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A municipal jail official says a $75,000 grant will help provide referral services for female inmates and reduce the 70 percent recidivism rate. Nancy Leazer, superintendent of the Municipal Correctional Institution, said the Health Care Foundation grant awarded last week ...

Saundra McFadden-Weaver couldn’t acquire a loan to rehab her Kansas City house, so she turned to mortgage fraud to get the money to repair her home, a U.S. attorney alleged Monday. McFadden-Weaver, 47, a former Kansas City council member, couldn’t ...

The No. 2 Republican in the state Senate wants Missouri’s attorney general to investigate the closed-meeting practices of the commission picking the next state Supreme Court judge. Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, sent a letter to Attorney General Jay Nixon ...

Police suspect that a man who represented immigrants through Legal Services of Eastern Missouri was shot and killed Saturday in an attempted robbery. Dan Horkheimer, 29, was working in front of his north St. Louis home when he was shot ...

Police suspect that a man who represented immigrants through Legal Services of Eastern Missouri was shot and killed Saturday in an attempted robbery. Dan Horkheimer, 29, was working in front of his north St. Louis home when he was shot ...

The No. 2 Republican in the state Senate wants Missouri’s attorney general to investigate the closed-meeting practices of the commission picking the next state Supreme Court judge. Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, sent a letter to Attorney General Jay Nixon ...

$75,000 to cover social worker’s salary, counseling for women

Three former attorneys at Bryan Cave have opened a St. Louis office for Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart PC. Gregg M. Lemley and Tim A. Garnett opened the office as shareholders of Ogletree Deakins, based in Atlanta and Greenville, ...

Caterpillar Inc., the world’s largest maker of earth-moving equipment, must face a trial over three female employees’ accusations of sexual harassment and the retaliation claim of a fourth, a judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer in Chicago refused to ...

Mattel Inc., the world’s largest toymaker, has been sued for violating U.S. consumer-protection laws after recalling Chinese-made Sesame Street and Dora the Explorer toys because they may be made with paint containing lead. The suit, filed in Manhattan federal court ...

Betonsports Plc. founder Gary S. Kaplan, who’s charged with racketeering and illegal interstate gambling, asked a federal judge on Monday to dismiss his indictment. Kaplan’s lawyer called the government’s racketeering theory “flawed,’’ in papers filed with U.S. District Judge Carol ...