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A growing minority-owned contracting company was forced out of business went it could not recover payment for work it completed in the 18th & Vine District. Rick Gill had been in business for over a decade, and had developed a ...

Joe Sola was a firefighter in Kansas City — the kind of firefighter who asked to work in the busiest stations and never thought twice about doing what was needed. He loved the job. Now, following a $1.2 million award ...

A man’s life changed due to one woman’s inattention, but thanks to the work of attorneys Frank Brancato and Gary Haggerty, he will receive compensation. Working as a construction worker, Gregory Rhymes was helping to pick up road signs after ...

A pilot program for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City that was successful beyond what the participants expected left the participating doctors short the gains they were promised. In 1983, the insurance company began a pilot program that ...

The Texas duo of Rick Illmer and Chad Johnson from Brown McCarroll, LLP, successfully represented Ameristar Jet Charter, Inc., in a negligence lawsuit and won a $2.1 million verdict. Ameristar Jet Charter, Inc. v. Dodson International Parts, Inc., arose from ...

A limited amount of evidence was all that was needed for a jury to find Ashley Park Apartments negligent in the drowning death of Carlos Sango. Attorneys James T. Thompson and Brendan C. Buckley proved that the 17-year-old drowned after ...

Sue Parker, sales representative of Select Van & Storage Co., was honored by Mayflower Transit as “Salesperson of the Month.”

The 2002-2003 Lieutenant Governor’s Service Award was recently presented to Carly Bachman, Lucy Bieger, Nicole Downs and Ira Sharpe of Kansas City, and Mabel Davis of Higginsville, for their volunteer work four a wide variety of organizations.

The Kansas City division of the March of Dimes recently announced that Mark Ernst, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors at H&R Block Inc., will serve as the chairperson of WalkAmerica 2003.

Gov. Bob Holden has named R. Crosby Kemper III, chairman and CEO of UMB Financial Corporation in Kansas City, as chairman of the newly created Commission on the Future of Higher Education. Kansas City area members of the Commission include ...

Even though it was a one-time happening, a man who struck his wife still committed an act of domestic violence, and a court must making a finding regarding that act when determining physical custody of a child, according to the ...