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Pennsylvania needs new regulations to better protect borrowers, requiring mortgage dealers to clearly explain adjustable interest rates and other features of the loans they make, a state banking official said. The state’s banking department is supporting a package of six ...

Lake Shore Asset Management Ltd., the Chicago hedge fund firm accused by U.S. regulators of lying to investors about its track record, can’t engage in any commodity futures or options trading, a judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Blanche Manning in ...

The producer of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the self-proclaimed “Greatest Show on Earth,” sued the ASPCA and other animal rights groups, claiming they paid a former company employee to help them fight alleged abuses by the circus ...

Critics of Missouri’s nonpartisan court plan have had plenty of pointed things to say about the process but have been relatively vague about their problems with the qualifications of the nominees — until now. A study posted Monday on the ...

The Appellate Judicial Commission announced Tuesday its three nominees to fill a vacancy on the Missouri Court of Appeals’ Western District. The panel consists of two attorneys — Alok Ahuja of Lathrop & Gage and Cynthia L. Reams Martin, a ...

Roxana Contreras, a student of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, visits Alcatraz Island. She is now in Russia, where she has been charged with attempting to smuggle medals and coins out of the country. Photo courtesy of Sonya Bahar Location. ...

For the second time in less than one week, the director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services accused the state’s attorney general of having a conflict of interest. In a letter to Jay Nixon, Jane Drummond wrote ...

The federal appeals court in St. Louis tossed out the house-arrest sentence of former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Vice Chairman Thomas Coughlin on Tuesday, calling it too lenient and creating the possibility he’ll go to prison for stealing from the company. ...

Blunt orders state police to check for illegal immigrants State police will begin checking whether people they arrest are illegal immigrants, under a directive Gov. Matt Blunt announced this week. Officers of the Highway Patrol, Water Patrol and Capitol Police ...

Critics of Missouri’s nonpartisan court plan have had plenty of pointed things to say about the process but have been relatively vague about their problems with the qualifications of the nominees — until now. A study posted Monday on the ...

For the second time in less than one week, the director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services accused the state’s attorney general of having a conflict of interest. In a letter to Jay Nixon, Jane Drummond wrote ...