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St. Louis County trash fees aren’t taxes, court says

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

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St. Louis County’s fees for trash and recycling pick up are not taxes and do not violate Missouri’s Hancock Amendment, a state appeals court said today.

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Locomotive can remain in St. Louis

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

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An eight-year, ongoing court fight over a rare locomotive has screeched to a halt.

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STL County institutes pretrial release program

Thursday, May 27, 2010

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St. Louis County has recently instituted a supervised pretrial release program that gives judges another option to consider when setting a bond or handling a bond reduction.

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Years-long dispute over fate of historic locomotive chugs on

Thursday, April 15, 2010

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It’s a business arrangement that dates back nearly 60 years, and a court fight that’s been going since 2002, over a century-old train engine. The St. Louis County Museum of Transportation and a historic railway organization can’t agree on who’s in charge of a 1905 locomotive. The New Jersey-based railway group permanently loaned the train [...]

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Missouri courts absent from ‘judicial hellhole’ list

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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Missouri courts must have done something right this year. They weren’t on the annual list of “judicial hellholes” and were removed from the report’s “watch list.” The circuit courts in the city of St. Louis, St. Louis County and Jackson County didn’t make the 2008 list, either, but were determined to be jurisdictions to watch [...]

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Some courts told to reorganize staff

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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Judges and circuit clerks are gearing up for the headaches they expect from a Missouri Supreme Court requirement that counties pick one official to oversee court clerks. Most of the state already operates that way. But there are 37 counties plus St. Louis City, from a total of 115 political subdivisions, that don’t have circuit court [...]

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Another lawsuit filed over St. Louis County trash districts

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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A fourth lawsuit concerning St. Louis County’s trash districts has been filed. The potential class action filed by plaintiffs Paul Marquis and Cathy Armbruster alleges that the county violated its own county charter by not having citizens vote on the districting program. The lawsuit stems from a 2006 ordinance that divided the 100,000 homes in [...]

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St. Louis County sues discount travel companies

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

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St. Louis County has filed a lawsuit against a variety of online hotel bookers alleging the companies did not pay proper amounts of hotel and motel taxes. The petition alleges that the discount travel companies only paid the county hotel and motel taxes on the discounted rate they negotiate with the hotels for the rooms [...]

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New location for Reno investiture

Thursday, June 11, 2009

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Due to the closure of the St. Louis County Courts Building, Judge Gloria Clark Reno’s swearing-in ceremony has been moved to the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 7750 Carondelet Ave. in Clayton. Reno has been named a circuit judge for the St. Louis County Circuit Court. The investiture will begin at 3:30 p.m.

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St. Louis County foreclosure sales will continue

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

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Foreclosure sales will continue to be held at the St. Louis County Courts Building. The sales will be held at the front door of the courts building at 7900 Carondelet Ave. as scheduled, according to Judicial Administrator Paul Fox. The courts building and other county buildings have been without power since an electrical fire on [...]

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