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All U.S. blood donations should be screened for Chagas disease, a parasite that can cause lethal heart and intestinal disease, with tests made by Johnson & Johnson, an American Red Cross researcher said this week. The insect-borne disease can be ...

Retention efforts drive pay scale Average starting salaries for legal professionals are expected to rise 4.2 percent, according to a national legal staffing firm. The largest increase is expected for first-year associates at large law firms and lawyers with up ...

After no debate, the Kansas City Council unanimously passed an amended background-check ordinance for judicial applicants at the Municipal Court, settling a long-running feud about the way new judges should be selected. Its approval on Thursday moves the court closer ...

Helmerich & Payne Inc. agreed to pay $290,000 to settle a suit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of black workers exposed to nooses hung on the drilling contractor’s oil rigs. The company, based in Tulsa, Okla., ...

First Franklin can pay $3.4 million to settle overtime lawsuit First Franklin Financial Corp., the subprime lender acquired by Merrill Lynch & Co. last year, won permission to pay $3.4 million to settle a lawsuit filed in Kansas City, Kan., ...

BP Plc agreed to pay $373 million to resolve a lawsuit and investigation into a fatal refinery explosion, as Europe’s second-largest oil company tries to recover from lapses that dented its share price and image. BP will pay a record ...

Princeton loses motion in legal fight with donors Princeton University lost a key claim in its legal fight with a family seeking to recover about $880 million from the school’s endowment in a disagreement over how the money is used. ...

Missouri Plan, municipal court nominations face controversy for different reasons

President George W. Bush will let some Senate Judiciary Committee members see legal memos about his terrorist surveillance program before the panel votes on shielding telephone companies that cooperated with the government from privacy suits. Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont ...

Bryan Cave, the St. Louis-based law firm of more than 800 lawyers, hired patent attorney Eileen Ebel from Pfizer Inc., where she was senior corporate counsel in the pharmaceuticals division. Ebel, 44, will work in the intellectual-property practice of Bryan ...

Men arrive at the Atlas Reserve Temp office at 2012 Olive on Thursday morning at 5:30 a.m. in hopes of finding work for the day. “I’m living day by day, trying to find work,” the man on the right, who ...