A family that thought city officials shortchanged it in taking property for development and took the case all the way to the Supreme Court has reached a nearly $2 million settlement. The C.F. White Family Partnership and the Lupton Living ...

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An Independence attorney has lost his law license once and for all after he mishandled clients’ funds. The Missouri Supreme Court disbarred H. Kent Desselle in an order issued April 17. The disbarment comes as little surprise, as Desselle had been ...

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The federal government and the city of Independence have reached a settlement aimed to force improvements to the city's sewer system. Under the proposed settlement filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City last week, Independence agreed to make improvements to its sewer system to end the sewage overflows. The EPA estimates the cost of those improvements at $35 million.

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A federal jury in Iowa has awarded $8 million to a man who worked at a microwave popcorn plant and developed a lung disease caused by a chemical in the artificial butter flavor. The plaintiff, 69 year-old Ronald Kuiper, did ...

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Kelly Caine, the father of a girl who died in a December 2006 house fire in Bates County, declined Tuesday to agree to a settlement proposed before a hearing at the Jackson County Court Annex in Independence. Caine drove all ...

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