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Baby’s 2004 death results in prison sentence A Kansas City man was sentenced to prison for shaking and beating an 11-month-old girl to death in 2004. Timothy L. Thomas Jr. received 15 years each for second-degree murder and child abuse ...

The U.S. government was not liable for the negligent driving of an Army reservist who hit another car while he was driving to a military training session at an Army depot, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of ...

E-mail conversations between an employee and his lawyer, conducted via the employee’s private, Web-based e-mail account but from a company-issued computer, were protected by the attorney-client privilege, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge has ruled. The plaintiff employer argued that because ...

The appeals court has tossed out a jury verdict that held the North Carolina Department of Transportation liable for a motorist’s injuries in a chain collision. The 1998 accident occurred after a DOT contractor’s rig suddenly slowed to 15 mph ...

If you need a mortgage to finance a residential or commercial property, get ready to do your homework – there’s a wide selection of lenders and loan products out there, and you’ll have to shop around to find the best ...

Costco Wholesale Corp. ignored internal warnings that female workers couldn’t get promoted, and Chief Executive Officer Jim Sinegal opposed recommendations to post all management positions, employees suing the company claim. Court filings in a sex bias case against Costco show ...

“You may sit down. You may sit down now, or I’ll get a court officer to make you sit down!” Those were the now-infamous instructions former Superior Court Judge Maria I. Lopez barked at Suffolk County, Mass., prosecutor David A. ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court will not enforce legislation passed earlier this year to prevent out-of-state physicians from testifying as expert witnesses without first obtaining a South Carolina medical license. In an order handed down late last month, the high ...

The union representing clerk’s office employees at the Baltimore City Circuit Court has declared partial victory in its fight against the leadership and policies of Jury Commissioner Nancy Dennis and her lead worker, Cheryl Reese. Reese has been transferred out ...

A U.S. appeals court told the Federal Communications Commission Thursday not to enforce a recent order that declared some “fleeting” uses of profanity during television broadcasts indecent. The indefinite stay, issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York, ...

The Kansas City Council adopted a resolution Thursday afternoon ordering the city attorney to once again accept defective-equipment plea bargains. Despite Mayor Kay Barnes’ arguments to reject, the council widely approved of the resolution that was recently introduced by Councilman ...