader of the Gateway to a Cure charity will pay a fine and be permanently barred from working in fundraising or running a nonprofit group in Missouri under a court order filed Wednesday. Mary Bolling, a former director of ...

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that in a fight between efficiency and confidentiality, confidentiality wins. In a 5-2 decision, the court made absolute a writ of prohibition preventing Jackson County Circuit Judge Michael Manners from allowing the plaintiffs ...

A leader of the Gateway to a Cure charity will pay a fine and be permanently barred from working in fundraising or running a nonprofit group in Missouri under a court order filed Wednesday. Mary Bolling, a former director of ...

A.G. Edwards Inc., the St. Louis-based brokerage acquired by Wachovia Corp., should be sanctioned for failing to thwart an employee’s aggressive pursuit of retirees who later lost part of their savings, a Massachusetts regulator says. The firm should be censured, ...

A Fenton computer service company has sued a unit of Sun Microsystems Inc. seeking enforcement of a settlement agreement and unspecified damages. Custom Hardware Engineering & Consulting Inc., a business partner of Sun Micro’s Storage Technology unit, contends it settled ...

Attendees of the Project Safe Childhood conference listen to Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s keynote address in St. Louis on Wednesday. The national meeting, held downtown at the Renaissance St. Louis Grand & Suites Hotel, wraps up today. Photo by Karen ...

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that in a fight between efficiency and confidentiality, confidentiality wins. In a 5-2 decision, the court made absolute a writ of prohibition preventing Jackson County Circuit Judge Michael Manners from allowing the plaintiffs ...

A man who has asserted his right to a speedy trial for more than a year could get the chance to walk free, after tough questions by state Supreme Court judges Tuesday about delays in the case. Tracy McKee was ...