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Accused again of murder in courthouse shooting

Kenneth Baumruk, left, talks with one of his then-public defenders, Teoffice Cooper, before Baumruk’s mental competency hearing in June 2005 at the St. Charles County Courthouse. The Missouri Supreme Court threw out Baumruk’s conviction for shooting his wife and four ...

Senior Judge Charles Blackmar sits in for Supreme Court Judge William R. Price Jr. to hear arguments Nov. 1 in Seeck v. Geico. Blackmar died Friday at age 84. Photo by Scott Lauck/Missouri Lawyers Media Former Missouri Supreme Court Chief ...

In a nod to Attorney General Jay Nixon’s request for the state Supreme Court to consider Missouri’s process for changing child-support payments, the high court granted a woman’s writ of prohibition Friday. Sherrie Hansen, an attorney in Seneca, had been ...

Though he is accused of committing 13 murders, Lorenzo Gilyard will no longer face the death penalty. In his first major decision since being sworn into office Thursday, Jackson County Prosecutor Jim Kanatzar announced Monday that Gilyard had agreed to ...

Police officers stand watch over the U.S. Supreme Court as Brother George Lawrence Kraus, of the Buffalo Regional Right to Life Committee in Elma, N.Y., participates in a rally to mark the 34th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision ...

Property owners who lost a contentious eminent domain case to Centene Corp. and Clayton on Friday plan to quickly appeal the court’s decision to condemn their land. The owners expressed outrage Monday, likening the court’s decision to a judge allowing ...

A New Jersey judge ordered Merck & Co. to remove from its Web site a press release about a trial this week over whether its Vioxx painkiller caused heart attacks in two men. Superior Court Judge Carol Higbee told Merck ...

A New Jersey woman who claimed Merck & Co.’s Vioxx painkiller caused her husband’s death dropped her lawsuit against the company five weeks before the case was set to got to trial in Philadelphia. Angela McCool, of Marlton, N.J., dropped ...

Pfizer, the world’s largest drug maker, was sued by an AIDS-treatment group claiming ads for the company’s Viagra impotence drug encourage recreational use, increasing the risk of getting the immune-deficiency disease. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation filed its complaint Monday in ...

Authored dissent in Cruzan right-to-die case