Discontent With Field Drove Him into Race: The Former Prosecutor and Judge Says He Has the Vision to Bring Kansas Citians Together.
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By Jeffrey Spivak, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 19--At one time, Albert Riederer decided to stay out of the Kansas City mayor's race.   But the candidates he wanted to support didn't run, and those who were running did not have qualities he wanted to support.
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A prosecutor told jurors Wednesday to imagine what they would have said if they had been in a parking lot outside the House of Blues more than four years ago as record producer Phil Spector coaxed a reluctant Lana Clarkson to come to his home.
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A little county with a reputation for big lawsuits &#151; some call it a "judicial hellhole" &#151; is getting a visit from a man who wants to make it much tougher to sue somebody.
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The former mayorâs association with New York may be a hurdle to becoming the Republican presidential nominee.
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Federal prosecutors are seeking to seize the assets of David Wittig, former chief executive of Kansas' largest electric utility, Westar Energy.
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The prosecutor who questioned why federal authorities would take an interest in a suspected dog-fighting case possibly involving Michael Vick sounded a conciliatory tone Friday and said there would be "parallel investigations."
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The Senate seat being vacated in Nebraska by Chuck Hagel lures a former governor from his Cabinet post.
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Teammate Anthony Johnson calls him one of the &quot;top 10 players in the world.&quot; The Oakland County, Mich., prosecutor calls him a defendant.
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Religious conservatives have dusted off a largely forgotten 1887 state law that allows citizens to launch grand jury investigations, and they are using it to help turn Kansas into one of the nation's biggest abortion battlegrounds.
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A look at 18 years of Judge Michael B. Mukaseyâs opinions reveals a complex temperament and legal philosophy.
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By Ron Sylvester, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Sep. 11--A Sedgwick County district judge who has pushed for campaign reform in judicial elections for 10 years has asked a federal judge in Topeka to let him join a lawsuit against the commission that wants to keep candidates silent.
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A lawyer representing a Texas death row inmate urged the court to rebuke the state and federal judges who supervise the state's capital punishment system, as oral argument on a case of alleged racial discrimination was heard.
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Having come of age as a political independent while the Cook County Democratic Machine was at its zenith, former Illinois congressman and federal appeals court Judge Abner Mikva knows a thing or two about vote fraud.
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Former Gov. James E. McGreevey wants to get involved in public policy issues and is slowly starting to build a new resume, according to his advisers.
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Was he a powerful politician, forcing himself on a young aide? Or was it consensual? A day after New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey made history by announcing his resignation over an affair with another man, Golan Cipel gave his side of the story.
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Conservatives are using the US senator's remark about judges to press a larger agenda.
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As the use of performance-enhancing substances draws concern from the halls of Congress to the offices of high school coaches, prosecutors have turned their targets into partners in a broader endeavor.