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A prosecutor’s overzealous closing argument doomed the verdict, unduly prejudicing the defendant when he “inflamed the passions of the jury” by asking them to find the defendant guilty to “make the whole county safe,” found a united Appellate Court of ...

“Oh, we want to travel, and we like fishing,” said Carol Crandall wishfully as she looked from a set of deck windows through a small forest of aspen and at a lake near the rural Warren County home as she ...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice signed a consent decree resolving a lawsuit against Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire, LLC filed to protect the rights of a national guardsman returning from active duty. As part of the agreement, Bridgestone has agreed to ...

On Thursday, the U.S. Air Force awarded The Boeing Co. a $609 million contract for additional joint direct attack munition tail kits. Boeing’s Weapons Enterprise Capability Center in St. Charles will perform the work for this contract. In order to ...

It’s that time of year again. The nation’s taxpayers have less than two weeks to file their income tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service. During the past two decades, Americans increasingly have turned to professional tax preparers, according to ...

A factual dispute still remains over the case of a Randolph County couple who were denied an attempt to recover an earnest money deposit from a failed real estate transaction. In Jerry and Renee Swartz v. Mann, originally heard in ...

It came down to the line for a group of attorneys sued for legal malpractice by an insurance company and an Illinois county, as the Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District, determined the county is not immune from improper placement ...

The slow but steady increase of mortgage interest rates in the last year has some market watchers spooked that the residential real estate bubble has reached its bursting point. But those in the commercial real estate market are not quite ...

Editor’s note: This article is the second in a two-part series on bills currently in the Missouri Senate. The first article appeared last Monday, March 28. The use of tax dollars to help pay for redevelopment projects has been used ...

A total of 3,725 lawyers were subject to public sanctions for professional misconduct during 2003, according to the Survey on Lawyer Discipline Systems published by the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Professional Discipline. The survey is the most recent ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments this month in a tragic case that could lead to sweeping changes in the way police departments throughout the nation respond to violations of domestic violence protection orders. The question in Castle Rock ...