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Jurors were unable to reach a verdict in a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by a Black man who was wrongly arrested when he was 15 and held for three weeks without charge.

The University of Missouri-Columbia has suspended all fraternity activities after an alcohol-filled party ended with a freshman being taken to a hospital.

A Christian boarding school is suing to stop state officials from implementing new regulations that were put in place following long-running abuse at some unlicensed residential care facilities.

Help for roughly 100,000 teachers whose Social Security numbers were made vulnerable in a massive state data breach could cost Missouri as much as $50 million, the governor's office confirmed Tuesday.

In an U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion filed Oct. 8, the court affirmed a district court order to deny an appellant’s motion to disgorge $38 million in attorney fees, while granting an appellee and the appellant’s motions to supplement the record and denying another appellee’s similar request.

Jackson County officials on Monday approved a settlement with a church that had sued over COVID-19 restrictions that it claimed discriminated against religion.

Officials with the pension fund serving teachers and other public school employees in Missouri say they're reviewing safety protocols after a data breach last month.

Two cases heard in the Missouri Supreme Court on Oct. 6 question the release of a party’s medical records for review in courts.

The attorneys we honor this year in our Women’s Justice Awards are trailblazers. Glass-ceiling breakers.

On Oct. 8 a St. Louis County jury awarded a couple $10 million in the 60-year-old husband’s medical negligence case against a spine surgeon who operated on him twice.

In a ruling that was decades in the making, the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled recently that school districts alleged to have fired an employee for filing a workers’ compensation claim cannot claim the protection of sovereign immunity.