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Adapting to change is a hallmark of the people in America’s Heartland. Changes in technology and markets led to new techniques and products. Trading posts became towns, and towns became great cities. And the Missouri River changed from a thing ...

“There’s a little bit of larceny in all of us,” attorney David Capes suggests as a reason for the proliferation of tax fraud cases. “It all started with the Capone case.” Capes says often the laws make it legal for ...

The Missouri Supreme Court said a denial of a couple’s adoption subsidy by the state Department of Social Services’ Family Support Division is not valid because the division’s decision was not based on formal rules and regulations. The court determined ...

The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners had the authority to fire a police officer who beat and spit on a drunken driver who was already subdued, a unanimous Missouri Supreme Court said Tuesday. The officer, Timothy Coffer, has been ...

A man convicted of incestuous sex crimes could get a new trial — if the Missouri Supreme Court agrees with a state appellate court that the defendant is mentally retarded and unable to assist in his own defense. The case ...

In Do the Right Thing, Boston-based consultant Gretchen Neels offers advice on professional etiquette and other behavioral issues that might arise in a law practice. Q. As a woman attorney, I get mixed messages about showing emotion. Show too little, ...

President Barack Obama nominated David Hamilton, an Indiana federal district judge with bipartisan support, for a U.S. appeals court seat in the new ad-ministration’s first judicial appointment. Hamilton, 51, a former aide to then-Gov. Evan Bayh of Indiana, is a ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had surgery last month for pancreatic cancer, said she will undergo a “precautionary” course of chemotherapy. The 76-year-old Ginsburg, who hasn’t missed any of the court’s public sessions, said she doesn’t expect ...

Merck & Co. need not defend a lawsuit in which the company is accused of defrauding millions of users of its painkiller Vioxx, a New Jersey judge ruled, dealing a “death knell” to class-action claims by consumers. Consumers who sued ...

The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners had the authority to fire a police officer who beat and spit on a drunken driver who was already subdued, a unanimous Missouri Supreme Court said Tuesday. The officer, Timothy Coffer, has been ...

Sex offender had 10 days to file address The Missouri Supreme Court rejected a challenge from a sex offender who incurred a prison sentence when he did not register a change of address notice within 10 days. The Supreme Court ...