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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 ...

A group of atheists has sued Kansas City officials over the planned use of $65,000 in tourism tax dollars to aid an upcoming Baptist convention. American Atheists Inc. and two Kansas City members filed the lawsuit Friday against Kansas City ...

Lantz Welch, a larger-than-life Kansas City trial attorney, died Thursday. He was 83. Welch’s death was announced in an online obituary that he wrote himself and that proclaimed the lawyer sometimes known as “Sir Lantzlot” as “large and very much ...

Four and a half years after winning a landmark workers’ compensation case, a Kansas City municipal worker has gotten the city to pay the judgment. In December 2011, Richard Robinson won a $990,000 judgment against a fellow employee, Cheryl Hooker, ...