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Energizer Holdings has appointed Mark LaVigne as its new general counsel.

Individuals participating in the Occupy St. Louis plan to ask the Slay administration to condemn the violence that occurred between police and protesters in Oakland, Calif., last week.

Thirty-seven people want to be a circuit judge in St. Louis County.

Ronald Frank Harris, a former administrative law judge in Jefferson City, died of cancer on Nov. 2. He was 58.

A federal judge blocked new rules for graphic health warnings on cigarette packaging from taking effect, saying the required text and images may violate tobacco companies’ free speech rights.

It has been almost six years since the air started to leak, then gush, out of the U.S. housing market, and the best one can say is that residential real estate is bouncing along the bottom.

A former judge in the city of St. Louis will be among those deciding who should have a shot at the bench.

Robert C. Jones Jr., city attorney for the St. Louis suburb of Sunset Hills for more than 54 years, died at his Crestwood home Saturday following a battle with liver cancer. He was 78.

St. Louis Circuit Judge Dennis Schaumann was bound to make history last week. The judge was faced with the first-in-the-nation Frye v. United States challenge to forensic evidence retrieved from a ShotSpotter gunshot location system.

H&R Block’s Kansas City headquarters sits just a few blocks south of a federal courthouse, yet last week’s decision barring a major proposed merger was made by a judge in Washington, D.C.

Sprint Nextel Corp. can sue AT&T Inc. over its proposed purchase of T-Mobile USA Inc., a federal judge ruled, saying the fact that the companies are competitors doesn’t bar a private antitrust lawsuit.