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Four lawyers. Two shock jocks. One flirtatious paralegal. A Florida judge will soon decide if three well-known Tampa attorneys tricked a rival lawyer into getting a DUI in an attempt to derail opposing counsel on a defamation case. The ethics ...

The Missouri Legislature sent Gov. Jay Nixon a measure Friday that supporters say would make things easier for county clerks and prevent reprinting costs when ballot measures are changed by courts close to an election. Opponents of the measure charge ...

Todd Richardson, previously the House Majority Floor Leader, will serve as Speaker of the Missouri House following the resignation of John Diehl Jr. Diehl, R-Town and Country, officially resigned Friday after admitting to exchanging sexually suggestive text messages with a ...

The Missouri Supreme Court started up a work group to examine how municipal courts operate and make recommendations for possible changes.

A St. Louis County judge upheld a version of real estate magnate Robert Kaplan’s trust that left tens of millions of dollars in assets to his widow.

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Missouri Speaker of the House John J. Diehl Jr. has resigned amid a texting scandal befitting the national stage. Diehl said Thursday that he is resigning both from the Speaker’s position and from his elected job as a Republican representative ...

Federal judges appointed a merit selection panel to recommend a successor to U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Mummert III of St. Louis, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri announced Wednesday.

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A neuroscience professor was nearly finished testifying about the Colorado theater shooter’s lackluster lab performance when a juror scrawled out a question, passed to the judge on a slip of paper: Did James Holmes ever seem disconnected from reality? It ...

Patriot Coal Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday for the second time in three years. The company made the filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. It had emerged from an earlier bankruptcy case ...

As protesters on Medicaid coverage chanted outside Missouri House doors Wednesday afternoon, the voice of Rep. Gina Mitten, D-St. Louis County, cut across the chamber inside. Mitten, chairwoman of the House minority caucus, announced she was circulating a petition calling ...

Missouri Supreme Court judges weighed whether a former Lathrop & Gage partner should be disciplined for her intimate relationship with the president of a corporate client. A disciplinary panel has recommended that Allison Bergman’s license be suspended for at least ...