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State Rep. Ralph Monaco set aside his legal, political and fatherly duties Wednesday to step back in time and share another role he plays in life. “Hello, I’m Col. Thomas Hutton Swope,” he said. “Deceased.” As a historian, Monaco is ...

So many issues are put on the ballots each year, yet so few members of the public fully understand what impact these issues will have on their lives. One such issue seen each year is, “Shall Judge (insert name here) ...

An inmate at the Iowa State Penitentiary has yet to see the end of his grievance against the ISP for disallowing him to participating in Jewish services and holidays, after fighting for his constitutional rights for six years. The issue ...

Some are concerned that a court’s decision to reopen the bidding process of a Farmland Industries, Inc. warehouse will cause future bidders to lose confidence in the bidding process. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Missouri disagreed ...

On its third trip to the appellate court, McReynolds v. Mindrup has seen yet another remand from the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District. This time on the grounds that two of Dr. Dixie Cranmer McReynolds’ expert witnesses ...

Though a man was employed by a motel merely as a groundskeeper, a contractor had reason to believe the man had authority to make decisions concerning the property given previous conversations including the owner. Helm Plumbing and Electrical Contractors Inc. ...

A man’s guilty plea should have been set aside by the Circuit Court of Daviess County, because the court did not have enough evidence to prove he intended to kill a woman. Brent England, along with three others including Joseph ...

A woman who induced others to pay into a pyramid sales scheme is now finding herself owing twice what she asked the others to pay. According to Section 407.410 RSMo. 2000, anyone who “induces or causes another person to participate ...

The Missouri Supreme Court found a Kansas City doctor is exempt from Workers’ Compensation laws, because he was a third party consultant in the case of an injured nurse. Dr. Michael Poppa evaluated Rhonda James, a nurse at Heartland Hospital ...

Despite his claim that the homeowners he was working for refused to let him complete his project, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Southern District found the contractor instead abandoned the project, and owes the homeowners the costs they ...

For years Kansas City attorneys have strived to better their communities, making the legal profession unique in the metro area. Though often recognized for their efforts among their peers, the many community service projects sponsored by the Kansas City Metropolitan ...