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A suburban Kansas City attorney has been found not guilty of killing her millionaire father and his girlfriend in a vicious attack at their Missouri lake house that prosecutors said was fueled by jealousy, even though jurors said they doubted ...

Legally speaking, is a defective apartment any different from a defective fridge? That odd question was at the center of a debate on Wednesday in which a rent dispute, a proceeding that usually progresses quickly at the lowest rungs of ...

The Court of Appeals Eastern District says an insurer is on the hook for a multi-million dollar judgment against a school bus driver who was charged criminally after fatally running over a 6-year-old boy. Although the driver, Willie Leonberger, pleaded ...

The city of Ferguson has dropped its appeal of a federal jury’s $3 million award to survivors of a naked, unarmed, black man who died after a police officer repeatedly shocked him with a stun gun and will pay the ...

A chemist for Kansas City’s Water Services department won a partial victory in her suit against the city, receiving a $150,000 jury verdict on her claim of a sexually hostile work environment. The verdict followed nearly four hours of deliberations ...

Allegations that Kansas City’s Water Department regularly promoted less-qualified white employees at the expense of black workers, and was a hostile work environment were at the center of a trial that started this week in Kansas City. The plaintiff, LaDonna ...

Patrick W. Peters, a well-known criminal defense lawyer in Kansas City whose work challenged the prosecutor’s office he once sought to lead, died Saturday. Peters, 62, died of meningitis he contracted in November after conducting depositions for a case in ...

Quick quiz: Recall a phrase, any phrase, from either inaugural speech of one of America’s most accomplished political orators, President Barack Obama. Come up empty? Sad! Fact is, inaugural speeches are usually not the finest hours in speechmaking, with some ...

When Goodwin Liu joined the seven-member California Supreme Court in 2011, he became its fourth sitting member of Asian descent. The number is remarkable. The other state supreme courts in the U.S. combined have a handful of Asian-American justices. And ...

The second largest plaintiff’s verdict of 2015 was cut from $433.7 million to just under $188 million Tuesday by a Missouri appeals court. The Western District Court of Appeals found that new hospital construction in Lee’s Summit and Independence counted ...

The Raymore-Peculiar School District has agreed to a $320,000 settlement of a lawsuit alleging that the district failed to follow its policy after a student’s sexual assault on a school bus and bullying by other students. The district disclosed the ...