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Group claims Burger King too slow to leave trans fats Burger King Holdings, the second-largest U.S. hamburger chain, was sued by a group that claims the company’s switch to cooking oil without trans fats is too slow. The Center for ...

Many of the cases of alleged voter fraud in Missouri — which have become entangled in the congressional investigation into the firing of U.S. attorneys — are still working their way through the court system. The issue became more prominent ...

State claims Family Support sent hearing notice because of backlog

Twenty years ago Congress linked its members’ salaries to those of federal district judges with the hope the public wouldn’t mind so much when Congress approved salary increases. But faced with voter hostility, Congress continued to vote down pay increases, ...

The 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals is expected to deal soon with a 1998 Missouri law banning so-called partial-birth abortions. But just in case that decision takes awhile, the state may put a backup version on the books. The ...

John Ashcroft, then U.S. attorney general, gestures during a farewell ceremony held for him at the U.S. Justice Department on Jan. 24, 2005. Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey testified Tuesday that then White House counsel Alberto Gonzales pressured Ashcroft ...

nsas City man receives five years for enticing minor Raymond L. Wiley Jr. was sentenced in federal court last week for using the Internet to attempt to entice a minor for illicit sex. Wiley, 30, of Kansas City, received five ...

Tyco to pay $2.98 billion to settle accounting suits Tyco International agreed to pay $2.98 billion to settle investor lawsuits accusing it of inflating revenue, clearing the way for a split into three companies. Tyco said it would take a ...

Some first-years make as much as district judges

The former city attorney of Berkeley lost the latest – and final? – round in his battle with the city over its decision to fire him in 1999. On Tuesday, the Missouri Supreme Court, 7-1, reversed a lower court’s decision ...

Historic courthouses across Missouri were declared “endangered,” for the second year in a row by the Missouri Alliance for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit that advocates for the preservation of historic structures in the state. The 114 county courthouses in Missouri ...