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Construction companies, which won an exemption from a Clinton administration rule protecting workers from heavy lifting and other repetitive-motion injuries, are trying to kill off a new voluntary industry standard. Five trade groups representing U.S. residential and commercial builders filed ...

Solutia Inc., the bankrupt maker of nylon and plastics, received court approval for $2 billion in financing that will fund its exit from court protection. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Prudence Carter Beatty approved the loan for the Town & Country-based company. ...

Pierce Daniel Smith, an instructor at Bull’s Eye indoor shooting range in St. Louis, shoots his handgun as part of his daily practice routine. The U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it would hear arguments in what could be a ...

Gregory Kays faces slow-moving confirmation process in Senate One Lebanon, Mo., judge is in line to replace another at the federal court in Kansas City. President George W. Bush last week nominated Judge Gregory Kays of the 26th Judicial Circuit ...

Federal judge considers whether to advance suit over illegal worker measure Plaintiffs in the Valley Park immigration dispute fought Monday to keep their case alive, arguing against the city’s motion to dismiss their lawsuit. Lawyers for Jacqueline Gray, a business ...

The number of hate crimes in the U.S. last year rose almost 8 percent, a new Federal Bureau of Investigation study found. In 2006 there were 7,722 crimes attributed to bias against the victim’s race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity or ...

KC man sentenced for Baywatch fraud A Kansas City man was sentenced in federal court Monday for a fraud scheme in which he tried to sell foreign rights to the television program Baywatch. David William Port, 53, was sentenced to ...

Metro East attorney Gary Peel was sentenced Monday to 12 years in prison for bankruptcy fraud and possession of child pornography — the latter charge stemming from photos he took of his teenage sister-in-law in 1974. The photos came to ...

Plaintiffs in the Valley Park immigration dispute fought Monday to keep their case alive, arguing against the city’s motion to dismiss their lawsuit. Lawyers for Jacqueline Gray, a business owner in Valley Park, told a federal judge that penalties under ...

Attorneys are close to an agreement in the case against a woman accused of drinking so much she caused her newborn’s death. Sherri Lohnstein’s attorney, public defender Richard Scheibe, said outside a St. Charles Circuit courtroom Monday that he was ...

Title company defense attorneys Paul Snyder, left, and Robert Jones greet each other outside a Jackson County courtroom Friday. A judge dismissed the companies from a lawsuit alleging loan flipping and bad refinancing deals for clients. Photo by Scott Lauck ...