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An American trucker barreling down Interstate 70 bemoaning the high price of diesel fuel might never imagine that one of the things driving up his bill is the way water in China is being mispriced. But the truth is, water shortages are indirectly causing increased use of diesel generators for electricity in China, and that, in turn, is helping raise diesel prices in the U.S.

As a boy growing up in Lincoln County, Nick Lindsay recalls taking a keen interest in the veterinarians who came to his parents’ farm. Not content with merely watching them tend to the livestock, he would assist where he could, anything that a young kid could do. But mostly he watched and he wondered what it might be like, being an animal doctor.

Many attorneys and law firm marketers have sounded alarms that the American Bar Association’s Commission on Ethics 20/20 is examining legal ethics issues arising from lawyers’ use of Internet-based client development tools.

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President Barack Obama this week named Donald Verrilli, deputy White House counsel, as his pick for the next solicitor general. That post has been filled on an interim basis by Justice Department attorney Neal Katyal since former Solicitor General Elena ...

President Barack Obama’s announcement that he would require federal agencies to review regulations on their books and remove those that “stifle job creation and make our economy less competitive” made me wonder.

Did you know John Marshall, the former Supreme Court chief justice, kept a whoopee cushion under his desk for “special occasions”? Or that early 20th century Justice Rufus Peckham would occasionally appear on the bench as his alter ego, Doofus Peckham, complete with cockney accent?

Jared Lee Loughner, bald and wearing a taunting smile in his mug shot, is likely now to find himself at a shifting juncture of U.S. law.

I tend to think of myself as a person. I’d hazard a guess that most, maybe all, American women consider themselves to be actual human beings, too.

I got to drive around Hannibal for a few minutes the Wednesday after Christmas looking for a food option that might actually have a vegetable that wasn’t deep fried.

Those of us on the Warner Bros. side of the Great Divide are feeling more than a little smug today with the news that Donald Duck will be facing trial for allegedly groping a female customer at a Disney theme park.

It turns out that random workplace alcohol testing is a form of illegal discrimination under federal law, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.