Former Betonsports Plc Chief Executive Officer David Carruthers pleaded guilty in an illegal-gambling case filed by the U.S. Justice Department. Betonsports, now bankrupt, took in $1.25 billion in 2004, with 98 percent coming from bets made through its Web sites, ...

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Correction: In the original version of this article, the first name of Janis Good was misspelled. Good, an assistant public defender, is one of the recipients of the St. Louis Daily Record’s Public Service Practitioner Award. We regret the error. ...

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Snow might delay justice in St. Louis area courtrooms today, but it won’t deny justice. The National Weather Service forecast 3 to 5 inches of snow mixed with sleet by this morning with the possibility of another 2 inches falling ...

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Settlements reached in federal court cases made a surprising showing in the top settlements list this year, capturing the top spot and two other positions on the top 10. Last year only two federal cases made the list of top ...

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Shirley Phelps-Roper, the daughter of the founder of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., sued the city of St. Joseph last week over a city ordinance barring protests around funerals and funeral processions. Phelps-Roper and members of her church believe ...

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Last Wednesday afternoon a sheriff in a small Alabama town went to jail. He didn’t go there for breaking Alabama law. Instead, Sheriff Greg Bartlett was placed in his own jail after prisoners there testified in a Birmingham, Ala., U.S. ...

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The first federal lawsuit filed in Missouri was born seven seconds after 11:13 a.m. Jan. 2 in the U.S. District Court in St. Louis. The parents are the Greater St. Louis Construction Laborers Welfare Fund, accompanied by three related employee ...

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NovaStar Financial Inc. agreed to pay $7.25 million to settle a class action lawsuit earlier this week. The Kansas City-based company, which at one point was a leader in subprime lending, faced accusations that it attempted to drive up its ...

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