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Several U.S. Supreme Court justices, considering new limits on student speech rights, characterized a high school senior’s display of a “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” banner as a stunt that promoted illicit drug use. During a one-hour argument session Monday in ...

A day after students in St. Louis expressed themselves by concluding a sit-in at St. Louis City Hall, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in a case that could set a new standard in how free students are ...

Kenneth Baumruk again has been sentenced to death for the 1992 rampage in a St. Louis County courtroom where he shot and killed his wife and wounded four others. Judge Lucy D. Rauch pronounced the sentence Monday. A jury had ...

Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, second in command at the Justice Department, may face a test of his own credibility over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, documents show. McNulty suggested in testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee last month ...

Joseph Nacchio, center, former chief executive officer of Qwest Communications International, arrives at federal court Monday with members of his legal team, including attorney Jeffrey Speiser, second from the left, in Denver. Nacchio, 57, is charged in a 42-count indictment ...

Phil Spector, the music producer who went on trial for murder Monday, will be acquitted because the death was accidental and prosecutors won’t be able to establish a motive, his attorney said. “There is no motive, there’s no intent, there’s ...

Man seeks $500 million, abolishment of Missouri Bar In a lawsuit against Missouri, a Kansas City man accused The Missouri Bar of carrying out a criminal plot against the U.S. Constitution. The plaintiff, Denny R. Hardin, called for the abolishment ...

Radler settlement delays Black trial: Conrad Black, former Hollinger International chief executive officer, enters Federal Court following a recess in opening statements Monday at the start of his trial in Chicago. The start of Black’s fraud trial was delayed after ...

A day after St. Louis students expressed themselves by concluding a sit-in at St. Louis City Hall, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in a case that could set a new standard in how free students are to ...

Bob Lynch spent 25 years at the top of the legal food chain in one of America’s largest telecommunications companies, breathing the “rarified atmosphere” of the corporate boardroom. Now he’s one of a handful of lawyers in a tiny practice, ...

Kenneth Baumruk has again been sentenced to death for the 1992 rampage in a St. Louis County courtroom where he shot and killed his wife and wounded four others. Judge Lucy D. Rauch pronounced the sentence Monday. It had been ...