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A Jackson County judge ordered last week that accused serial killer Lorenzo Gilyard would face just one trial. Judge John R. O’Malley sustained the defense’s motion to join the offenses and ruled that the court hold one trial to handle ...

In the days following Hurricane Katrina, uptown New Orleans resident Mark Morice rescued more than 200 stranded people using a boat left behind by a neighbor. “My husband is alive today because of Mark,” Molly Gordon said. The owner of ...

A federal judge gave former St. Louis lawyer Charles E Polk Jr. 46 months in prison at a criminal sentencing hearing Thursday in the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Missouri. Polk was also ordered to pay more than $500,000 ...

Grandfather charged with sexual abuse A Kansas City man faces allegations that he had sex with two of his granddaughters. Humberto Lobo, 78, was charged by Jackson County prosecutors with multiple counts of first-degree statutory rape and sexual abuse for ...

The Michigan Supreme Court’s decision to overrule its opinion in Hagerman v. Gencorp Automotive turned on the definiteness of one article – “the.” Faced with the question of whether a work-related injury was the proximate cause of an employee’s death ...

Because a Charlotte, N.C., driver’s failure to give a turn signal didn’t affect other cars or pedestrians, there was no probable cause to pull him over, the state Supreme Court has held. The traffic stop by a city police officer ...

Choosing a licensed architect can be a challenging endeavor, especially since many companies who need to hire one have little experience in this area to help guide them through the selection process. Because architects can help with many aspects of ...

Merck & Co. asked a judge in Texas for permission to investigate financial links between the widow of man who took the company’s Vioxx painkiller and members of the jury that awarded her $32 million in damages for his death. ...

Merck & Co. won dismissal of U.S. class-action lawsuits filed on behalf of people in France and Italy who claim they were harmed by the painkiller Vioxx. U.S. District Court Judge Eldon Fallon in New Orleans threw out the suits ...

Declaring Rory v. Continental Insurance Co. a “complete break from solid, longstanding law,” the Michigan Court of Appeals has made one thing clear: The landmark decision may be a break, but it sure can’t catch one. Decided by the Michigan ...

A group of architectural designers should be allowed to sue a competitor for violating federal copyright laws by taking advantage of portions of their protected work, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. The architectural designers argued that ...