As the new Sedalia Retrieving Freedom Inc., headquarters is being built, puppies are already being placed into foster homes and receiving classroom training. RFI provides service dogs for military veterans and for children who have autism. It was founded in ...
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Hover over the gallery above to click through more photos. It’s 7:10 p.m. on a Saturday night, and Ashley wants a drink. A Kansas City Fashion Week worker wearing an earpiece relayed the message to Philip Willoughby, a Kansas City ...
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Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice George W. Draper III’s fiery speech at The Missouri Bar Annual Meeting boosted the profile of long-running concerns about bias in the judicial review process. In his Sept. 19 speech, Draper called out the “unprecedented ...
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The staff of Missouri Lawyers Media won five awards in the annual Missouri Press Foundation Better Newspaper contest — including a first-place finish for Senior Reporter Scott Lauck in the category for best feature story. The awards, which honored content ...
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If you’ve ever thought the compressed format of oral arguments makes it hard to get your point across, think of what Nina Totenberg goes through. “I think you probably have to pay attention if you’re listening to one of my ...
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It’s easy to breeze past the Judicial Learning Center and not notice it. The entrance is just a doorway on the first floor of the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse in downtown St. Louis, in the hall between the elevators ...
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A St. Louis County judge on Sept. 23 entered a judgment of $557,292 against attorney Chelsea Merta and her firm, Lotus Law, bringing resolution to a civil dispute with her former employer, the Stange Law Firm. St. Louis County Judge ...
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Read More »The Missouri Gaming Commission has received 84 complaints this year that identified at least 200 possibly illegal slot machines and other gaming devices across the state, as lottery officials, casino operators and some business operators complain that the spread of ...
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Against all odds, what appears to be Samuel Clemens’ signature from his youth has turned up, scrawled on the wall of the Missouri cave he made famous in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” In the mid-1800s, long before he took ...
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Read More »A nonprofit group that advocates for the separation of church and state alleges that a Missouri school district on the outskirts of Kansas City is forcing religion on students and threatened to sue if it didn’t stop. Oak Grove Superintendent ...
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Read More »A former Missouri lawmaker now running for mayor of Ferguson has been fined $77,500 after a state ethics panel determined he used campaign money on personal expenses. The Missouri Ethics Commission on Tuesday announced the fine for Courtney Curtis, a ...
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