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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Jackson County judge says Kansas City can move forward with its new ordinances designed to crack down on predatory towing. Judge Lauren Barrett issued her ruling Tuesday morning ...

A once-solemn legal reckoning over decades of childhood sexual abuse in Los Angeles County is turning into a bizarre gold rush, with Wall Street vultures circling. In the months since Los Angeles ...

A former Webb County correctional officer who used his badge to terrorize and sexually assault women under his watch will spend the next two decades behind bars. U.S. District Judge Diana Saldaña ...

The PGV Tenants Association, representing 34 households, says conditions at the complex sharply deteriorated after Hines purchased the building nine months ago. According to tenants, the new ownership ...

Puppy stores have long traded on a simple promise: choose a puppy, fall in love, and bring a new member of the family home. At retailers such as Petland, that familiar story masks a far more troubling ...

Station group’s request for 30% to 50% fee increases is ‘egregious’ and ‘divorced from market reality,’ the cable operator said When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Behold: Ken Paxton will now demonstrate that broken clocks are indeed right twice a day. The Texas Attorney General is notorious for, well, a very long list of reasons. But in this case, he at least ...

AUSTIN, Texas - Nationwide, more than half of all homes have declined in value over the past year per recent data from Zillow. But here in Austin, that's the case for almost 89% of homes. With ...