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Second defendant pleads in crack conspiracy A Kansas City man pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to participating in a conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. Artie J. Tatum, 33, of Kansas City, admitted he participated in a conspiracy to distribute ...

The Missouri Bar and mainstream bar associations in the St. Louis area need to take a proactive approach to diversifying the leadership ranks of their organizations, according to a Mound City Bar Association report. In addition to the statewide bar, ...

Jackson County Prosecutor Jim Kanatzar, top left, introduces a drug court graduation as Commissioner Brian C. Wimes prepares materials Tuesday. This was the 73rd drug court graduation, and the program has graduated 1,282 clients, including this year

Chris Sztorch, president of the Greater Kansas City Chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators, has seen the amount of paperwork in area law firms increase significantly over the years. She said the trend might swing the other way as ...

Former Westar Energy executives David Wittig and Douglas Lake won’t face a government attempt to reinstate fraud convictions reversed on appeal, prosecutors said. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Topeka said it wouldn’t ask a Denver appeals court to reconsider January’s ...

Businessman sentenced to five years in Medicare fraud The owner of a medical-supply business was sentenced to five years and three months in federal prison without parole for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare of millions of dollars ...

Saint Louis University is clearly guided by the ideals and principles of the Society of Jesus that has been affiliated with it since 1829. But is it controlled by that creed? That’s another question. Actually, it was essentially the only ...

Patrick J. Connaghan, clerk of the St. Louis Board of Alderman, is going to court. On Tuesday, the St. Louis Circuit Court voted that Connaghan be named clerk and commissioner of the probate court. Connaghan was on a panel with ...

Lauren Donovan has joined ARCO Construction Co. as a project manager. Her responsibilities include estimating, staffing and managing projects for ARCO’s design/build, industrial and commercial clients. Donovan earned a bachelor’s degree in structural engineering from Stanford University. She is a ...

Alan C. Richter has been named executive director of the new Regional Union Construction Center (RUCC) incubator. The incubator was recently established by PRIDE of St. Louis Inc., the area’s venerable construction labor-management organization, to help minority owners of union ...

Saint Louis University is clearly guided by the ideals and principles of the Society of Jesus that has been affiliated with it since 1829. But is it controlled by that creed? That’s another question. Actually, it was essentially the only ...