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An appeals court steered litigation over the employment status of nine men who worked FedEx delivery territories back to U.S. District Court, saying the question of whether they were employees or independent contractors should be submitted to a jury. “In ...

The FBI and Jackson County officials have been investigating four cases of guards accused of abusing inmates at the county jail, authorities announced Monday. County Executive Mike Sanders announced the county and FBI investigations at a news conference. Sanders said ...

Missouri lawyers elected three new members to The Missouri Bar’s Board of Governors. The new members are Jennifer E. Matthew of St. Louis; W. Perry Brandt of Kansas City; and Deborah Dodge of Springfield. Dodge will serve in the southern ...

The attorneys for a man charged in a marijuana smuggling case continued their arguments Monday that the case against him should be thrown out over the alleged conflicts of a law firm that previously represented him. Thomas Anderson Jr.’s current ...

The Ferguson Municipal Court will make sweeping changes to its procedures in response to a state law that reforms municipal courts. Ferguson Municipal Court Judge Donald McCullin issued an order Monday to withdraw all arrest warrants issued before December 31, ...

A Wichita State University mathematician says she’s not optimistic that she’ll win her lawsuit seeking ballot information so she can perform an audit of the 2014 election. Beth Clarkson is suing Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Sedgwick County ...

The debate over a controversial proposal to end the automatic granting of citizenship to children of people in the U.S. illegally is a distraction from what the nation really needs to do to stem the tide of illegal immigration, several ...

President Barack Obama may have finally shed his summer curse — just in time for a daunting fall. Unlike past summers, this year’s has been among the most productive stretches of Obama’s presidency. Late June victories in the Supreme Court ...

The vast majority of business economists expect the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates before the end of the year, according to a survey released Monday. Minutes from the Fed’s meeting in late July showed that officials could raise rates ...

A trial is underway for a Missouri white supremacist accused of killing three people last year at two Jewish sites in suburban Kansas City. Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. could face the death penalty if convicted in the April 2014 killings. ...

U.S. officials knew of the potential for a catastrophic “blowout” of poisonous wastewater from an inactive gold mine, yet appeared to have only a cursory plan to deal with such an event when a government cleanup team triggered a 3-million-gallon ...