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A trial in Jackson County seeks to find out whether smoke detectors sounded when an apartment fire killed three people more than six years ago. Attorneys began arguing their sides Tuesday in a wrongful death trial as several family members ...

Noreen Kelly-Najah was 31 when she tried her first case as lead counsel — an opportunity she would not have had for years to come if it hadn’t been for her firm’s policy of giving young lawyers valuable trial experience ...

As of today, Missouri Lawyers Media, which includes The Daily Record, has assumed the advertising contracts of the Watchman News Group and incorporated its publications into our own. As a result, Watchman legal notices for the St. Louis area have ...

A group representing the music industry is demanding XM Satellite Radio Holdings and Sirius Satellite Radio pay royalties of at least 10 percent of their revenue for the right to play recorded music. SoundExchange, a nonprofit group, made the request ...

Man faces decade-old sodomy charges A man being held in an Illinois jail faces charges that he sexually abused a young boy nearly a decade ago. Ramon L. Morales, 46, was charged Thursday with three counts of first-degree statutory sodomy ...

Bobbie Lou Nailling-Files was announced as the recipient of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Foundation’s 2006 Liberty & Justice Legacy Award. She was the first nonlawyer winner of the award in its four-year history. Nailling-Files served as executive director of ...

A Lee’s Summit family and their attorney are going after a local theater chain for allegedly ignoring crimes being committed on one of its properties. Overland Park-based Dickinson Theatres and its Lee’s Summit location, Eastglen 16 Theatre, were named as ...

Business groups, which threw their support behind the U.S. Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito, may learn soon whether they placed a smart bet. Roberts and Alito are positioned to cast the deciding votes when the high ...

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, communities outside the affected areas wanted to pitch in. But so too did the scammers. Just two weeks after the storm hit, the FBI reported an influx of more than 4,000 Web sites registered ...

A registered sex offender in Maryland says he and others have been threatened with arrest if they fail to comply with a state “suggestion” that they stay home — with their homes unlit, blinds drawn and curtains shut — and ...

Microsoft files suits over counterfeit software Microsoft Corp., the world’s biggest software maker, sued 15 individuals and companies in the United States, claiming they sold and distributed counterfeit copies of Office and other popular company software. The lawsuits, filed in ...