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McDonald’s Corp. is accused of failing to tell customers its french fries and hash-brown potatoes contain wheat and dairy ingredients that trigger allergies in some consumers in a lawsuit filed last week in federal court in Chicago. The 11 plaintiffs, ...

The families of two Americans killed during the Bay of Pigs invasion can collect up to $90.9 million from frozen Cuban government bank accounts, a federal judge in New York ruled. U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero cleared the way on ...

Two of the jurors who convicted HealthSouth Corp. founder Richard Scrushy and former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman said they used information from the Internet during deliberations in the bribery trial. Katie Langer, a teacher, and Sam Hendrix, an Auburn University ...

Five now charged in east side shootings Two more people were charged in connection with a series of drive-by shootings from last week. According to court records, Alejandro Fernandez, 19, was the driver of a vehicle from which a friend ...

Lew Meltzer’s firm, Meltzer Lippe Goldstein & Breitstone, goes for a nicer version of lawyer jokes. The firm posts New Yorker cartoons on its Web site. Photo by Bob Giglione/Dolan Media Newswires You’re stranded on a desert island with Adolf ...

In three of the highest-profile corporate scandals of this decade, attorneys involved in the prosecution said, the high-ranking defendants in these cases may have been some of the smartest guys in the room — to borrow a phrase from Enron ...

Anheuser-Busch loses trademark dispute in China Budejovicky Budvar, a Czech beer brewer battling Anheuser-Busch over use of the Budweiser trademark, said it won a brand dispute in China and could sell its brew in the world’s largest beer market. The ...

General Motors will have to pay $12,000 for breaching the warranty of a car bought in Independence, a Jackson County jury ruled. Richard Borland purchased a 2004 Pontiac GTO with 200 miles for $33,000 at a used car lot, according ...

A federal judge last week questioned why the state didn’t advertise for medical professionals willing to help with executions. During closing arguments in death row inmate Vernon L. Evans Jr.’s bid to stop his execution by lethal injection, Chief U.S. ...

Contemporary artist and sculptor Jeff Koons created the Niagara painting, incorporating a Gucci advertisement from the August 2000 issue of Allure magazine. contributed art An artist’s use of a photograph in his painting does not constitute copyright infringement, the U.S. ...

Two sex offenders did not violate Maryland’s sex-offender registry laws by failing to provide new addresses when they became homeless, the Court of Appeals held Wednesday. The decisions in separate cases reversed convictions for Raymond Twine and James Jeandell, each ...