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Lawyers for a man convicted last month of shooting his wife to death inside the St. Louis County Circuit Court have filed a motion for an acquittal or a new trial. A jury on Feb. 6 recommended that Kenneth Baumruk, ...

Eric Kendall Banks was recently awarded the Reverend Arnold and Mildred Bringewatt Social Justice Award by Lutheran Family and Children’s Services of Missouri. The Bringewatt Award honors individuals who have made a significant commitment to social justice. LFCS is a ...

Lewis “Scooter” Libby, center, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, walks back to the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday after making a statement to the media regarding the guilty verdict delivered by the jury in ...

Debra A. Kionka has joined the workers’ compensation practice group of Evans & Dixon LLC as a senior associate. Kionka is licensed to practice in Illinois. Prior to joining Evans & Dixon, she worked as a workers’ compensation attorney at ...

The lawyer for suspected serial killer Lorenzo Gilyard told a Jackson County Circuit judge Monday that it is time to move beyond suspicion and return his client to the community. Defense attorney Thomas Jacquinot outlined a case before Judge John ...

When attorney Molly Bartalos walked into a classroom filled with 3- and 4-year-olds, she immediately drew a crowd. Mainly, the kids wanted to know about her hat. “What’s that?” “Who gave you that?” “Can I have one of those?” Bartalos, ...

Former Missouri Supreme Court Judge Joseph J. Simeone met Thomas Eagleton, who died Sunday, in the mid-1950s when Eagleton was a candidate for St. Louis circuit attorney and Simeone was a law professor at Saint Louis University. “He used to ...

Business owner pleads guilty to tax evasion A Kansas City man who operated his own business pleaded guilty Monday in his attempt to avoid paying more than $100,000 in income taxes. Parnell Riley Jr., 52, admitted before federal Judge Fernando ...

Supreme Court rejects Ebbers on WorldCom conviction Former WorldCom Inc. Chief Executive Officer Bernard Ebbers lost a Supreme Court bid to overturn his conviction for leading an $11 billion fraud, the largest in the nation’s history. The justices, without comment, ...

Former Missouri Supreme Court Judge Joseph J. Simeone met Thomas Eagleton, who died Sunday, in the mid-1950s when Eagleton was a candidate for St. Louis circuit attorney and Simeone was a law professor at Saint Louis University. “He used to ...

Thousands of uninsured patients could potentially join a lawsuit against Barnes Jewish Christian HealthCare after a St. Louis judge approved class certification in the matter on Monday. The suit is going after the hospital system for allegedly overcharging uninsured patients ...