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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testifies Thursday at a House Judiciary Committee hearing. House Democrats investigating the firing of eight U.S. attorneys made little headway in questioning Gonzales about why individual prosecutors were selected for dismissal. Photo by Carol T. Powers/Bloomberg ...

A vicious attack at a Kansas City high school less than two years ago changed the life of Craig Dydell. After a fellow student slit his neck with a box cutter, nearly taking his life, Dydell was too afraid return ...

The Kansas City Legal Secretaries Association announced the appointment of its 2007 board of directors on April 11. Members of the new board are law firm legal support professionals, consultants and vendors from the Kansas City legal community. KCLSA comprises ...

Vonage says it may have way around disputed patents Vonage Holdings Corp. said it may have technology that could rescue its Internet-phone service after a jury found the company infringed patents that allow customers to call standard telephones. “We will ...

Todd Graves left his post as U.S. attorney for Western Missouri because he felt he was not “part of the team” and not because of a controversy over the state’s license fee office, he said in an interview with The ...

Meaning of Powel decision debated

St. Peters resident Brian Buehrle was sentenced to 88 months in prison for possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Catherine L. Hanaway announced Thursday. On June 26, 2006, officers from the St. Charles County Sheriff’s Department deployed a program that ...

Meaning of Powel decision debated

William Sorin, Comverse Technology’s former general counsel, arrives Thursday at federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y. Sorin, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for participating in a stock-option backdating scheme with former Chief Executive Officer Jacob “Kobi” ...

NovaStar Financial Inc., the Kansas City, Missouri-based subprime lender that is seeking a buyer, denied mortgages to minorities for row houses and on tribal reservations, according to a civil rights group’s lawsuit. The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), based in ...

Brooklyn Law School professor Wendy Seltzer wanted to teach her copyright class a lesson by showing them what a copyright notice looks like. So she posted a 30-second clip from the 2007 Super Bowl containing the National Football League’s copyright ...