Hyundai Mobis Chairman and President Park Jung-In speaks during the opening ceremony of the new distribution center in Asan, South Korea, in 2005. Exxon Mobil Corp., the world
Read More »Legal effect of red-light cameras awaits implementation
Defense attorneys in Kansas City have concerns and questions about red-light cameras soon to be installed on city streets. Using the cameras to capture violators seems to put the burden of proof on the defendant, instead of on the city, ...
Read More »Senate advances bill for public defense fund
A bill designed to help the Missouri Public Defender’s Office hire private attorneys to take on some of its caseload burden is finally moving in the Senate, almost two months after the solution was first proposed. Even if the bill ...
Read More »Plan would change retention power
The power to retain nonpartisan judges in office would shift from the voters to the Legislature under a proposed constitutional amendment in the Missouri House. Rep. Steve Hunter, R-Joplin, said Thursday that he planned to file a resolution in which ...
Read More »Jenkens firm to close in U.S. agreement over tax shelter sales
Jenkens & Gilchrist, a Dallas-based law firm, is shutting down after reaching a nonprosecution agreement with U.S. authorities for selling tax shelters that generated more than $1 billion in phony losses. The law firm, which once had more than 600 ...
Read More »State and Region Briefs
Taxi driver sentenced to three years for money transfers A 43-year-old Kansas City man pleaded guilty and was sentenced in U.S. District Court Wednesday to three years and five months in prison for operating an unlicensed money transfer business that ...
Read More »Plan would place judges’ fate in lawmakers’ hands
The power to retain non-partisan judges in office would shift from the voters to the Legislature under a proposed constitutional amendment in the Missouri House. Rep. Steve Hunter, R-Joplin, said Thursday that he plans to file a resolution in which ...
Read More »Gateway to a Cure manager indicted in alleged raffle scam
Carl Sengheiser was indicted on fraud charges in connection with four allegedly fraudulent raffles generating receipts of $1.9 million, U.S. Attorney Catherine L. Hanaway announced Thursday. “People bought these raffle tickets in good faith, thinking they had a chance at ...
Read More »St. Louis stalls on issuing Photo Cop tickets (5103)
Some attorneys will fight red-light citations
Read More »Plan would place judges’ fate in lawmakers’ hands
The power to retain non-partisan judges in office would shift from the voters to the Legislature under a proposed constitutional amendment in the Missouri House. Rep. Steve Hunter, R-Joplin, said Thursday that he plans to file a resolution in which ...
Read More »Ex-aide disputes Gonzales involvement in eight firings
Kyle Sampson, former chief of staff to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Sampson said Gonzales’ statement that the attorney general wasn’t involved in discussions on the firings of eight U.S. attorneys was ...
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