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Two Kansas City men charged in shooting death Two Kansas City men face charges of second-degree murder for Monday’s shooting death of Marcus A. Henson. Vincent Gipson, 26, and Anthony Simpson, 24, allegedly approached Henson in the 5200 block of ...

A Lee’s Summit attorney has recovered contingency fees from a former client he said acted unfairly and in bad faith. A Jackson County jury awarded Michael Healy more than $70,000 after he was not paid for his work in a ...

Two lawsuits against ExxonMobil Corp. stemming from a massive fuel leak at a Jacksonville, Md., gas station belong in federal court, not state court, a federal judge has ruled. In a pair of opinions issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Marvin ...

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons prevailed in federal court last week over a prison inmate who accused the Phat Farm clothing company founder of stealing T-shirt and tennis shoe designs. U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett dismissed the complaint filed by ...

Metro attorneys spent Friday morning advancing another motion against attorneys for Cross County Collaborative, insisting six months ago they cornered a former St. Louis MetroLink project manager and obtained privileged information from him about the ongoing lawsuit. Friday’s hearing before ...

Abuse of the pain medication OxyContin has been implicated in hundreds of overdose deaths. Now, a compensation carrier’s delay in authorizing a prescription for that drug is being blamed in the death of a North Carolina man. In a June ...

A Superior Court judge found a Lowell, Mass., attorney deceived his client for more than nine years about the status of his case. The client, John J. Jakubek, whose wife and four children were involved in a car accident, retained ...

The developer of the restored Hilton President Kansas City hotel has reached a settlement in his suit against a law firm he claimed defrauded him. After more than four weeks of evidence, Ron Jury and President Hotel reached a confidential ...

History is not just part of the past. It is made and influenced daily. Historians take on the job to learn of former times, document it and prepare for the future. Genealogists specialize in charting the historic lines of individuals ...

Durham County, N.C., prosecutors properly established the authenticity of text messages that were sent to and from a murder victim’s cell phone before he was killed, the Appeals Court has held in a first-impression ruling. Testimony from cell phone company ...

One in four. Those are the odds that a couple, both carriers of the gene for cystic fibrosis, will bear a child with the disease. For a Maryland couple who already had one child with cystic fibrosis, those odds weren’t ...