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Kansas City represents a turning point in Scott Turow’s legal career. The best-selling author of legal fiction and attorney at Dentons in Chicago told a crowd of Legal Aid of Western Missouri supporters he was in the same city — ...

After examining one of the Missouri Supreme Court’s most confusing recent precedents, the Court of Appeals Western District has resurrected a series of lawsuits involving suspicious deaths at a northern Missouri hospital. The families of five people who died at ...

During his short tenure in office, former Gov. Eric Greitens had an outsized impact on the makeup of the Missouri courts.

President Donald Trump’s order to stop separating migrant children from their parents spread confusion and uncertainty along the border, with no clear plan to reunite families though with growing signs the administration is dialing back its “zero tolerance” policy on ...

The human backup driver in an autonomous Uber SUV was streaming the television show “The Voice” just before the vehicle struck and killed an Arizona pedestrian in March, according to a published report. The Arizona Republic reported that the driver ...

A rape suspect says he was burned with scalding water at a jail in Kansas City and later mistakenly released. Shawn Schneider discussed his concerns about the Jackson County jail in an interview with WDAF-TV. He says he plans to ...

Even in an era of deep political division, Democrats and Republicans agree presidents should not pardon themselves. And if the nation’s chief executive ever does so, majorities of Americans in both parties believe Congress should impeach that president. Those are ...

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that police generally need a search warrant if they want to track criminal suspects’ movements by collecting information about where they’ve used their cellphones, bolstering privacy interests in the digital age. The justices’ 5-4 decision ...

A state appeals court on June 19 issued a split ruling on the limits of a constitutional provision that allows prosecutors who are trying a defendant for sex crimes against minors to tell the jury about that defendant’s prior convictions for similar offenses.

Larry J. Bingham, a founder and former managing partner of Seigfreid Bingham in Kansas City, died June 17 at age 78. “The entire Seigfreid Bingham family extends its condolences to Larry’s wife, Ann, his three children, his four grandchildren and ...

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach unsuccessfully sought a governor’s pardon for a corporate campaign donor’s vice president whose crime, police said, involved threatening a cab driver by putting a gun to his head. Kobach, a Republican and candidate for ...