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A judge has ordered the exhumation of the body of a Chicago business owner and $1 million lottery winner who medical examiners say was killed by cyanide poisoning. As investigators work to find out how 46-year-old Urooj Khan was poisoned, a family drama is unfolding over Khan’s estate and the custody of his 17-year-old daughter. Khan won the $1 million prize last summer and claimed his winnings during a press conference on July 19. The next night, after enjoying a …

The ex-brother-in-law of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson was found guilty Friday of murdering the Oscar winner’s mother, brother and nephew. William Balfour will serve life in prison for, the 2008 shooting and of killing Hudson’s mom, Darnell Donnerson, brother Jason Hudson, and seven-year-old Julian King, a boy nicknamed “Tugga Bear” by his family. Illinois does not have the death penalty. He was convicted despite a lack of DNA evidence, after three days of deliberations in which it seemed at …

The recent struggles of a family to collect a $200-million verdict against a Florida nursing home highlight the difficulty that plaintiffs frequently face in getting the money that a jury has ruled is theirs. Elvira Nunziata, a 92-year-old resident of Pinelas Park Care and Rehab Center, died in 2004 after falling down a stairwell to her death. Her family sued the company that operated the home for negligence because a door was wrongfully left open while employees went for a …