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Losing his license to practice law might not be Eric Affholter’s most pressing concern right now, but the possibility looms for the former head of the state public defender’s office in St. Louis. Affholter, who was charged May 30 with ...

A House committee on Monday began a summer-long review that could result in proposals to reform or eliminate the state’s Second Injury Fund. Some of the most critical information needed to make a decision — a full-blown actuarial study of ...

A federal appeals court ruling in St. Louis upholding the constitutionality of using lethal injection to carry out a death penalty is a landmark vindication of the state’s practice of executing condemned inmates, a spokesman for the Department of Corrections ...

Pat Secrest, director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, on Monday addresses a committee that is studying the Second Injury Fund. A House committee began a reviewing the fund Monday. Photo by Scott Lauck A House committee on Monday began ...

Missouri Court of Appeals Judge Edwin Smith will retire from the bench in July after 29 years of service. He will become a partner with Shughart Thomson & Kilroy in the St. Joseph office, he announced Friday. Photo by Matt ...

Two bars that served alcohol to a woman on the night she caused a deadly crash have been ordered to pay $5 million each. Jackson County Judge Sandra Midkiff reached the decision last week based on the confessions of judgment ...

Chinese nationals indicted for prostitution Four Chinese nationals who own and operate a group of Asian massage parlors in Johnson County, Kan., were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for transporting people across state lines and national borders for ...

Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Wolff recently attended a conference in Kosovo to look at how the former part of Yugoslavia was adjusting to democracy. While there, he encountered elected officials who said the old court system had been ...

Federal and state authorities opened up last week about their processes for prosecuting businesses for false or misleading advertisements. Business owners and advertisers listened as representatives from the state attorney general’s office and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service talked about ...

Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Wolff recently attended a conference in Kosovo to look at how the former part of Yugoslavia was adjusting to democracy. While there, he encountered elected officials who said the old court system had been ...

Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Wolff spoke about his trip to Kosovo at the Missouri Bar’s Civic Education Summit on Friday. He recently attended a conference in the former part of Yugoslavia as part of a discussion on effective ...