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Jackson County Circuit Judge Brian Wimes, appointed to the bench last week, brings 12 years of experience as drug court commissioner and a Jackson County prosecutor to his new position in Division 18. Photo by Peter Crawford/The Daily Record Brian ...

Outgoing Jackson County Drug Court Commissioner Brian Wimes will continue to handle the drug court docket until his replacement is picked. Wimes, who was appointed to the circuit bench last week, had held the drug court commissioner position the past ...

Several current and former service technicians and other maintenance staff are suing three apartment management companies for not paying overtime or giving compensatory time. Twenty-six employees filed the suit against Apartment Investment and Management Co., AIMCO Properties and NHP Management. ...

Two black teenagers shopping at Famous Footwear in Independence last year say the store accused them of stealing shoes, and police arrested them based on their race. Cousins David Block and Jeron Jackson, both of Grandview, are suing Brown Shoe ...

Five illegal roofing workers indicted after deportations A federal grand jury indicted five Mexican nationals Wednesday in separate but related cases of illegally re-entering the United States after having been deported. Most of the defendants are thought to have worked ...

Missouri’s campaign contribution limits are being reinstated under a unanimous decision handed down Thursday by the state Supreme Court. According to the high court, lawmakers linked two important provisions of a 2006 campaign finance law – one that allowed unlimited ...

St. Louis Police Chief Joe Mokwa and two of his supervising officers are entitled to qualified immunity in an employment discrimination lawsuit filed by three female police officers who were assigned to the night shift. But the lawsuit will still ...

St. Louis native on bench 18 years

Missouri Court of Appeals Judge Robert Ulrich won’t admit whether finding his lost law school application on a beach in Corsica was fate. He was in the U.S. Marines doing an exercise with the French Foreign Legion, and when they ...

Russian appellate judges will study the federal and state court systems in Missouri and Kansas next week during the day and experience the cultural offerings at night. The five judges of the 11th Arbitration Appeals Court in Samara, a city ...