A Missouri judge who turned anger over his father’s death into a lifelong search for a cure for Lou Gehrig’s Disease now will help lead a national organization with the same aspiration. The ALS Association National Board of Trustees recently elected Jackson County Judge Jay Daugherty as chairman. The group fundraises and lobbies for research surrounding amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, whose best-known victim was baseball star Lou Gehrig. “It’s an unforgivable disease, and it seems particularly cruel,” Daugherty said.

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A Kansas City firm this month convinced a judge to toss out a criminal judgment he approved 13 years ago. All it took was a foreign birth certificate and a few citations to the Vienna Convention. Cuong Huy Phan was ...

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