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Liberty man receives 12-month sentence for meth A Liberty man has been sentenced to 12 years and seven months in federal prison without parole for participating in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, primarily in the Lee’s Summit area. Ryan T. ...

HP paid for Dell plans, ex-employee says Hewlett-Packard Co. paid to obtain information from a former head of a Dell unit about Dell’s plans to enter the printer market, a former Hewlett-Packard executive said in court papers. Karl Kamb, former ...

Failure to rehab would trigger long prison terms

The fate of a pay raise for judges is in the hands of the state Senate. Under a constitutional amendment, the Missouri House and Senate can veto the first pay hike approved by a citizen’s panel in December if both ...

Marilyn Pesto frequently draws from her medical education during her job as a lawyer. She also teaches courses at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine and Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. Photo by Matt Frye Dr. ...

Lucasfilm to be paid $250,000 in lightsaber settlement Lucasfilm, the film-production company of Star Wars creator George Lucas, will be paid $250,000 by a Maryland man and his novelty company to resolve claims he made and sold replica lightsabers without ...

The brief “Lawyers say Katrina insurance settlement reached” in Wednesday’s paper gave the wrong year that Hurricane Katrina damaged homes in Mississippi. It hit the Gulf Coast in August 2005.

An appellate court panel wiped out one of Jackson County’s largest jury verdicts from 2005. A $19.76 million verdict in favor of five former State Farm Insurance agents, who sued the company after they were terminated, was unanimously reversed Tuesday ...

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a ruling that may force resentencing of thousands of California prisoners, struck down part of the state’s criminal punishment system as violating the constitutional guarantee of a jury trial. The justices, voting 6-3, on Monday ...

City loses appeal in 2003 death of UMKC student The parents of a girl struck and killed by a car were successful in defending a verdict awarded to them in 2004. Tan Huifang and Chen Zhiping, who are residents of ...

Lawyers say Katrina insurance settlement reached Lawyers for Mississippi homeowners suing insurers over Hurricane Katrina claims said they’d reached a settlement benefiting thousands of coastal families. The attorneys, led by Richard Scruggs, planned to present settlement documents for court consideration ...