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Kenneth Baumruk has received what he wanted, a recommendation from the jury for the death penalty. The recommendation was announced Tuesday afternoon in St. Charles Circuit Court. Judge Lucy D. Rauch will take the jury’s recommendation into consideration when she ...

An 8th Circuit panel including former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will hear a challenge to Missouri’s voting law Monday morning. In Missouri Protection and Advocacy Services et al. v. Robin Carnahan, the association will ask the 8th ...

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., center, Judge Karen Nelson Moore, of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, left, and Judge Catherine D. Perry, of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, congratulate law students ...

The Missouri Supreme Court has selected St. Louis attorney Alan D. Pratzel to serve as the state’s chief disciplinary counsel, the court said in a news release Wednesday. Pratzel is expected to begin working in his new position April 2 ...

Charge brought against man for robbery, shooting A Kansas City man faces charges that robbed several people at gunpoint. Adrian L. Beverly, 23, was charged with attempted first-degree robbery, first-degree assault and two counts of armed criminal action stemming from ...

New Jersey Attorney General Stuart Rabner’s office sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for allegedly failing to act on a state petition to block expansion of a coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania. Rabner said Tuesday the state Department of Environmental ...

Jefferson City legislators are taking another crack at legally protecting journalists from having to testify about information or confidential sources should they be subpoenaed in court cases. A House bill filed Wednesday joins a Senate measure that is pending in ...

The question of whether journalists should be required to testify about the sources of their reporting has been high profile in recent months. Among the current cases: * The Libby trial. New York Times reporter Judith Miller went to jail ...

SThe Missouri Supreme Court has selected St. Louis attorney Alan D. Pratzel to serve as the state’s chief disciplinary counsel, the court said in a news release Wednesday. Pratzel is expected to begin working in his new position April 2 ...

University of Missouri-Kansas City law professor Kris Kobach defends the constitutionality of a proposed immigration bill. Kobach said only one provision of the bill had not been addressed and upheld by federal courts. Photo by Scott Lauck/Missouri Lawyers Media An ...

In a tense preliminary hearing Tuesday morning in Union, a Franklin County judge refused to issue a gag order on the New York Post reporter who interviewed Michael Devlin last month at Franklin County jail. Associate Circuit Judge David Tobben ...