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The committee that evaluates Missouri’s nonpartisan judges says all 53 judges up for retention in November meet the necessary standards to keep their jobs.

The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District has reinstated a lawsuit against Warrensburg landlords whose failure to install a handrail in a stairwell allegedly led to a woman’s injuries.

The Appellate Judicial Commission is accepting applications ahead of Judge Daniel E. Scott’s anticipated retirement from the Court of Appeals Southern District at the end of 2020.

The Missouri Supreme Court has suspended the license of a Columbia attorney who admitted to violating various ethics rules, including calling clients late at night to harass them to pay fees.

A southwest Missouri landowner who built a creek crossing that was blamed for three paddler drownings is in trouble with the Army Corps of Engineers over his effort to replace the structure.

A $20,000 acrylic case now protects Thomas Jefferson's original headstone on the University of Missouri campus, a response to vandalism concerns amid an ongoing dispute about whether the university should honor the third president who also was a slave owner.

Missouri lawmakers are, for now, content to let the St. Louis Circuit Attorney exclusively prosecute murder cases in the city of St. Louis.

A Jackson County judge awarded a class of tenants slightly more than $52 million in damages against a beleaguered landlord and its previous manager after calling their conduct “outrageous and reprehensible.”

A ban on some high school sports will continue in St. Louis County until the number of coronavirus cases in the county is reduced and in-person education can resume, health officials said Friday.

A scathing state audit has found that a struggling St. Louis suburb mismanaged money and failed to comply with a state law that guarantees public access to meetings and records.

An Associated Press review of medical records for four women and interviews with lawyers revealed growing allegations that Dr. Mahendra Amin performed surgeries and other procedures on detained immigrants that they never sought or didn't fully understand.