Ten years in prison is not enough for a woman who restrained her 9-year-old daughter to allow a child predator to molest her, a federal appeals court said Wednesday. It marked the third time the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court won’t review a dispute between the Missouri Public Service Commission and Southwestern Bell Telephone over the authority of the commission to enforce a provision of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The high court denied the commission’s ...

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A former H&R Block supervisor facing an employment discrimination lawsuit has the right to arbitrate the claims filed against him, a federal appeals court said Monday. Jodi Finnie, a black female, was hired as a business process development coordinator at ...

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Shirley Phelps-Roper, the daughter of the founder of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., sued the city of St. Joseph last week over a city ordinance barring protests around funerals and funeral processions. Phelps-Roper and members of her church believe ...

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