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Public approval of the Supreme Court has fallen following the leak of a draft opinion that would overturn the Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing abortion rights nationwide, according to a poll.
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Courts stymie abortion bans in Iowa, other GOP-led states
Iowa is among GOP-controlled states that would be expected to ban abortion, except for state high court decisions recognizing the right under the state constitutions.
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Read More »State lawmaker facing fraud charges named in new lawsuit
A state lawmaker charged with fraud involving medical treatments has been sued by a patient over the care she prescribed for him to relieve back pain.
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Read More »Opponents of federal vaccine mandate seek rehearing
A federal appeals court is being asked to reconsider its decision allowing the Biden administration to require that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Read More »Kansas City OKs settlement in arrests during 2020 protests
Kansas City officials have approved a new ordinance that clarifies when people may witness or record police officers' actions without being arrested.
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Read More »Federal jury awards $111 million in Minnesota personal injury case
A federal jury in Minnesota has awarded a college student more than $111 million in damages after concluding negligent care of his injured leg following surgery led to a permanent disability.
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Read More »Trump pays $110K fine, must submit paperwork to end contempt
Former President Donald Trump has paid the $110,000 in fines he racked up after being held in contempt of court for being slow to respond to a civil subpoena issued by New York’s attorney general.
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Read More »20 years after spate of Missouri hospital deaths, former worker charged with murder
Twenty years after a string of deaths at a rural Missouri hospital, a former worker has been charged with first-degree murder in one of the deaths.
Read More »Assistant police chief gets $162K to settle discrimination lawsuit
The city of St. Louis will pay a St. Louis assistant police chief nearly $162,000 to settle his federal discrimination lawsuit in which he alleged he was passed over for the city’s top police job because he is white.
Read More »Lawsuit: Students taunted Black student, threatened lynching
Administrators at a Missouri school district that is the subject of a federal civil rights investigation failed to protect a Black teen from repeated racial taunts that culminated with him being threatened with a lynching, a lawsuit alleges.
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Read More »Missouri prosecutor seeks to vacate man’s conviction in mother’s death
A Missouri prosecutor is seeking to vacate the conviction of a man who spent nearly two decades behind bars for the 1998 death of his mother — a crime he and others insist he did not commit.
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