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A Missouri man is suing an imprisoned police officer convicted of violating his civil rights two years ago, when the officer repeatedly shot him with a stun gun during a traffic stop and gave him a heart attack that he ...

Documents from Donald Trump’s aborted 1999 attempt to buy a Kansas City casino are locked away by the Missouri Gaming Commission in Jefferson City, but because Trump eventually withdrew his application for a gaming license, nobody gets to see them. ...

A police unit set up to investigate crimes against children including rape, abuse and serious negligence failed to properly investigate thousands of cases, with some detectives doing no work at all, according to internal police memos that described “gross negligence,” ...

A challenge over the propriety of a judge’s wife serving as a juror ultimately was set aside in a Western District Court of Appeals ruling Tuesday, with the court finding the defendant failed to raise a challenge at the time ...

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 ...