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Charges by four female pilots that Frontier Airlines’ policies for pregnant women and new mothers are discriminatory could be seen as progress, an advocate says. Decades ago, flight attendants were pushing just to keep their jobs after they became pregnant, ...

After nearly 38 years of behind-the-scenes service to the Missouri Supreme Court, Bill L. Thompson is planning to retire, the court announced Wednesday. Thompson, the court’s clerk since 2011 and previously its top in-house lawyer, plans to retire effective Jan. ...

To tackle the issue of diversity, the Young Lawyers’ Section of The Missouri Bar Board of Governors decided to add an alternating diversity seat. “It started with the diversity committee and speaking with them and observing the composition of the ...

The family of three boys filed a lawsuit against two recreational marijuana businesses after a shooting that left their mother dead and their father charged with murder. The lawsuit claims companies that made a type of marijuana-infused candy and sold ...

A former Boone County court clerk pleaded guilty late last month to leaking information about an ongoing drug-trafficking investigation. Christin Sledd, 25, of Columbia, pleaded guilty April 29 in federal court to using a telephone to facilitate a drug-trafficking conspiracy. ...

Two U.S. senators say one way to reduce long airport security lines this summer is for airlines to drop their fees on checking luggage. It’s the latest suggestion for dealing with what could be a hellish summer at the nation’s ...

Ryan Walsh, a former Bryan Cave attorney, was sentenced Tuesday to time served with three years of supervised release for making threats against a former colleague. Walsh, 32, is to be released Wednesday. He pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court ...

A split appellate court panel on Tuesday said a woman who was fired for smacking a co-worker can still get unemployment compensation. The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District parsed the unemployment statute’s recently tightened definition of “misconduct” and found ...

Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland submitted a questionnaire detailing his experience to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, taking another step in the White House’s effort to break a Senate blockade on his nomination. Although the committee chairman, GOP Sen. ...

Lezley McSpadden was taking a cigarette break from her grocery store job when a friend called to say someone had been shot in the street near Canfield Green Apartments in Ferguson. Within minutes, her cellphone rang again. It was a ...

Roy Speer, the co-founder of Home Shopping Network, was a Florida billionaire once listed on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans. His investments were handled by Ami Forte of Morgan Stanley, and she made tens of millions buying and ...