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A Mexican landscaper who was paralyzed 14 years ago after falling from a ladder while trimming trees at a Ladue home settled a state workers’ compensation claim for more than $1.1 million. Jose Angel Valdez Garcia, who was 36 at ...

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The state of Missouri’s 12-year takeover of the formerly unaccredited St. Louis Public Schools may be complete, but a legal dispute involving a $4 million default judgment against an ex-music teacher imprisoned for repeated sexual assault of a female student ...

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An Illinois woman who was struck from behind by a truck during her morning commute in East St. Louis settled a federal suit against the other driver and his employer for $550,000. Wendy Zeller, 45, was driving her 2008 Hyundai ...

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Pete Woods traces the roots of his deep community service to the family dinner table in 1970s University City. With a newspaper union president for a father and a mother, Harriett Woods, who would rise from the U City Council ...

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As the mother of a black son who was 13 at the time, Pamela Meanes always felt the 2014 fatal police shooting of Michael Brown was personal — even as she used her platform as president of the nation’s largest ...

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Growing up in a predominantly black neighborhood of Springfield, Massachusetts, Dan Cranshaw was only vaguely aware of his minority status in a majority-white world. That would change once he arrived at the Deerfield Academy, a private boarding school the future ...

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A Joplin law firm representing the estate of an Arkansas man killed in a head-on collision reached a $1 million settlement with an Illinois trucking company and the driver of the tractor-trailer truck that swerved to avoid an ATV that ...

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A Kansas City motorist who sued a teen driver after being struck from behind in a September 2016 collision got a mixed message from a Platte County jury — not to mention a much smaller payout than the $42,000 final ...

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A St. Louis County jury has sided with a Bridgeton radiologist and the clinic where he worked in a wrongful-death lawsuit that alleged he failed to diagnose the ischemic colitis that led to a 59-year-old patient’s death in 2011. Hakim ...

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A boy severely injured by an inebriated pickup-truck operator settled a suit against the driver and his insurer for a total of $1.35 million. The settlement was the largest of four connected to the crash on July 17, 2017 in ...

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A 48-year-old school bus driver injured in a 2013 collision in St. Charles County was awarded $275,000 following a two-day jury trial. Kimberly Draper of St. Charles suffered a superior labral tear in her shoulder, from anterior to posterior (also ...

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