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Bloomberg News Altria Group, the biggest U.S. cigarette maker, must pay $8 million to the family of a smoker who died of lung cancer, a Florida jury ruled in the first of 8,000 individual cases to go to trial in ...

In Arizona v. Johnson, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed the issue of whether police officers who perform a lawful traffic stop have the authority to frisk the vehicle’s passengers. The facts in Johnson are not complicated: The defendant was the ...

For two centuries, Wall Street survived wars, depressions, bank panics and terrorist attacks. Now Wall Street as we know it is dead. Gone. When a healthy and thriving person dies suddenly, a medical examiner may talk to family and friends ...

Hulshof responds to judges’ criticism of his prosecution Inmate Joshua Kezer walked out of the Jefferson City Correctional Center on Wednesday, just a day after he was exonerated for the 1992 murder of a southeast Missouri woman, Mischelle Lawless. On ...

Lawrence J. Fleming, of Herzog Crebs, argues before the Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday that certain statements should not have been allowed into a meth prosecution because they were hearsay. His law clerk, Brian Wacker, listens at left. Photo by ...

John Wood, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced his resignation Wednesday afternoon. Wood, who has been at the post less than two years, has accepted a position as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of ...

Kelly Caine, the father of a girl who died in a December 2006 house fire in Bates County, declined Tuesday to agree to a settlement proposed before a hearing at the Jackson County Court Annex in Independence. Caine drove all ...

Bloomberg News U.S. President Barack Obama pledged $275 billion to a program that includes cutting mortgage payments for as many as 9 million struggling homeowners and expanding the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in curbing foreclosures. The plan ...

A U.S. appeals court overturned a judge’s order that the government bring 17 ethnic Chinese Muslims held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison camp to the U.S. and release them. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ...

The Appellate Judicial Commission has suspended the process to fill Judge Booker T. Shaw’s vacancy on the Eastern District Court of Appeals until at least late summer because of scheduling conflicts with filling the three vacancies on the Western District ...

My guess is that a large number of out-of-work Americans wouldn’t mind having their own office with secretarial help, even if they have no actual job to do there. For those in foreclosure, those laid-off, they could get some rest ...