St. Charles-based American Railcar Industries agreed Monday to settle a federal lawsuit filed by a chemical company over railcars that exploded while transporting the chemical company’s product. OCI Chemical Corp., based in Marietta, Ga., sued for $14 million, plus punitive ...

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Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, was told by a federal jury to pay $388 million to a Singapore company for stealing a patented invention used to deter software piracy. The jury in Providence, R.I., deliberated less than two ...

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Judges and lawyers gathered in the en banc courtroom of the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse on Friday afternoon to remember a former congressman, judge and friend: William L. Hungate. Hungate, who served on the U.S. District Court in St. ...

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08-2437 Jan Fallo; Pamela Epperson; Laura Muehlan; Verne Anderson; Amy Clark; Yulanda Diamond; Monica Licklider; Latonya Love; Mary McNurlin; Jessica Richardson; Kisha Robinson; Patricia Stuteville; Zach Green; Dene Beck; Carrie Boyer; Jamika Brewer; Yulanda Boyd; Kelly Brewster; Kristeena Cloud; Jenna ...

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Was an Internal Revenue Service investigation of a St. Louis accounting firm a misguided attempt to close the company down for good? It looks like it to U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber, who on Tuesday issued an order denying ...

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The city of St. Joseph has agreed not to enforce an ordinance prohibiting protests at funerals, pending the outcome of a related lawsuit against a similar state statute. The city’s ordinance was passed in response to Westboro Baptist Church’s protest ...

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Former Betonsports Plc Chief Executive Officer David Carruthers pleaded guilty in an illegal-gambling case filed by the U.S. Justice Department. Betonsports, now bankrupt, took in $1.25 billion in 2004, with 98 percent coming from bets made through its Web sites, ...

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Correction: In the original version of this article, the first name of Janis Good was misspelled. Good, an assistant public defender, is one of the recipients of the St. Louis Daily Record’s Public Service Practitioner Award. We regret the error. ...

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Snow might delay justice in St. Louis area courtrooms today, but it won’t deny justice. The National Weather Service forecast 3 to 5 inches of snow mixed with sleet by this morning with the possibility of another 2 inches falling ...

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Shirley Phelps-Roper, the daughter of the founder of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., sued the city of St. Joseph last week over a city ordinance barring protests around funerals and funeral processions. Phelps-Roper and members of her church believe ...

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Last Wednesday afternoon a sheriff in a small Alabama town went to jail. He didn’t go there for breaking Alabama law. Instead, Sheriff Greg Bartlett was placed in his own jail after prisoners there testified in a Birmingham, Ala., U.S. ...

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