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Lawyers Mindy White and Colin Stoner are owners of women’s football team The Kansas City Tribe. The team recently settled a lawsuit with the Independent Women’s Football League that allows it to exit the league without paying a fine.

Peter Sterling, general counsel for the Missouri Public Defender System, testifies during an August hearing in Christian County Circuit Court over the rejection of client in the name of a caseload crisis.

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The Kansas City Council interviews municipal judge candidates Bryan Round, Anne LaBella and Ronald Jurgeson on April 22. A similar round of interviews in 2006 led to a lawsuit from a rejected candidate. In this case, LaBella became the first judge chosen for the Kansas City Municipal Court in two years.

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When Steve Ohmer takes over as presiding judge of the St. Louis Circuit Court in January, he’ll have something his predecessors didn’t have — the power to hire and fire the circuit clerk’s employees.

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James J. Gallagher, who retired from the St. Louis Circuit Court in 1998, died Dec. 25. He was 82.

President Barack Obama granted a recess appointment to James Cole, a Bryan Cave partner who was nominated to become deputy attorney general.

Missouri’s system for selecting judges was challenged and tweaked in 2010, and next year will likely mean another workout for the Nonpartisan Court Plan.

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THF -S High Ridge Development won approval of a retail and office development at the southeast quadrant of High Ridge Commons Parkway and Ridge Point Drive, east of Hwy. 30. The development plan shows a 152,492-square-foot commercial structure where a Walmart Supercenter would be located.

Once again, the Festus Memorial Airport sale has stalled. The closing was scheduled for Dec. 23 but hit yet another snag — lack of money.

A Jefferson County woman missing since Dec. 20 has been found dead inside a car parked at St. John’s Urgent Care across from the Arnold 14 Cinema off Richardson Road.

Polsinelli Shughart Chairman Russell Welsh speaks at a press conference on Dec. 21 to announce the third and, he said, final design for his firm's Plaza headquarters.

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