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Kansas City’s next U.S. attorney should take her oath of office by next week, while St. Louis’ incoming U.S. attorney has to wrap up his judge duties in Mid-Missouri before making the move. The U.S. Senate found time before adjourning ...

Tagged with: Beth Phillips Kansas City U.S. Attorney Richard Callahan St. Louis U.S. Attorney

Confronted with declining tax revenues, St. Charles County officials have appropriated less money for economic development next year than they originally planned. The County Council last week approved a 2010 budget that provides less money to the Economic Development Center ...

Tagged with: Economic Development Center of St. Charles County

Entertainment venues looking to make one last revenue rally are offering guests a chance to bring in the New Year by shaking their groove thing instead of watching other people do so in Times Square with Ryan Seacrest. And local ...

Shockwaves ran through the criminal justice system last February when Cole County Circuit Judge Richard B. Callahan exonerated a man who served nearly 15 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit.

Tagged with: Angela Mischelle Lawless Joshua Kezer Kenny Hulshof Richard Callahan writ for habeas corpus

Judge Mark Pfeiffer heard his first case for the Court of Appeals Western District from an unusual place - the audience. Pfeiffer, who was appointed to the court on May 6, watched a court en banc argument later that month over the conviction of a man on a child molestation charge. He was in town for the court's conference that afternoon and intended merely to be a spectator. But when the court's existing eight judges split evenly over the outcome, Pfeiffer (with the attorneys' permission) was added as a ninth judge. As he said he learned, "there are no ties at the Court of Appeals."

Tagged with: Ann Mesle Cindy Reams Martin Gary D. Witt Hal Lowenstein John Miller Joseph Dandurand Karen King Mitchell Mark Pfeiffer Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Paul Spinden Ron Holliger

A persistent lawsuit against a cigarette maker that was thought to have ended this year after facing two juries and a lengthy appeals process could cough up another run at the Missouri court system.

Tagged with: Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. cigarettes Ken McClain Kool cigarettes R.J. Reynolds

While lawmakers spent part of the year deliberating pertinent issues, focus shifted in the offseason to legislators' ethical conduct. Two state representatives and one state senator from the St. Louis area resigned in 2009. And a former speaker of the house made news in December when he exiled himself from politics after being charged with felony assault on a woman.

Tagged with: ethics Jeff Smith Rod Jetton Steve Brown T.D. El-Amin

The indictments of three former St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officers in December 2008 raised a host of legal questions and further litigation. The officers’ indictments caused both the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri and the ...

Tagged with: Bobby Lee Garrett Catherine Hanaway Chet Pleban Jennifer Joyce Leo Liston prosecutorial misconduct St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department U.S. Attorney's Office Vincent Carr

Thai native Khamphee Kells and her family are having very happy holidays now that the U.S. government agreed to issue them green cards. Kells' and her two daughters' legal statuses were in limbo after Kells' husband died in a car accident before their petition with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services was processed

Tagged with: Armstrong Teasdale immigration Judge Charles Shaw Khamphee Kells Robert Kells U.S. District Court of Eastern Missouri widow penalty

The federal appeals court in San Francisco approved on an experimental basis the limited use of cameras in district courts in nine western U.S. states. The judicial council of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted unanimously to allow ...

Tagged with: 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cameras in the courtroom

The Northeast Ambulance and Fire Protection District board president will have an evidentiary hearing at 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 8 to determine whether he should be removed from office. A petition filed by St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch ...

Tagged with: Bernard Edwards Elbert Walton Northeast Ambulance and Fire Protection District Robert Edwards Robert McCulloch