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A Greene County jury decided no one bore the fault for a 2005 construction accident that left a foreman with a crushed left foot.

A group of former inmates can proceed with a class action against Lincoln County over the county’s practice of withholding portions of cash bonds to pay incarceration costs, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

Staff at the Lincoln County Justice Center in Troy will soon be scouring the facility looking for hand-written ledgers more than a decade old. At the behest of a federal lawsuit, they’ll be looking for records detailing payments the county plucked from cash bonds and applied to criminal defendants’ incarceration costs. In the federal suit, a potential class of criminal defendants alleges that long-held practice, which also crops up in Warren County and possibly other counties, amounts to “unlawful taking.”

Julie Gerding’s freshman honors English students will spend part of September parsing the murderous mystery of Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado.” But Gerding, a teacher at Parkway West High School in Ballwin, said she’s not sure if her students can log on to an online discussion forum to trade analyses of Poe’s vengeful protagonist.

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Missouri teachers can Facebook without worry. A Cole County judge has put off until February 2012 the effective date of a law that prohibited private online communication between teachers and students.

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Missouri teachers can Facebook without worry. A Cole County judge has put off until February 2012 the effective date of a law that prohibited private online communication between teachers and students.

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Greene County judge has set aside a $125,000 wrongful death punitive verdict levied against the ex-wife of a murdered Springfield attorney.

University of Missouri law professor Greg Scott collapsed yesterday and died of an apparent heart attack, said Jennifer Bukwosky, a Columbia attorney.

Missouri’s 44,000 public school teachers amount to a fraction of Facebook’s 750 million users, but a new law affecting teachers’ online activities might awaken the legal ire of the social media giant. That’s the opinion of the attorney representing the Missouri State Teacher’s Association in a legal challenge to SB54.

A Greene County jury has sided with a UPS driver who claimed a car wreck caused injuries that will require him to take off about 10 days every year to undergo a special type of physical therapy.

When attorney Suzanne Gladney surveys her field of prospective clients, she doesn’t see a field at all. She sees an apple orchard.

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