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“This marriage fortunately was brief,” wrote the Fairfax County Circuit judge who handled the divorce of Deborah Martin and Ernest J. Lofgren. In fact, litigation over the relationship has gone on longer than the Virginia couple were together. The marriage ...

Florida man pleads guilty to Lipitor smuggling A Florida man pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to his role in a multimillion-dollar conspiracy to sell counterfeit, illegally imported and misbranded Lipitor and other drugs and participating in a conspiracy to ...

Andrea C. Dorch had a good job as a city engineer. But after a while, the mathematical certainty of engineering became tedious to her. It was the legal matters – safety, liability, codes – that intrigued her. “Two plus two ...

After one judge was subpoenaed and another recused herself, a case in Jackson County has been moved to its fourth judge. Judge John R. O’Malley was assigned last week to preside over a case alleging misappropriation of a company’s name. ...

A sexual harassment case began Monday in St. Louis County Circuit Court against St. Louis Community College involving a campus police officer’s inappropriate advances toward a secretary. Caren Sharpe, a former secretary with the college police department on the school’s ...

Jamie Gold, the former Hollywood agent who won $12 million at this year’s World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, was sued by a TV producer who claimed the two agreed to split the prize. Crispin Leyser said in court ...

Prudential to pay $600M to settle fund probes Prudential Financial, the second-largest U.S. life insurer, agreed to pay $600 million to settle investigations of improper mutual fund trading and avoid criminal prosecution of one of its units. The payments are ...

Radio stations face discrimination lawsuit A lawsuit filed last week against Cumulus media alleges race, age and gender discrimination against two Kansas City radio stations. According to the compliant filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Rhonda Nolen was ...

The first trial of alleged serial killer Lorenzo Gilyard was pushed back to March 2007 by a Jackson County judge on Friday. Judge John R. O’Malley set a date of March 5 for the trial. It had been scheduled to ...

Patient of 13 years sues dentist A man who sued his longtime dentist agreed to settle the case early last week for $23,500. Michael Laddin had been a patient of Dawn Berkvam for 13 years before the filing of the ...

The federal government and Shell Oil are close to settling a lawsuit related to the cost of cleaning up hazardous materials found at the Great Lakes Container Corp. in St. Louis. Under the settlement, Shell would pay $228,630 to the ...