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A second-grader who refused a teacher’s request to move to a different chair suffered emotional and physical pain when a school resource officer placed the 7-year-old in handcuffs, a lawsuit filed Thursday against Kansas City Public Schools alleges. The lawsuit, ...

A federal judge announced Wednesday that an investigation into recordings of attorney-client meetings and phone calls at a Leavenworth detention center will probe potential 6th Amendment violations and the involvement of federal prosecutors and a private prison company. The U.S. Attorney’s ...

A federal judge has ordered jails that house pretrial detainees for the Western District of Missouri to stop recording all attorney-client communications. U.S. Judge Stephen Bough issued the order Friday in the case of U.S. v. Ronald L. Bell, in ...

The work of a Missouri-based group that seeks exoneration for its clients is highlighted in a new MTV series that started Wednesday. The show, “Unlocking the Truth,” is hosted by Ryan Ferguson, who was exonerated in 2013 for the death ...

Kansas City lawyers will have a chance to earn continuing legal education credits from Cuba in 2017. The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association announced Monday that registration is now open for a CLE program in conjunction with Cuba Cultural Travel. ...

A motion filed in federal court in Kansas on Monday alleges recorded phone calls between attorneys and inmates at a Leavenworth detention center may go back as far as 2011 and involve inmates beyond defendants of a drug smuggling case ...

Questions over whether the proposed $12.2 billion merger of Westar Energy and Kansas City Power & Light is detrimental to utility customers could lead to possible rejection by Missouri regulators. Missouri-based Great Plains Energy announced in May that it had ...

The deep-fried Twinkie is jumping from the state fair to the home freezer. Hostess Brands, the maker of lunchbox treats like Ho Hos, is launching packaged “Deep Fried Twinkies” starting Friday that mark its first foray into frozen foods. The ...

A federal judge has ordered Kansas and Missouri detention facilities that hold District of Kansas detainees to stop recording privileged attorney-client communications. The order from Judge Julie Robinson on Aug. 11 followed an emergency hearing in the government’s criminal case ...

The dismissal of a taxpayer suit challenging Missouri’s death penalty protocol was affirmed by the Western District Court of Appeals on Tuesday. The suit was brought in Cole County against the Missouri Department of Corrections by former state representative and ...

If the final scene of “Gone with the Wind” had taken place at work, Rhett Butler might well find himself without a job or an unemployment check. The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District said Tuesday that a woman was ...