JEFFERSON CITY — Citing concern over the solvency of a fund that pays out certain worker’s compensation claims in Missouri, Attorney General Chris Koster has temporarily decided against entering into any more settlement agreements and has suspended those agreements that were…

JEFFERSON CITY — Here’s the text of the letter Attorney General Chris Koster provided to former state attorney Scott Eckersley as part of the state’s oral agreement:

To Whom It May Concern:

The Eckersley v. Blunt case was pending when I began serving as…

Eckersley

JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster signed a letter this week clearing a former government attorney of allegations of wrongdoing made against him by the administration of former Gov. Matt Blunt.

But before fired Blunt deputy counsel Scott Eckersley got the…

JEFFERSON CITY — A campaign committee that donated $600,000 to Attorney General Chris Koster during last November’s election has agreed to pay the Missouri Ethics Commission $10,000 in a “fee” for violations of state election laws.

The ethics commission published it’s finding…

JEFFERSON CITY — A report from Attorney General Chris Koster concludes there was no Sunshine Law violation in the withholding of a report showing elevated levels of E. coli bacteria at Lake of the Ozarks.

The inquiry, conducted by Koster assistant Ted…

JEFFERSON CITY — The first difficult political test for Attorney General Chris Koster could come later this week as the Democrat releases his report into allegations that the Department of Natural Resources violated the Sunshine Law in refusing to release a…

Brad Lager

JEFFERSON CITY –A Senate committee is investigating what led a state environmental agency to sit on a report showing unsafe E. coli levels at the Lake of the Ozarks.

Sen. Brad Lager, R-Savannah, announced the probe today. He said a…

Eckersley

JEFFERSON CITY — Is a fired employee’s defamation and wrongful termination suit against former Gov. Matt Blunt settled or not?

The former employee, Scott Eckersley, sent word to the state attorney general’s office today that he had fired his attorneys, Steve…

JEFFERSON CITY — Attorney General Chris Koster told a group of Sunshine Law advocates earlier this year that he’d take the state’s open records law seriously.

Today, he made good on his word with a lawsuit against the Northeast Ambulance and Fire Protection…

JEFFERSON CITY – The state of Missouri saved taxpayers about $2 million by settling a lawsuit against former Gov. Matt Blunt filed by a fired attorney, according to records obtained by the Post-Dispatch.

Last week, Attorney General Chris Koster’s office announced a settlement…