One family court commissioner and two private attorneys have been nominated by the 21st judicial commission to fill the position of St. Louis County Associate Circuit Court Judge. Commissioner Kristine Kerr with the St. Louis County Family Court, attorney Nellie ...

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Last week the Missouri Legislature sent to Gov. Jay Nixon a bill to repeal the law requiring motorcyclists over 21 to wear helmets. As someone who hasn’t ridden a motorcycle in years but would love to again someday, I have ...

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Columbia attorney Mark D. Pfeiffer has been appointed to fill the first of three vacancies on the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District. The appointment is Gov. Jay Nixon's first to an appellate court since taking office in January. Pfeiffer will fill one of three openings on the Western District. He officially takes the spot of Judge Ron Holliger, who left the bench in January to go work as general counsel for Attorney General Chris Koster. Pfeiffer's name was submitted to Nixon in March, along with 17th Judicial Circuit Judge Jacqueline A. Cook and Cynthia L. Reams Martin. The governor had until Tuesday to make his selection.

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As the state prepares to complete next year's budget, Attorney General Chris Koster's thoughts have also turned to money - both for his lawyers and for the state as a whole. Koster on Thursday said he intends to increase pay for entry-level lawyers in the attorney general's office to $42,500, a 23 percent increase from the current $32,900. Koster said current pay levels are less than those of public defenders and many prosecutor's offices. "Bringing this office into something akin to basic economic parity is my No. 1 priority," Koster said Thursday.

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Gov. Jay Nixon has appointed Phillip C. Dressel, 41, to the Missouri Wine and Grape Board. Dressel has been president of Mount Pleasant Winery in Augusta, Mo., since 1994. According to Nixon’s office, the purpose of the board is to ...

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A federal lawsuit demands that Gov. Jay Nixon recuse himself from clemency considerations for three death row inmates, saying he can't be trusted to be objective because he prosecuted the men as attorney general. Dennis J. Skillicorn and two others say Nixon, through his representation of the Missouri Department of Corrections, "intentionally obstructed federal court appointed counsel's access to evidence in support of clemency." Based on those allegations, the Missouri Supreme Court last year granted a stay of execution for Skillicorn, who had been scheduled to die Aug 27. However, the court on Monday issued a new execution date for Skillicorn - May 20.

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McCormack joins Corporate Group Corporate Group Inc., a commercial real estate, development and management company based in St. Charles, has hired Tom McCormack as a commercial leasing agent. McCormack is a recent graduate of Southeast Missouri State University.   Walton ...

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The Kansas City Star on Friday reported that the Missouri General Assembly will very likely do nothing with the various ethics reform bills currently generating dust on the shelves of the twin-headed hydra in Jefferson City. Apparently only five of ...

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The 21st Judicial Commission announced on Tuesday its three nominees for the vacancy created by Judge Bernhardt Drumm Jr.’s retirement. Associate Circuit Judge Thea Anne Sherry, private attorney Thomas Prebil and St. Louis County Counselor Patricia Redington were named as ...

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In some sense, Gov. Jay Nixon inspired the new direction for a proposal to require voters to show government-issued photo identification at the polls. Since the Missouri Supreme Court struck down a voter ID law in 2006, Republicans have been ...

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MasterCard names Ferri to new post as group executive MasterCard Worldwide has named Antonio Ferri to the newly created position of group executive of Enterprise Architecture. In his new post at the company’s Global Technology and Operations headquarters in O’Fallon. ...

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