Through his death in a gun battle with police, the Orlando nightclub gunman deprived his victims’ families of the chance for a trial that could have helped to channel grief, offer a sense of justice or provide answers for the ...
Read More »White House clears small, commercial drones for takeoff
Routine commercial use of small drones was cleared for takeoff by the Obama administration Tuesday, after years of struggling to write rules that would both protect public safety and free the benefits of a new technology. The Federal Aviation Administration ...
Read More »Lawsuit: Baylor fostered ‘hunting ground’ for sexual assault
A federal lawsuit filed Monday against Baylor University accuses the nation’s largest Baptist school of creating a “hunting ground for sexual predators.” The lawsuit, brought by a former Baylor student, is the third in recent months to claim the school ...
Read More »High court upholds process for challenging patents
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the process for challenging invalid patents, making it easier for companies to fight so-called patent trolls. The justices were unanimous in backing the legal standard used to cancel patents by a new appeals board ...
Read More »High court considers appointment of labor board official
The Supreme Court will consider whether a former top lawyer at the National Labor Relations Board served in violation of a federal law governing temporary appointments. The justices agreed Monday to review a lower court ruling that said Lafe Solomon should ...
Read More »Juvenile lifers await chance for parole after US ruling
It’s been six months since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that some 2,500 “juvenile lifers” could seek a chance at parole for their childhood crimes, but only a few aging inmates have walked out of prison. Public defenders fear many will ...
Read More »First GOP ads for Missouri governor hopefuls hit airwaves
Missouri’s Republican candidates for governor have started rolling out their first campaign ads in advance of the Aug. 2 primary, wielding rifles and posing at farms in what one political scientist described as an attempt to “out-conservative each other.” The ...
Read More »Missouri judge fines Walgreens $309,000 in pricing case
A judge on Friday ordered Walgreens to pay $309,000 for violating an agreement between the drugstore chain and the state of Missouri over allegedly deceptive pricing, the state’s attorney general said. A Jackson County judge assessed a $1,000 penalty for ...
Read More »Prosecutors drop drug trafficking case against FedEx
A criminal trial nearly two years in the making alleging FedEx knowingly delivered illegal prescription drugs to dealers and addicts ended suddenly Friday when prosecutors moved to dismiss all charges against the shipping giant. U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer ...
Read More »Led Zeppelin’s Page dodges court questions, riffs air guitar
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page demonstrated a deft touch at deflecting questions aimed at showing he might have lifted a passage for the introduction to the 1971 hit “Stairway to Heaven.” Testifying in his defense Thursday in a copyright infringement ...
Read More »Freedom denied for Missouri man convicted in woman’s killing
A Missouri judge has refused to grant freedom to a man convicted of sexually attacking and killing a St. Louis woman more than three decades ago. Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green on Thursday ruled there was not enough evidence ...
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