St. Louis Circuit Court judges appointed Matthew C. Melton commissioner of the circuit’s Drug Court. In a meeting Thursday, the judges selected Melton from among three finalists, also including Scott A. Millikan and Michael L. Walton, according to a ...
Read More »Anthem subsidiaries face Missouri lawsuit over data breach
A Missouri lawsuit seeking class action status accuses three insurance agencies of failing to safeguard sensitive consumer data from hackers who recently breached health insurer Anthem Inc.’s computer networks. A lawsuit first filed in February in St. Louis County on ...
Read More »Three top rainmakers break off from Baker Sterchi
Updated Three of Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice’s top revenue-makers have left and formed their own firm in Kansas City, according to court documents. A document filed Tuesday in relation to a rails-to-trails case stated that Thomas S. Stewart and ...
Read More »Federal court backs Vassar’s ouster of student in sex case
After a night of heavy drinking and sex in 2012, two Vassar College students traded Facebook messages suggesting the encounter was consensual. “I’m really sorry I led you on,” the woman wrote, adding, “I had a wonderful time last night.” ...
Read More »Finally, Congress OKs bill reshaping Medicare doctors’ fees
Conservatives hated that it’s expected to swell federal deficits over the coming decade. Liberals complained that it shortchanged health programs for children and women. But after years of complaints and failed efforts, huge majorities of both parties in Congress finally ...
Read More »Police: Missouri auditor had talked of suicide, left no note
Former Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich had talked for years of taking his life — and had become increasingly agitated over politics — but left no suicide note when he fatally shot himself, investigators said Tuesday. Police in the St. Louis ...
Read More »Missouri lawmakers struggle to find transportation funding
Some Missouri lawmakers are rallying around a proposal to raise the gas tax by 2 cents to help forestall a transportation funding shortfall that officials have warned could jeopardize the state receiving federal dollars. The Missouri Senate and a House ...
Read More »Missouri executes inmate after last-minute appeals rejected
A Missouri inmate has been executed for killing a man in a fit of rage over child support payments 16 years ago. Andre Cole, 52, on Tuesday night became the third convicted killer put to death this year in Missouri. ...
Read More »Supreme Court affirms suit’s dismissal, whole hog
In order to reach a conclusion in the case of a nuisance suit brought against a hog farm operation in northeast Missouri, it was necessary for the Missouri Supreme Court to know what it was talking about, Judge Zel M. ...
Read More »Appeals court upholds release of World Series ticket scandal records
In its third ruling on the issue, a Missouri appeals court upheld a judge’s order to release investigation records into a St. Louis police World Series ticket scandal.
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Read More »Gorman named to St. Charles bench
Gov. Jay Nixon appointed Grant C. Gorman as a St. Charles County associate circuit judge. Gorman served as an assistant prosecutor for St. Charles County from 1999 to 2006, and as the chief administrative law judge in the same county ...
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