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Man charged in weekend assault on police officer A Kansas City man faces charges that he used his sport utility vehicle in an attempt to hit a police officer. Jackson County prosecutors charged Gerome K. King, 26, with first-degree assault ...

Group wants to intervene in EPA action

Three Missouri-based law firms are among the nation’s 50 best for female attorneys, according to a study published in Working Mother magazine. Making the cut were Blackwell Sanders, Armstrong Teasdale and Bryan Cave, which each has offices in Kansas City ...

Attorneys in a bad-faith case against Allstate Insurance Co. are again requesting documents that the insurer has failed to hand over. The filing made last week by Springfield, Mo., attorney Steve Garner was the ninth request for Allstate to produce ...

Hurricane Katrina turned Aug. 29 into a red-letter date in New Orleans history, but storm victims should circle Aug. 28 on their calendars. That date — and not the Katrina anniversary — is the deadline to file suit against insurers ...

Google Inc.’s YouTube unit is looking for a different kind of Colbert Report in defending itself against Viacom Inc., which is suing YouTube for carrying video clips of the comedian’s show and thousands of other items without permission. YouTube wants ...

1-800 Contacts Inc., a money-losing retailer of contact lenses, sued Lens.com Inc. for using its trademark to generate competing online advertisements in the latest suit over Google Inc.’s AdWords program. Lens.com, based in Louisiana, Mo., pays Google to generate so-called ...

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, together with a creditors’ committee, are asking a bankruptcy court to extend the exclusive right of the diocese to file a reorganization plan until Oct. 1. The diocese and the committee, representing sexual ...

Aegis Mortgage Corp., a Houston-based subprime lender that was the country’s 13th largest last year, filed a Chapter 11 petition Monday along with 10 affiliates. The petition in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware listed assets and debt both exceeding $100 ...

Attorneys in a bad-faith case against Allstate Insurance Co. are again requesting documents that the insurer has failed to hand over. The filing made last week by Springfield attorney Steve Garner was the ninth request for Allstate to produce documents ...

Qualcomm’s general counsel resigns; Lam takes over Qualcomm, the mobile-phone chipmaker embroiled in patent lawsuits with Broadcom Corp., announced the resignation of General Counsel Lou Lupin after three setbacks in the disputes last week. Carol Lam will replace him until ...