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The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis’ 2015 Pro Bono Celebration had a heavy focus on municipal courts issues. BAMSL President Seth A. Albin, who kicked off the Wednesday event, stressed issues related to municipal courts have come to the ...

Defending police officers who have come under scrutiny like never before, President Barack Obama on Tuesday said the men and women who risk their lives to provide security are wrongly “scapegoated” for failing to deal with broader problems that lead ...

A federal judge refused Tuesday to block Missouri’s scheduled execution next week of an inmate who killed three convenience store workers with a claw hammer, rejecting his claim that the execution drugs could cause an agonizing reaction with his brain ...

St. Louis prosecutors argued to the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday that a recent amendment to the state constitution making the right to bear arms “unalienable” doesn’t mean some felons now have the right to carry guns. The judges were ...

Dennis Hastert pleaded guilty Wednesday to lying to the FBI in a hush-money scheme, agreeing to a deal with federal prosecutors that recommends he serve no more than six months in prison and averting a trial in the case. A ...

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit challenging an indecent exposure ordinance in Springfield on behalf of two women who organized a topless demonstration to protest laws that they say unfairly target women. The ACLU of Missouri argues ...

Rep. Paul Ryan has spent his entire life preparing for a job he says he never wanted. Ryan worked as a congressional intern in college, returning later to work as a paid staffer on Capitol Hill. By 28, he was ...

A federal judge has tossed out an activist’s lawsuit that sought to keep St. Louis from revoking an occupancy permit for his downtown shelter for homeless people. U.S. District Judge John Ross dismissed on Tuesday the lawsuit filed in March ...

Circuit Judge Steven Goldman said he removed a St. Louis County grand juror after “an incident occurring with a police officer witness” prompted Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch to seek more information about the juror, but the decision to remove the ...

The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled that sexual orientation discrimination is not prohibited under the Missouri Human Rights Act. The 2-1 opinion, released Tuesday, upheld Jackson County Circuit Judge Joel Fahnestock‘s decision that the plaintiff, James Pittman, failed ...

In a plea agreement Monday former St. Louis assistant circuit court attorney Bliss Barber Worrell admitted to not only having full knowledge that an officer assaulted a man in police custody, but to filing charges in an effort to conceal ...