Missouri inmate Earl Ringo Jr., convicted in two murders at a Columbia restaurant in 1998, was executed early Wednesday.
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Read More »Missouri inmate Earl Ringo Jr., convicted in two murders at a Columbia restaurant in 1998, was executed early Wednesday.
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Read More »Brew Hub LLC, the craft-beer venture that’s majority owned by billionaire investor Ron Burkle, is taking its attack on traditional brewers straight to Budweiser’s back door.
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Read More »The Missouri Supreme Court has restored a $1 million punitive damages award against a former Kansas City car dealer, ruling that a state law capping the amount couldn’t be applied constitutionally.
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Read More »St. Louis Circuit Court judges Monday morning elected their leaders for next year and selected the first new circuit clerk since the job became an appointed — instead of elected — position.
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Read More »In wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Burwell v. Hobby Lobby ruling, an attorney argued Monday to the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals that the same standard should apply to a Missouri state representative’s lawsuit that opposes insurance coverage of contraceptives for his three daughters.
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Read More »St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison on Thursday heard arguments over whether Francine Katz, who sued Anheuser-Busch for discrimination, should get a new trial but did not make a decision on the request.
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Read More »Attorneys for Earl Ringo Jr., a Missouri man scheduled to be executed Wednesday, have asked the governor’s office for a stay to allow an independent board to examine the role of race in Ringo’s trial and sentencing.
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Read More »St. Louis County Circuit Judge Ellen Levy Siwak took under advisement Wednesday a request to open Michael Brown’s juvenile record, but arguments at a hearing indicated Brown had not been charged with certain felony offenses as a juvenile.
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Read More »The former CEO of a failed artificial sweetener factory project in Moberly pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony stealing and securities fraud.
Read More »The potential impact of Missouri’s new “right to farm” constitutional amendment was on the minds of the Missouri Supreme Court’s judges on Tuesday, even if it doesn’t necessarily figure into the case before them.
Read More »An appeals court ordered a retrial of a $5 million verdict in favor of a company whose insurer refused to settle a dispute over a construction project.
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