Circuit courts aren’t just feeling the budget crunch from the state but from local governments, too. At a court en banc meeting of the St. Louis County Circuit Court, Presiding Judge John Ross described how the court had to make ...

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State courts are looking at the second year in a row of cutting $3 million from its general revenue, and circuit courts are going to bear the brunt of the cuts. The budget was the last issue addressed at a meeting of presiding judges Tuesday. The $3 million cut represents about 2 percent of the judiciary's $164 million general revenue budget, Chief Justice William Ray Price Jr. (pictured on far right) said on the opening day of the Judicial Conference.

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State Rep. Sally Faith said she gets about 100 e-mails and 30 or 40 phone calls each day from people concerned about potential cuts to the state’s budget. But Faith, who sits on the House Budget Committee, and several other ...

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