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A record 7 million men and women, about 3 percent of the adult U.S. population, were incarcerated, on probation or parole at the end of last year, the Justice Department said. The prison population has been swelled by prosecutions for ...

Talk show host Jay Leno and NBC Studios sued the publishers of joke books such as Joke Express and Love’s Funny That Way, claiming the books illegally reproduce the work of Leno and other comedians. Andrews McMeel Publishing and Barnes ...

After leaving victim in trash, man faces several charges A Kansas City man faces kidnapping, robbery, burglary and assault charges for a Nov. 25 attack that left his victim in a school trash bin. According to a police report, Christopher ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. investors sued some of the computer maker’s directors, claiming they sold $38 million in company stock shortly before publicly acknowledging an internal probe into boardroom leaks. The directors, including Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd, exercised options and sold ...

By next July, Missouri judges could see their first pay increase in six years under a plan recommended Wednesday by a citizens commission. Under the plan, judges, as well as legislators and statewide officials, would receive flat pay increases of ...

The plaintiffs — A. Rafanelli Winery in Healdsburg, Calif., Thomas Family Winery in Madison, Ind., and retail wine store Hamilton Beverage in Carmel, Ind. — challenge the constitutionality of laws that prohibit wineries in states that don’t have reciprocity agreements ...

BP faces an order to show it hasn’t broken a pledge to pay the medical bills of three workers hurt in March 2005 at the Texas City, Texas, refinery blast that killed 15 people and injured hundreds more. The three ...

Mission Hills attorney sentenced to five years Kansas City-area attorney Jan Pleasant Helder Jr. was sentenced to five years in federal prison without parole Wednesday for attempting to entice a minor to engage in illicit sexual activity. The 43-year-old Mission ...

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When Doug Dalgleish started practicing law, he wouldn‘t have wanted another lawyer to appeal a case that he tried. “You can’t imagine anyone else knowing the case as well as you,” he said. Now, Dalgleish, head of tort litigation for ...

With a few exceptions, the plea bargaining practice at the Kansas City Municipal Court has returned to its pre-moratorium state. On Tuesday, new guidelines took effect that address a defendant’s eligibility for amendments on speeding cases and other minor traffic ...