A Jackson County Circuit judge has struck down an ordinance Kansas City Council members passed to keep Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s wife out of his office and out of their hair. The ordinance was enacted in September in the wake of ...

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A Jackson County jury awarded a developmentally disabled man a total of $300,000 in damages on Friday in a civil case stemming from a struggle with Kansas City police that took place in 2003. The award for plaintiff Darrell Sterling ...

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A Kansas City lawyer told the Missouri Supreme Court he acted with “intellectual curiosity” when he wrote letters to a Jackson County circuit judge challenging her integrity and accusing her of engaging in judicial tyranny. Chief Disciplinary Counsel Alan Pratzel, ...

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