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Robert Kenney gets fitted with a red bowtie by his assistant Diana Doelling to match his Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus colleagues, who all wore theirs in his honor. Kenney showed up at his going away party sans bowtie, his usual ...

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Freddie Mac continues to pursue legal action to evict tenants living in foreclosed properties, drawing fire from legal aid groups who say the moves violate the spirit of a moratorium the company agreed to in November. While Freddie and Fannie ...

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In an effort to spur the local economy and create jobs, St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann is proposing a “local stimulus package” aimed at spending $130 million of taxpayer money already allocated to cities for road improvement projects. But ...

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Peggy Stevens McGraw, former presiding judge of the 16th Circuit, knows the nature of work that will occupy Stephen Nixon, her successor. “I sign a lot of things,” McGraw said, making light of the position’s administrative emphasis. Nixon assumed McGraw’s ...

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Attorney General-designate Eric Holder called waterboarding a form of illegal torture and promised to restore the credibility of a Justice Department he described as "badly shaken" by "improper political interference." At Senate confirmation hearings, Holder signaled that President-elect Barack Obama will suspend military tribunals used to try suspected war criminals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The tribunals must be "substantially revamped" to provide defendants with more due process and ensure fair treatment for suspects, he said.

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A six-week strike by nurses at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur ended in 2005, but the nurses just learned they won’t have to pay back the unemployment benefits they received during the strike. The Missouri Supreme Court ...

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Twenty-five years after they were mothballed, four floors of the Jackson County Courthouse might again house inmates, if only temporarily. Jackson County and Kansas City officials said Wednesday that they plan to consolidate their detention facilities. Moving city inmates into county facilities would save an estimated $1 million per year, officials said.

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Kansas City's former U.S. attorney, Bradley Schlozman, took into account political affiliation and ideology when hiring career lawyers as acting head of the agency's Civil Rights Division, an internal investigation reported.

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The 16th of October started as just another ordinary day for the employees at 190 Carondelet in Clayton. They got up, ate breakfast and went to work like normal, going about their typical workday. But then it all changed. At approximately 11 a.m., a bomb detonated in the parking garage of the building, that housed several law firms. The explosion rocked the building and all employees had to be evacuated. In their hurry many left their purses, cell phones and keys behind.

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