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

Gov. Matt Blunt is sharing the partial responses he has received from the three candidates for the Missouri Supreme Court vacancy. After receiving the list of nominees from the Appellate Judicial Commission, the governor asked each to answer 111 questions. ...

Missouri election officials cannot deny voting rights to certain disabled people who are under court-appointed guardianship, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday. The ruling likely caps a case initiated by a disability-rights group and a Kansas City ...

Planned Parenthood argued in federal court Thursday that if a temporary restraining order wasn’t granted before Tuesday, two abortion clinics in Kansas City and Columbia would be forced to close. Jennifer Sandman, representing Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, told ...

Gov. Matt Blunt has named a Washington University law school graduate the state’s first eminent domain ombudsman. As property rights czar, Paul Anthony Martin will educate private-property owners about condemnation, the governor’s office announced Thursday. Martin, 29, graduated from Washington ...

The Missouri House signed off Thursday on a scaled-back tax break bill, and the Senate is expected to take it up next week. Lawmakers convened in a special session after Gov. Matt Blunt vetoed a tax break bill passed this ...

A group opposed to a form of early stem cell research filed paperwork Wednesday to try to undo the goal of a constitutional amendment Missouri voters narrowly passed last year. The amendment just enacted provides constitutional protection for any stem ...

Attorneys in one Missouri city are still rankled about having lost a contentious employment law case two weeks ago. The City of Maryland Heights filed a motion Tuesday for a rehearing before the state Supreme Court in Daugherty v. City ...

The Missouri Supreme Court issued a sweeping reprimand Tuesday to banks that charge fees for processing mortgage-loan documents. Charging such fees is the unauthorized practice of law, the court said, siding with a slew of class-action plaintiffs who sued St. ...

Immigration law amendment passed in secret, plaintiffs allege The plaintiff in the federal case on a St. Louis suburb’s immigration ordinances has alleged the city amended one of the measures at an ad hoc evening meeting earlier this month, in ...

IHOP seeks dismissal from Applebee’s purchase suit IHOP Corp., the largest U.S. pancake- restaurant chain, asked a judge to throw out investors’ claims in a lawsuit over the company’s $1.9 billion takeover of Overland Park, Kan.-based Applebee’s International Inc. A ...

Attorneys for the city of Maryland Heights filed a motion Tuesday for a rehearing before the state Supreme Court on a contentious employment law case decided two weeks ago. The case, Daugherty v. City of Maryland Heights, changed the standard ...