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Aldi is suing the Community Development Corporation of Kansas City, claiming the nonprofit owes it $200,000 after the grocer voided a contract to build on land at 30th Street and Prospect Avenue. Photo by Amy L. Schmitz After several failed ...

YouTube founders Steve Chen, left, and Chad Hurley share the news of their company’s purchase by Google in a video clip posted on their Web site Oct. 10. Google announced this week it would set aside 12.5 percent of the ...

Merck & Co. won a sixth verdict over its painkiller Vioxx when a jury ruled the drug didn’t cause a 64-year-old Utah man’s heart attack. Jurors in New Orleans ruled Wednesday against Charles Mason, who blamed Vioxx for his heart ...

Insurers may end up paying more than $1 billion in claims as U.S. probes of executive stock-option awards trigger widespread shareholder lawsuits, an executive at insurance broker Willis Group Holdings said. As many as 300 companies may ultimately face lawsuits ...

U.S. judge permits challenge to 1998 tobacco-state deal A Washington advocacy group can go forward with a challenge to Louisiana’s participation in a $206 billion settlement with the U.S. tobacco industry, a federal judge ruled. The Competitive Enterprise Institute sued ...

The perpetrator was 3 inches long, jet black with a mighty sting. It attacked Earlene Mack’s finger as she unloaded a crate of Dole bananas at Christian Northeast Hospital, and now, two years after the “terrifying” incident, Mack is suing ...

The Daily Record early Thanksgiving deadlines Because of the Thanksgiving holiday, ad deadlines will be early for some of next week’s publications. Submissions for the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Nov. 22, 23 and 24, editions of The Daily Record will ...

Kansas City’s largest law firms are in growth mode. According to a survey released Monday by The National Law Journal, the country’s biggest 250 firms continue to add lawyers at a steady clip. And local executives agreed, saying 2006 has ...

Monsanto Co., the world’s biggest developer of genetically engineered crops, likely will face thousands of individual claims that it tried to monopolize the modified corn seed market. A judge in Delaware on Monday denied plaintiffs’ request for class action status. ...

Jim Woodward, clerk of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, says the self-help resource center aims to provide a place where self-represented litigants can find answers to their legal questions. The center opened earlier this month. ...

Newly elected members of the U.S Senate Democratic majority meet with their party leadership Monday at the U.S. Capitol. From left are Jim Webb, of Virginia, Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont who was backed by the Democratic senatorial campaign, ...