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Julie Donelon, executive director of the Child Protection Center, was given the Crystal Kipper & Ali Kemp Memorial Award on Thursday, the U.S. Attorney’s office announced. The award, presented by the office each year during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, ...

Altria Group Inc.’s Philip Morris USA prompted skepticism from several U.S. Supreme Court justices over its bid to shift a smoker lawsuit into federal court, where corporate defendants often fare better. Smokers Lisa Watson and Loretta Lawson of Arkansas accuse ...

Anheuser-Busch Cos., the world’s second-largest brewer, said it won a trademark dispute against its Czech rival in Hungary that will clear the way toward getting its 23rd Bud or Budweiser trademark in Europe. The Hungarian Supreme Court this week struck ...

A 42-year-old Iowa machinist was arrested Wednesday by federal agents led by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in Dubuque in connection with mailing two partially disconnected pipe bombs from a Chicago suburb to investment firms in Kansas City and Denver, ...

A group of publishers that compile public information such as government records, judicial opinions and real estate data has weighed in on the dispute between a St. Louis-based fantasy baseball provider and Major League Baseball players over whether selling names ...

When Erin Borosh went to school Tuesday morning, a career in law was one of several options for the junior at Gateway Institute of Technology, primarily “because I like arguing with people.” After a day of meeting with corporate attorneys ...

Lawyers on both sides of the Valley Park illegal immigration debacle met Wednesday to set a trial date for the matter’s second round of litigation. St. Louis County Associate Circuit Judge Barbara Ann Crancer approved a Sept. 13 trial date ...

When Erin Borosh went to school Tuesday morning, a career in law was one of several options for the junior at Gateway Institute of Technology, primarily “because I like arguing with people.” After a day of meeting with corporate attorneys ...

Move comes before permanent replacement is found

At a late-session hearing Wednesday, the Missouri House considered a triangle of proposed constitutional revisions that would significantly revamp the way judges are selected in the state. One proposal, by Rep. Jim Lembke, R-St. Louis, would repeal the nonpartisan court ...

Judges at the Kansas City Municipal Court are optimistic that the new faces on the City Council will provide a little relief. With a new mayor in Mark Funkhouser and nine of the dozen council spots changing on Tuesday, the ...