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Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics will celebrate the grand re-opening of its permanent exhibit at Wonderscope Children’s Museum from 6-8 p.m. March 28. Wonderscope is located at 5705 Flint in Shawnee, Kan. The hands-on exhibit has been completely redesigned to ...

Gov. Bob Holden recently announced that students attending Missouri’s public institutions of higher education who are called to active duty to support America’s efforts in the Middle East are eligible for tuition relief. Students may choose a complete refund of ...

A number of area optometrists and ophthalmologists turn to Doug Nagel of Nagel’s Low Vision Resource Center as a major resource for helping visually impaired patients. He works closely with the doctor’s to provide the best device for each patient, ...

Although a child lives next door to his grandparents, and is regularly at their home for visits, he is not necessarily covered under their homeowner’s insurance policy as a resident relative. Mathew Lilly lived next door to his grandparents, Ken ...

Many legal services organizations were on the edge of their seats, waiting for a U.S. Supreme Court decision that could potentially have threatened their services. In a time when large amounts of state and federal funding have already been cut, ...

The sale of a home between family members turned sour when one seller refused to allow the buyer full access to the purchased property. William Dean Williams and his parents Wade Williams Jr. and Mary Williams agreed to sell a ...

From negligence to products liability and breach of contract, Jackson County juries awarded a total of $2,349,626,000 in the top 10 verdicts of 2002. According to records obtained from the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, the largest verdict was ...

An elective surgery, one which doctor’s promised would be an out-patient procedure, left a 53-year-old Joplin women in the hospital for 73 days before she died of what her doctor claimed was a perforated ulcer that ruptured. “She was supposed ...

One of the largest cases to ever pass through Jackson County’s courts turned out to be the second largest verdict in the nation in 2002. Kansas City was shocked when it was discovered that pharmacist Robert Courtney was diluting cancer ...

Ask Lexington attorney Mark Evans what the single most important factor was in winning an $80 million product liability verdict in a case before the 16th Circuit last year and he will tell you the action of facts. In Peters ...

Block Financial Corp. lost the sale of a credit card portfolio when America Online said it would no longer honor the contract. A Jackson County jury decided AOL cost Block $17 million. It was a confusing case to present to ...