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

Gov. Matt Blunt on Wednesday nominated Rod Chapel, currently the head of the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, to a six- year term on the quasi-judicial Administrative Hearing Commission. “Rod has demonstrated his commitment to public service and ...

Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin seek recordings in lawsuit The Grateful Dead, the Doors, Led Zeppelin and Carlos Santana asked a judge to force a music archive to turn over thousands of documents and recordings they say are key to a ...

Bryan Pratt, an attorney at Shook Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City and a Republican state representative from Blue Springs, has been elected speaker pro tem of the Missouri House. The position puts Pratt, 34, into the second highest ranking ...

Gov. Matt Blunt on Wednesday nominated Rod Chapel, currently the head of the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, to a six-year term on the quasi-judicial Administrative Hearing Commission. “Rod has demonstrated his commitment to public service and has ...

A Kansas City Council committee pushed the city’s municipal court one step closer to filling several judicial vacancies. The Finance and Audit Committee on Monday unanimously backed the repeal of an ordinance that requires background checks for anybody who seeks ...

Drugmaker concerned more about profits, lawsuit claims

The U.S. Senate has adopted a measure that would grant nonprofit housing organizations $100 million to curb foreclosures linked to subprime lending. The measure, included in a bill funding the departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, would shore ...

Lord Bissell & Brook and Locke Liddell & Sapp have approved a merger to create a 700-lawyer firm with gross revenue of some $400 million. The merger takes effect Oct. 2, Chicago-based Lord Bissell and Dallas-based Locke Liddell said in ...

Rock archive countersues bands in Calif. case

Billionaire oilman Oscar Wyatt Jr. sought to be the only recipient of Iraqi oil under a humanitarian aid program that the Texan backed, a key prosecution witness in his bribery trial testified. Wyatt, 83, is accused of paying millions of ...

Chief Justice Laura Denvir Stith testified Tuesday before the Senate Rules Committee in Jefferson City. Photo by Don Shrubshell Chief Justice Laura Denvir Stith found broad support Tuesday from the Senate committee that called her to testify in Jefferson City ...