Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has sued a company he said defrauded people seeking mortgage relief. The suit, filed Tuesday in Jackson County Circuit Court, alleges that Orange, Calif.-based U.S. Foreclosure Relief Corp., also known as Lighthouse Services, violated the ...

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Was the city of Arnold so anxious to be the first municipality in Missouri to install red-light traffic cameras that it circumvented the law? Under Missouri statute Section 302.225, every court regulating the operation of vehicles on highways must report ...

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Linda Martinez’s path to leading Missouri’s Department of Economic Development hit yet another roadblock on Wednesday. Sen. Scott Rupp, R-Wentzville, blocked the St. Louis attorney’s nomination from coming up for a vote in the Missouri Senate after he expressed displeasure ...

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For the past several years I have sponsored legislation that would impose a moratorium on executions in Missouri while a commission does a complete study of the death penalty system in our state. This may seem a strange action for ...

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The Missouri Senate overwhelmingly rejected a commission’s recommendation to potentially boost pay for elected officials and judges. The 32-1 vote effectively killed a plan put forth late last year by the Missouri Citizens’ Commission on Compensation. The plan stipulated a ...

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Kansas City's former U.S. attorney, Bradley Schlozman, took into account political affiliation and ideology when hiring career lawyers as acting head of the agency's Civil Rights Division, an internal investigation reported.

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., accused of cheating hourly workers and forcing them to work through breaks, agreed to pay as much as $640 million to settle 63 federal and state class-action lawsuits. A settlement last week ends most of the group ...

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