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Merck & Co. was motivated by money when it disregarded studies during the development of its Vioxx painkiller showing the drug increased risk for heart attacks, a lawyer for a former soccer player told jurors Friday in Florida. The company ...

Three former Duke University lacrosse players, falsely accused of rape in a racially charged case that ultimately cost a district attorney his law license, sued the former prosecutor and the city of Durham, N.C. The players on Friday accused ex-District ...

A Chicago law professor took the U.S. Supreme Court to task for failing to learn the lessons of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision when in the last term it struck down two voluntary school desegregation plans. David ...

St. Louis attorney sentenced to prison A federal judge has sentenced St. Louis criminal defense attorney Frank Fabbri to18 months in prison for accepting a $36,000 cash payment from the proceeds of a client’s drug ring. Nearly two dozen attorneys, ...

In the wake of recent incidents of questionable judgment by law enforcement, some in Missouri are taking another look at how police officers in the state learn what they need to know. In the tiny south St. Louis County town ...

Accused kidnapper faces charges in four jurisdictions

A Chicago law professor took the U.S. Supreme Court to task for failing to learn the lessons of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision when in the last term it struck down two voluntary school desegregation plans. David ...

Frank Fabbri skimmed from drug-running client

Santo Salafia, 71, an Italian immigrant and retired laborer in Middletown, Conn., had lived frugally and never gambled in his entire life. But in April 2002, shortly after he began taking the drug Mirapex to control his Parkinson’s disease, he ...

Washington, never short on drama, is giving William Shakespeare a grander stage. With fanfare fit for new presidents and an audience of bold- faced supporters that included actor Sam Waterston, Chelsea Clinton, the Duchess of Gloucester and two of the ...

C. Justin Brown was about to go to bed in his room in the five-star Hyatt Regency in Belgrade in April 1999 when he heard a “whistling sound” just outside his window. Looking outside, he saw a NATO Tomahawk missile ...