China raised the pressure on the United States and Canada as a bail hearing for a top Chinese technology executive was set to resume Monday in Vancouver, British Columbia. A headline in a Communist Party newspaper called Canada’s treatment of ...
Read More »Trump looking at several candidates for chief of staff
President Donald Trump is considering at least four people to serve as his next chief of staff, after plans for an orderly succession for departing John Kelly fell through. The high-profile hiring search comes at a pivotal time as the ...
Read More »Faculty worry buyout program could gut some departments
University of Missouri faculty members are raising concerns that the system’s move to offer buyouts to its senior professors could leave some academic departments gutted. The university system recently notified full-time and tenured faculty members over 62 of an option ...
Read More »Panel refuses to separate baby cases from other opioid suits
A panel of judges says lawsuits filed on behalf of babies born in withdrawal from opioids should be considered by the same judge who is presiding in hundreds of claims from local governments against the drug industry. The Judicial Panel ...
Read More »Marlboro maker places $2.4 billion bet on marijuana
One of the world’s biggest tobacco companies is diving into the cannabis market with a $2.4 billion buy-in. Marlboro-maker Altria Group Inc. is taking a 45 percent stake in Cronos Group, the Canadian medical and recreational marijuana provider said Friday. ...
Read More »Letters from law firm outline Bush’s business acumen
Never-before published personal correspondence from George H.W. Bush in the archives of Houston law firm Baker Botts capture a period in the late president’s life that is often overshadowed by his political accomplishments: his career as an entrepreneur who helped ...
Read More »Death becomes her: Women make inroads in funeral industry
A training program for the next generation of morticians and undertakers is testament to a change that is slowly remaking the funeral business. Sixty of the 75 students in the program at the State University of New York Canton are ...
Read More »At a cemetery, bones tossed like trash, and families in pain
Since the 1990s, Cheryl Jansen had noticed junk and tree limbs piling up at the once oasis-like Park Cemetery, just north of downtown Bridgeport, Connecticut, and wondered where the money families had paid for perpetual upkeep was going. What she ...
Read More »Judge approves DeBrodie settlement in wrongful death suit
A judge has approved the settlement of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of a developmentally disabled central Missouri man whose body was found encased in concrete. Financial details of the settlement between Carolyn Summers, the mother of ...
Read More »Family, city settle hidden-evidence claims in Stockley case
The daughter of a black man fatally shot by a white St. Louis police officer will be paid an additional $500,000 to settle claims that attorneys for city and Missouri officials hid evidence in an earlier civil case. Attorneys for ...
Read More »GOP’s Hawley spent $11M on successful Senate bid
Republican Josh Hawley’s campaign spent about $11 million to successfully unseat Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill despite the Democratic incumbent’s significant financial advantage during their marquee U.S. Senate race, according to campaign finance reports released Thursday. A month after the key ...
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