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Death lawsuit raises background check issues

A $10 million wrongful-death suit brought against the trash company that employed the man accused of murdering fashion writer Christa Worthington is raising significant questions over an employer’s use of background checks. Specifically, lawyers said the civil case being brought ...

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McDermott to appeal share in $455 million jury verdict McDermott International, a Houston-based petroleum industry engineering company, said it will appeal a subsidiary’s 45 percent share of liability in a $455 million jury award stemming from an Illinois refinery fire. ...

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Brazilian victims’ families sue Honeywell over crash Honeywell International Inc., the world’s largest maker of airplane controls, was sued by relatives of 10 Brazilians killed when a corporate jet collided with a Boeing 737 passenger plane on Sept. 29. The ...

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State and Region Briefs

DNA evidence leads to charges in 1991 rape Jackson County prosecutors charged a Kansas City man with first-degree robbery, three counts of rape and two counts of sodomy for sexually assaulting a woman 15 years ago. John T. Words, 38, ...

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