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Court delays drug tests at U.S. airline repair centers Airline maintenance companies battling a federal rule requiring employee drug tests won a U.S. court ruling giving them a 10- day delay in the start of the screening. The U.S. Court ...

DNA helps prosecutors file charges in 1997 rape case Jackson County prosecutors filed charges Wednesday in a nine-year-old rape case. Christopher L. Alexander, 32, of Kansas City, was charged with one count of forcible rape and two counts of second-degree ...

Treading into the emotionally charged issue of race relations, the Mound City Bar Association in St. Louis will hold a special meeting tonight to discuss possible racial or gender disparities in The Missouri Bar’s most recent judicial survey. Released in ...

After a top salesman left a firm, his former employer said he violated a noncompete clause. The salesman insisted he was just trying to make a living. The he-said, she-said might have ended in a legal stalemate. Enter New York ...

A Shawnee man was charged Tuesday in connection with a New Year’s Day shooting in 2005. Rodney E. Carter, 26, allegedly shot two people near the intersection of 31st and Oak streets on Jan. 1, 2005, after they were involved ...

An area coal company recently won a $6.46 million jury verdict against a Missouri Department of Natural Resources employee on the grounds that he intentionally interfered with the business’s operations. The three-day trial before Judge John T. Maughmer in U.S. ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday debated whether companies could sue to invalidate a rival’s patent even when not facing an infringement suit, hearing a case that may affect thousands of drug and biotechnology inventions. The justices considered arguments from ...

A Jackson County jury continues to hear testimony this week on the injuries a Louisiana family sustained when their vehicle was struck by a train five years ago. Attorneys for the plaintiffs presented during the trial, which is in its ...

“Every minute of every day” is how often one attorney says illegal debt-collection practices are used against consumers. Debra K. Lumpkins, managing attorney of the consumer unit for Gateway Legal Services, said she had heard some horrendous stories about collection ...

Merck & Co. will face about 40,000 claims over its withdrawn Vioxx painkiller once deadlines for filing lawsuits lapse around the country, court records and lawyer estimates show. Most suits over the drug have been filed in state courts in ...

Shareholders sue BP execs alleging mismanagement BP shareholders sued dozens of current and former executives at the world’s third-biggest oil company, claiming corporate mismanagement reduced the value of their stock. Unite Here National Retirement Fund, a pension plan for union ...