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Judicial applicants are getting younger as a whole, but the commission who interviews them still sees quality in them. Of those who recently sought Jackson County’s vacant circuit judgeship, a notable number of those were fairly young, according to those ...

Selecting a jury is one of the most important decisions an attorney will make during a trial. The jury decides guilt, who pays how much and in some states who dies. “If you pick a good jury, you can win ...

The St. Louis Building Department has denied a sign permit for this two-story mural painted on the side of a building on South 13th Street. The mural, which has become a local landmark visible to traffic on Interstate 44 and ...

Gov. Matt Blunt said Wednesday that he might call a special legislative session to address the state’s Second Injury Fund after receiving a request this week from Attorney General Jay Nixon. In a letter to Nixon’s office on Wednesday, Blunt ...

An industrial company owned by Harbour Group, a privately held investment firm based in Clayton, is being sued for sexual harassment. A female employee still working for Lincoln Industrial Corp. has sued the North County lubricant manufacturing company for damages ...

“Political subdivisions” is a broad term encompassing everything from school boards to cities of millions of people. But it’s not too vague to be the title of a state law, the Missouri Supreme Court said Tuesday. The state Legislature in ...

Kansas City osteopath William T. Brown was incorrectly identified in the second paragraph of a Wednesday story about his lawsuit against Harrah’s North Kansas City casino. The story ran on page 3.

Program ‘lawful, effective,’ Bush spokesman says

Reggie Walton, the federal judge who sentenced former vice presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby to prison, learned to respect authority when his fed-up father confronted him over his teenage brushes with the law. “I was lifting weights, and I ...

Boeing hires former Reagan counsel as its senior Washington lawyer Boeing Co. hired Richard A. Hauser, former deputy counsel to President Ronald Reagan, as the planemaker’s senior attorney in Washington. Hauser, 64, most recently served as the president of the ...

Film studios accuse Web sites of violations The Motion Picture Association of America, a trade organization for Hollywood’s largest film studios, sued two Internet sites, claiming they illegally post copyrighted material. The complaints were filed Tuesday in the U.S. District ...