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Three airline pilots at or near the mandatory retirement age of 60 asked a court to order Marion Blakey, head of the Federal Aviation Administration, to rule on their requests to keep flying. The pilots filed their request Thursday with ...

Southwest, Boeing settle suit filed in Chicago crash Southwest Airlines Co. and Boeing Co. settled a lawsuit by the family of a 6-year-old boy killed when one of Southwest’s planes ran off the end of a Chicago runway and struck ...

Several St. Louis Circuit Court judges are alarmed by how few criminal cases have been processed by the courts since the beginning of the year, a situation blamed in part on the city’s new individual docketing system. At this time ...

K.C. man charged with aiding murder suspect Henderson A 21-year-old Kansas City man who led police to a woman listed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, was charged in U.S. District Court on Tuesday for harboring the woman ...

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The U.S. Postal Service and the Dred Scott Foundation have joined forces to recognize the 150th Anniversary of the Dred Scott decision with commemorative envelopes and postal cancellations. A new commemorative Dred Scott postal cachet, right, was unveiled at ceremonies ...

Betty Joanne McWilliams, 59, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, on charges of bilking Social Security out of $133,000 after burning her husband’s body to hide his death from ...

James Knight, 58, was sentenced to 151 months in prison on multiple fraud charges for stealing more than $4.4 million dollars from more than 50 victims, U.S. Attorney Catherine L. Hanaway announced Tuesday. Knight was also ordered to pay $4,472,630 ...

Lathrop & Gage’s long-term chief executive Tom Stewart will step down June 1 to take over as chairman. The job of chairman, until now an honorary title, will become a more active one, said Raymond Beagle Jr., who has been ...

Charges filed against man for sodomy, rape of 4-year-old Jackson County prosecutors charged William L. Pennell, 23, with first-degree statutory sodomy and first-degree rape Monday in connection with a sexual assault of 4-year-old girl. The victim’s great-grandmother took the child ...

Hunton & Williams, a law firm based in Richmond, Va., said it hired 93 attorneys from a rival that shut down last week after admitting to tax fraud. The new hires worked at Jenkens & Gilchrist, a Dallas-based firm that ...