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McKesson Corp., the largest U.S. health care services company, will pay $18.7 million to settle a class-action securities fraud lawsuit filed against St. Louis-based D&K Healthcare Resources Inc., which McKesson acquired in 2005. McKesson, based in San Francisco, said Tuesday ...

A Tuesday sentencing in St. Louis federal court handed out the first prison time in the case of four former St. Louis County deputy sheriffs who were arrested last year for accepting bribes on the job. Richard Robinson was sentenced ...

U.S. Attorney Stanley Alpert’s book The Birthday Party: a Memoir of Survival tells the story of his kidnapping on his 38th birthday. His attention to detail helped federal investigators and New York detectives find his kidnappers. contributed photo U.S. Attorney ...

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in two closely watched federal sentencing cases. Rulings in Rita v. United States and Claiborne v. United States are expected later this term, and the court may use them to clarify its ...

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to question Utah’s ban on polygamy, turning away an appeal by a former policeman convicted of taking a 16-year-old girl as his third wife. The nation’s highest court on Monday made no comment in rejecting ...

Paint makers told to pay for lead-paint cleanup Sherwin-Williams Co. and two other former lead-paint makers must pay for the cleanup of thousands of contaminated homes and buildings in Rhode Island, a judge ruled, denying the companies’ request for a ...

St. Joseph woman pleads guilty to computer fraud A St. Joseph woman pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to a computer fraud scheme in which she embezzled nearly $60,000 from her employer. Jackie L. Black, 52 admitted she used a ...

22nd Circuit Judge Michael Calvin, right, responds to a question during the annual Hon. Theodore McMillian Black History Month Dinner in downtown St. Louis. Mound City Bar Association President Pamela Meanes, left, introduced the panel, which also included, from left, ...

Nine states sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accusing it of failing to regulate mercury levels at cement plants throughout the United States. The states claim an EPA rule exempts plants that make portland cement, which is used in buildings ...

U.S. Supreme Court justices suggested they would shield police officers from lawsuits for intentionally causing a suspect’s car to crash during a high-speed chase. Hearing arguments Monday, several members of the high court said a Georgia man fleeing police at ...

Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, leaves U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., for his perjury trial Friday. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton dismissed a juror Monday, the fourth day of deliberations. Photo by ...