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Teen arrested for robbery,home burglary A 17-year-old Kansas City boy was charged with two counts of first-degree robbery and one count of first-degree burglary in connection with a home invasion last week. Paul J. Williams allegedly stole two notebook computers, ...

Applebee’s restaurant faces a federal class action lawsuit alleging that it violated minimum wage and fair labor standards. In the suit filed earlier this month in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, plaintiff Gerald A. Fast ...

A malpractice trial coming to an end last week in St. Louis County Circuit Court alleged a dentist improperly prescribed painkillers to a woman, leading to her eventual addiction to the drugs. Dr. Howard Schwadron prescribed increasing doses of Class ...

In two $2 million lawsuits, three people claim they were subjected to police brutality in May 2004 as officers attempted to shut down the Sowebo Arts Festival in Baltimore. Jeffrey J. Smith claims he was punched, stomped and beaten with ...

A North Carolina man disabled by pain related to his sickle-cell anemia is eligible for benefits from the Social Security Administration, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed this week. Sickle-cell anemia is a blood disorder that makes sufferers ...

A diagnosis of black lung disease, followed by a claim for benefits and a denial, does not trigger the statute of limitations for a second claim, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held. Usually, the three-year statute of ...

What would have been an arranged marriage between a western Massachusetts man’s son and the Indian niece of friends of the father has ended up as an ugly dispute in Hampden Superior Court over the would-be bride’s physical appearance. Vijai ...

A Charleston, S.C., woman who claimed her back was injured during a chiropractic treatment was entitled to a new trial on her malpractice claims, an Appeals Court ruled July 10. The reason: The trial court’s jury instruction improperly required a ...

The state’s intermediate appellate court has ordered a new trial for a Prince George’s County, Md., man convicted of fatally shooting two students during a late-night robbery three years ago. Isaiah K. Willis was found guilty in May 2004 of ...

In a July 10 opinion the South Carolina Appeals Court ruled a former salesman who got a jury verdict of $906 for an unpaid commission was not entitled to a $35,000 attorney’s fee award. The problem was not the size ...

Jonathan F. Booth claims he lost his job as a prison guard in Maryland because as a Rastafarian he refused to get rid of his dreadlocks. The state claims Booth was fired because he violated safety regulations and failed to ...