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Two former officers of the Velda City Police Department were sentenced Friday to federal prison for conspiring to violate the civil rights of a jailed man. Mark Winger, a former detective, and Lewis McGee, a former sergeant, each received 12 ...

U.S. Senior District Court Judge Dean Whipple may not throw gavels, but he has been known to curse like a sailor.

Missouri plaintiffs alleging intentional infliction of emotional distress do not have to prove medical damages, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said this week. The decision was the 8th Circuit’s interpretation of what the Missouri Supreme Court would say ...

Different versions of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Vista software sit on a store shelf at a Best Buy store in Columbus, Ohio, Wednesday, June 20, 2007. Microsoft Corp. agreed to change the Vista operating system after Google Inc. complained the software ...

When Alan Greenspan, Tony Blair and Karl Rove decided it was time to write a memoir, each turned to the same broker: Robert Barnett, one of the most powerful players in book publishing, though he operates well outside the New ...

California and five other states disagree with U.S. antitrust regulators over whether court oversight of Microsoft Corp. has improved competition for personal computer software and provided more consumer choices. California and the other states told a federal judge overseeing Microsoft ...

A federal judge on Friday granted a St. Louis-based private abortion provider the right to intervene in Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit against new state requirements for abortion clinics, the doctor’s lawyer said. At the same time, Judge Ortrie D. Smith granted ...

An UMSL student detained in Russia is free to return to St. Louis. Roxana Contreras’ trial concluded Friday with Russian prosecutors dropping charges that the student was trying to smuggle old medals and coins out of the country. The judge, ...

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A federal judge sentenced a Blue Island, Ill., man to 30 months in prison for distributing thousands of copyrighted movies, music files, software files and video games over the Internet, prosecutors said Friday. Eli El, sentenced by Judge Ellen B. ...