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The parents of a 19-year-old college sophomore who drowned at a popular water park near Rolla settled a wrongful-death lawsuit against the business and its owners for $1 million. David Jackson was a Saint Louis University High School graduate and ...

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A 63-year-old motorcyclist whose injuries from a 2016 collision led to an above-the-knee amputation settled a lawsuit against another motorist and that man’s employer for about $3.29 million. On April 15, 2016, St. Charles County resident Gregory James Kneemiller was ...

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A 51-year-old truck driver injured in a 2016 collision with a second long-haul trucker in southern Illinois settled a federal lawsuit against the other driver and his employer for $528,000. Edward Gray, who was 48 at the time, suffered a ...

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A Jackson County jury awarded nearly $420,000 to a 40-year-old former Costco manager who sued the retailer after a 2017 dismissal that he called retaliatory. Kevin Hines of Grandview, a 16-year Costco employee, also sued two assistant managers and a ...

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A St. Charles County jury has awarded nearly $100,000 to a 56-year-old St. Charles man who was injured in a two-car collision on Christmas Eve 2016. Kenneth E. Hunn Jr. sued James A. Mainieri, 25, of O’Fallon, in October 2017. ...

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A Clay County jury deliberated for nine hours before siding with a North Kansas City medical clinic, doctor and nurse in an infant wrongful-death lawsuit. Natalie and John Piatt filed the suit after the Jan. 22, 2015 death of their ...

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A Mexican landscaper who was paralyzed 14 years ago after falling from a ladder while trimming trees at a Ladue home settled a state workers’ compensation claim for more than $1.1 million. Jose Angel Valdez Garcia, who was 36 at ...

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The state of Missouri’s 12-year takeover of the formerly unaccredited St. Louis Public Schools may be complete, but a legal dispute involving a $4 million default judgment against an ex-music teacher imprisoned for repeated sexual assault of a female student ...

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An Illinois woman who was struck from behind by a truck during her morning commute in East St. Louis settled a federal suit against the other driver and his employer for $550,000. Wendy Zeller, 45, was driving her 2008 Hyundai ...

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Pete Woods traces the roots of his deep community service to the family dinner table in 1970s University City. With a newspaper union president for a father and a mother, Harriett Woods, who would rise from the U City Council ...

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As the mother of a black son who was 13 at the time, Pamela Meanes always felt the 2014 fatal police shooting of Michael Brown was personal — even as she used her platform as president of the nation’s largest ...

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