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Hotel official pleads guilty, fined for clean-air violations Dan Hulsing, of Hulsing Hotels, the company that manages the Clarion Hotel, pleaded guilty in federal court Monday and was sentenced for violating federal standards for removing asbestos material during renovation. Hulsing ...

Ex-U.S. Attorney in San Francisco likely to return Joseph P. Russoniello, the U.S. attorney in San Francisco under President Ronald Reagan, is almost certain to be nominated again for the job, the Daily Journal reported on its Web site. The ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether patients injured by faulty medical devices can pursue product-liability claims against the device manufacturers. A decision would affect numerous lawsuits against Minneapolis-based Medtronic, including one filed last year in U.S. District ...

The constitutionality of executing prisoners by lethal injection has been challenged nationwide. On Monday, local attorneys will join the chorus when they plan to ask the full 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to hear arguments in the case of ...

Two lawsuits against McDonald’s franchises in southwest Missouri will not be tried in Jackson County, the Missouri Supreme Court said Tuesday, because restaurant franchisees aren’t agents for the “usual and customary business” of parent company McDonald’s Corp. The 5-2 decision ...

The Missouri Department of Social Services’ method for changing child support amounts does not violate state law, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. For attorney and parent Sherrie Hansen, the decision means a yearlong battle to stop the state agency ...

At first glance, it might appear that Kansas City osteopath William T. Brown won one case and lost another at the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday. In reality, Harris must be smiling today because the net result is that a ...

A Waynesville man is suing Fort Leonard Wood for firing him last year because he couldn’t provide vaccination records, which he didn’t have because it’s against his religious beliefs. Todd Campbell, representing himself, said he started June 1, 2006, as ...

Defense objected to prosecutor’s comments

Granite Broadcasting Corp.’s bankruptcy judge denied a $450,000 bonus for Chief Executive Officer Don Cornwell and said that, if asked again, he would reconsider his earlier approval of the company’s reorganization. “If you want to open up the entire confirmation ...

Hollinger International Inc. ex-Chairman Conrad Black’s “moment of truth” came when he paid himself not to compete with himself, a prosecutor in Black’s fraud and racketeering trial told jurors Tuesday. “There’s a moment of truth in this story for every ...