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The Missouri Public Defender Commission on Friday backed off a plan to close the state public defender’s office to new cases, saying it wanted to give the state Legislature more time to solve the system’s caseload crisis. Although several members ...

A suspicious package prompted the evacuation of the Jackson County Courthouse Annex in Independence Friday afternoon. According to a spokeswoman for the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, the package was addressed directly to a county judge. Kelley Carpenter, the court’s public ...

Lorenzo Gilyard continues to claim his innocence. And beginning today the man accused of being one of Missouri’s worst serial killers will attempt to disprove significant DNA evidence against him. Gilyard takes the courtroom of Circuit Judge John O’Malley this ...

The city attorney for Valley Park denied the city’s ordinances against hiring or renting to illegal aliens were a plan hatched by the mayor to keep Hispanic immigrants out of the town. The statements came Thursday afternoon at a hearing ...

Cory Lidle’s widow sues airplane maker The widow of New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle sued Cirrus Design Corp. and aircraft component makers about four months after her husband’s plane crashed into a Manhattan building, killing him and his pilot ...

False Amber Alert leads police to robber A Topeka man accused of robbing a convenience store and then filing a false police report that triggered an Amber Alert faces several charges in Jackson County. Marion L. Montgomery, 22, was charged ...

The Hershewe Law Firm uses PET scan images, such as this one, to prove brain injuries when MRI tests can’t show the damage. In one case, the scans showed a plaintiff’s brain’s similarities to a patient with early onset Alzheimer’s ...

Concerned about work place confidentiality and privacy, employment lawyers are urging their clients to restrict employees’ use of personal cell phone cameras. “It seems that almost all cell phones now come with cameras,” said Alan Thayer, an employment lawyer with ...

TheGlobe.com lost a ruling to News Corp.

Most people are familiar with the universal recycling logo, which contains three arrows in a circle. Those arrows represent three r’s: reduce, reuse and recycle. It’s important to keep all three in mind as you turn your business green. “We ...

Oklahoma appeals court denies Libertarian ballot restriction claim The Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals has rejected the Libertarian Political Organization of Oklahoma’s claim that Oklahoma’s laws unconstitutionally restrict new political parties’ access to the ballot. Oklahoma law requires a group ...