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Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick apologized to fans, his team and National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell after pleading guilty to a federal charge that he plotted to run an interstate dogfighting ring. Vick called dogfighting “a terrible thing” in ...

The executive director of the Louisiana Recovery Authority is blasting the federal government for not giving Louisiana a larger share of $85 million designed to help the Gulf Coast fishing industry recover from the 2005 hurricanes. Under a proposed spending ...

A law placing further restrictions on abortion is among significant new measures taking effect Tuesday, and it’s already being challenged in court. The Missouri Legislature passed, and Gov. Matt Blunt signed, a bill placing more regulations on abortion providers and ...

A host of bills takes effect Tuesday – nearly 100 in all – including several notable to the legal community. Among them are two new laws expanding legal rights of gun owners. The first is touted by supporters as the ...

A Kindred Hospital doctor was not responsible for a man’s death allegedly caused by an injection of Versed, a Jackson County jury determined. The jury took about three hours to reach the verdict in favor of Dr. Michael Wilkins on ...

Charitable work becoming a more important measure

A national staffing agency claims a Lemay radiology group owes it more than $1 million for placing 20 physicians with the group since early 2006. The radiology group, Visionary Imaging, in turn provided the physicians to community hospitals to meet ...

Departure will follow that of other officials, including K.C. attorney

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission must reconsider its denial of refunds to wholesale customers of Powerex Corp. and other electric companies in the Pacific Northwest during the 2000-2001 California energy crisis. The FERC must review rejected claims by cities including ...

Executives of Earth Biofuels Inc., the builder of biodiesel plants producing a fuel named for country music singer Willie Nelson, must face questions from three investors who helped force the company into bankruptcy. Chief Executive Officer Dennis G. McLaughlin III ...

The National Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club have asked federal regulators to scrap a permit granted to ConocoPhillips for a $3.9 billion expansion of its oil refinery east of St. Louis. The environmental groups said the permit fails ...