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Armstrong Teasdale has elected David W. Braswell as the firm’s new chairman and Patrick W. Rasche to succeed Braswell as the firm’s managing partner, effective June 1.

Republican Gov. Mike Parson signed a bill Monday to make Missouri the final state to adopt a prescription drug monitoring database aimed at flagging possible opioid misuse.

A Kansas City man convicted of killing two women a decade apart was sentenced Monday to life in prison for one of the killings and 15 years behind bars for the other, with the terms to run consecutively.

A former Democratic St. Louis County executive has been released from prison after serving less than two years of a nearly four-year sentence on corruption charges.

Since its founding in 1889, Shook, Hardy & Bacon has opened offices across the United States and even in London. But until now, its Missouri presence was limited to its home office in Kansas City.

The Missouri Supreme Court has thrown out a $113.7 million judgment for a class of corrections officers after finding they mostly failed to meet their burden to establish liability.

After disposing of every reason not to decide the case, the Missouri Supreme Court on June 1 resolved a long-running dispute over a $3 court fee by striking it down as unconstitutional.

Jury selection has begun in the retrial of two former St. Louis police officers accused of attacking a Black undercover colleague during a 2017 protest.

A Republican House member said Friday he and other state lawmakers will ask Missouri Gov. Mike Parson to pardon Kevin Strickland, who has spent more than 40 years in prison for a triple murder that prosecutors now say he did not commit.

A divided Missouri Supreme Court has struck down a sweeping public-sector union law after finding a carve-out for public-safety unions violated the equal protection clause of the Missouri Constitution.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a $2.1 billion judgment against Johnson & Johnson in a St. Louis mass tort case that alleged the company’s talcum powder products contained microscopic ovarian-cancer causing asbestos fibers.