Amtrak routes across Kansas and Missouri could keep running under a tentative agreement reached in a dispute over federally required safety systems, officials said Monday. The rail passenger service had warned it might stop or reroute its Southwest Chief line ...
Read More »Jurors side with defense in trial over PCBs
A St. Louis County jury on a split vote gave a defense verdict in a trial over allegations that the former Monsanto’s chemicals caused two California men’s cancer. Richard Cherry and Kevin Kitchen were the first of several hundred plaintiffs ...
Read More »Widow wins $11.5M verdict in asbestos case
Plaintiff’s attorneys won an $11.5 million verdict in St. Louis Circuit Court late last week for the widow of a man allegedly exposed to asbestos while working on a U.S. Navy ship in the 1950s. The jury awarded $1.5 million ...
Read More »3 Supreme Court justices maintain substantial stock holdings
New personal financial disclosures from the Supreme Court show that Chief Justice John Roberts and two other justices are maintaining significant investments in individual companies’ stock. The details of investments held by Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Stephen Breyer are ...
Read More »Missouri prosecutor decries store owner’s shooting of teen
A Kansas City, Missouri, area prosecutor says she’s seeking the highest punishment for a store clerk accused of shooting a teenager who allegedly was shoplifting cookies. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker’s office charged 26-year-old Mohammed Abdi on Wednesday with ...
Read More »Ameren utility looks to build eastern Missouri solar plant
Ameren Missouri has asked regulators for permission to build a solar plant along a half-mile Interstate 70 stretch in eastern Missouri’s Montgomery County. The utility, in its application to the Missouri Public Service Commission, said it wants to create a ...
Read More »Missouri budget official says more spending freezes unlikely
After years of restrictions on spending that have frustrated lawmakers and rendered some state programs ineffective, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s office says finances are in place to fully fund the new year’s budget — making further spending freezes unlikely. Newly ...
Read More »Experts: Hacking probe will stretch if Cards execs involved
The federal hacking investigation of the St. Louis Cardinals could take longer if high-level executives are implicated in the breach of the Houston Astros’ database, according to legal experts. The investigation is likely several months old, with much of the ...
Read More »Joyce won’t seek another term as circuit attorney
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce announced Thursday that she will not run for another term as circuit attorney in 2016. In a letter on her website announcing her decision, she said that she and her husband “have been discussing ...
Read More »Trade schools have to find grads jobs, or lose financial aid
Exotic dancers hired as admissions counselors. Recruiters told to seek out “impatient” individuals who have “few people in their lives who care about them.” Military personnel still recovering from brain damage told to sign on the dotted line. In the ...
Read More »Rookie police officer follows in dad’s footsteps
David Weinhold was 8 years old when his father was fatally shot while on duty as a St. Louis County police officer. The now 22-year-old is now following in his father’s footsteps as a rookie officer with the county police ...
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