UPDATE: Auditor Susan Montee issued the following statement regarding the ruling:

LAGERS and PACARS are operating under a veil of secrecy. My office is required by state statute to examine these entities every three years. We attempted to evaluate these systems, as…

JEFFERSON CITY — A group seeking to change Missouri law so that employees can only form unions on secret ballots have survived a legal challenge to their proposed ballot initiative.

Cole County Circuit Court Judge Richard Callahan ruled today against a union-backed…

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JEFFERSON CITY — President Barack Obama today announced the long-anticipated nomination of Richard Callahan to be the next U.S. attorney in eastern Missouri.

Callahan has been a judge on the Cole County Circuit Court since 2002. Before that, he spent 30…

A judge has rejected St. Charles County and St. Louis County’s challenge of a $10 increase in the fee charged by sheriff’s deputies across Missouri for delivering civil subpoenas, writs, summonses and other areas.

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The money raised by the fee hike, enacted in…

Judge Richard Callahan

One thing that was clear in the courtroom drama from yesterday’s e-mail hearing is that Cole County Circuit Court Judge Richard Callahan isn’t a big fan of his fellow Democrat, Gov.-elect Jay Nixon.

The hearing was scheduled, ostensibly, for…

JEFFERSON CITY – A Cole County Circuit Court judge approved a settlement today between Gov. Matt Blunt and court-appointed attorneys that provides thousands of public documents that had been sought by state investigators.

The investigators were appointed last year by Attorney General Jay…

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In what could be a very interesting next chapter in the ongoing e-mail/public records saga involving Gov. Matt Blunt, there is a court hearing at 1:30 in Cole County today to approve the settlement between Blunt and the court appointed…

Attorneys for Gov. Matt Blunt and the attorney general’s office will be in court today to argue the ongoing litigation over the governor’s e-mails, but indications are clear that a settlement is in the offing.

The two sides have been…

Prime Buzz’s Jason Noble and some other reporters caught up with Gov. Matt Blunt while he was decorating the Capitol Christmas Tree and the holiday spirit overcame the governor as he “dished” on the e-mail dispute that has hovered like the Grinch…

A Cole County Circuit Court judge on Tuesday quashed an attempt to depose Gov. Matt Blunt and delayed a trial seeking to determine if the governor’s administration violated open records laws.

Court-appointed attorneys Louis Leonatti and Joe Maxwell are seeking to depose Blunt in…