President Donald Trump on Thursday granted a rare posthumous pardon to boxing’s first black heavyweight champion, clearing Jack Johnson’s name more than 100 years after what many see as his racially-charged conviction. “I am taking this very righteous step, I ...
Read More »FBI briefed on allegations against Missouri governor
Allegations of sexual misconduct and campaign finance violations against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens have been shared with federal authorities by a private attorney and a key lawmaker, according to testimony Thursday during a legislative hearing. The hearing by a special ...
Read More »Taking on the system: ‘Dreamers’ are getting law degrees
Denia Perez’s parents brought her from Mexico to the United States illegally when she was 11. Last month, she became among the first of the so-called “Dreamers” to earn a law degree. And now, she and others are using their ...
Read More »Pickert’s family sues alleged killer
The family of a Kansas City attorney who was shot to death in his front yard is suing the man charged with killing him. The parents and widow of Tom Pickert claim in the wrongful-death lawsuit that David Jungerman, 80, ...
Read More »SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Flip-flops and summer plans
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and lawyer Paul Clement often find themselves on opposite sides of issues he argues and she helps decide at the high court. At a recent event in Washington, though, Kagan and Clement agreed new administrations ...
Read More »More than $8M awarded to victim of cult in trafficking case
More than $8 million was awarded Wednesday to a woman who alleged that the leader of a cult forced her to work without pay for a decade. U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree of Kansas wrote in the order that Royall ...
Read More »Senate bill overhauls handling of sex-harassment complaints
Senate negotiators on Wednesday released a bipartisan bill to overhaul the system for handling sexual-harassment complaints on Capitol Hill. The bill eliminates mandatory counseling, mediation and the “cooling off” period victims are currently required to wait before filing a lawsuit ...
Read More »Court says age doesn’t begin at conception
The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled Tuesday that a man can’t dodge his child-molestation convictions by calculating his victim’s age from the date of conception. In November 2016, Eric Ryan Crider was convicted in a Callaway County bench ...
Read More »ACLU: Amazon shouldn’t sell face-recognition tech to police
The American Civil Liberties Union and other privacy activists are asking Amazon to stop marketing a powerful facial-recognition tool to police, saying law-enforcement agencies could use the technology to “easily build a system to automate the identification and tracking of ...
Read More »McDonald’s workers file sex-harassment claims
Two national advocacy groups are teaming up to lodge sexual-harassment complaints against McDonald’s on behalf of 10 women who have worked at the restaurant in nine cities. The workers — one of them a 15-year-old from St. Louis — alleged ...
Read More »Judge appoints special prosecutor to decide on Greitens case
A St. Louis judge on Monday appointed the prosecutor in Jackson County as the special prosecutor who will decide whether to refile an invasion-of-privacy case against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens. St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison recused the St. Louis ...
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