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The Raymore-Peculiar School District has agreed to a $320,000 settlement of a lawsuit alleging that the district failed to follow its policy after a student’s sexual assault on a school bus and bullying by other students. The district disclosed the ...

The family of a Kansas lawmaker’s 10-year-old son killed last summer on what was billed as the world’s tallest water slide reached a settlement Wednesday with the park’s owner and the raft’s manufacturer. Terms of the deal filed in Kansas’ ...

Western District Court of Appeals clerk Terence G. Lord will retire July 1. The court has appointed Susan Sonnenberg, its staff counsel, to replace Lord. Lord joined the court in 1977 as a law clerk for Judge Ronald Somerville after ...

An election that saw Republicans gain power in Missouri and the departure of the Rams were among the top 10 stories in Missouri in 2016. The full list is: ELECTION Republicans won from president on down the ballot in the ...

A Missouri appeals court upheld a $9 million jury award against a caregiver whose husband raped and impregnated a developmentally disabled woman in St. Joseph. The verdict was the 17th largest plaintiffs’ win of 2015, as tracked by Missouri Lawyers ...

The Western District Court of Appeals upheld a $3.25 million jury verdict against a Grain Valley company awarded to a woman shot on its property by her ex-boyfriend. Truck insurance provider Owner-Operator Services, Inc., also known as OOSI, appealed the ...

A Jackson County jury on Thursday awarded more than $10 million in damages to a former employee of pest control company Orkin. Gary Gentry worked as a pest technician for Orkin’s Independence branch from 2007 until 2012, when he was ...

A southeast Missouri peach farm recently filed a lawsuit against Monsanto, saying the company sold seeds without safe herbicide, forcing farmers to spray illegal chemicals that drifted onto their farm and killed more than 30,000 peach trees this year. Attorneys ...

A lawsuit against a Kansas City firefighter and the Kansas City Fire Department over a motorcycle crash involving a city vehicle has ended in a $350,000 settlement. The Kansas City Council approved the settlement agreement by a unanimous vote without ...

A Grandview man will appear in court in December in connection with charges that he practiced law without a license in Kansas City-area municipal courts. Reginald Taylor, 40, has been charged in Jackson County with two counts of practicing law ...

A groundbreaking lawsuit against an Odessa gun shop that sold a mentally ill woman a handgun she used to kill her father has settled for $2.2 million. Lafayette County Circuit Judge Dennis Rolf signed off on the settlement Tuesday, ending ...