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Doctors, nurses and staff at the hospital in the heart of the Lake of the Ozarks region are now dealing with an onslaught of COVID-19 patients — some of them struggling to stay alive.

Six chimpanzees have been removed from their caretaker under a court order after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals claimed in 2016 that the chimps were being held in inadequate conditions.

A group of mostly Black pastors has joined other civil rights organizations in Kansas City who are seeking a federal investigation into officer misconduct in the city's police department.

Legal and civil rights officials from St. Louis broke ground July 28 for a memorial commemorating hundreds of enslaved persons and their lawyers who pursued freedom through the St. Louis Circuit Court.

St. Louis County's top elected official insisted Wednesday that a mask mandate remained in place even though the county commission voted to overturn it.

Missouri must pay more than $1 million in legal fees for failing to follow federal voting laws, an appeals court has ruled.

A settlement has been reached to end a lawsuit brought by a civil liberties group over St. Louis police actions taken during downtown protests in 2017.

Former Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon will not run for the U.S. Senate in 2022, dashing hopes of some Democrats who thought Nixon had the best chance to beat a Republican in the increasingly conservative state.

States and businesses, including those in Missouri, scrambled Wednesday to change course after the federal government issued new guidance calling for the return of mask wearing in virus hot spots amid a dramatic spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations nationwide.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed on July 20 that a district court properly excluded a key expert witness for a plaintiff who alleges he was injured by a saw.

An eastern Missouri woman already serving a life sentence for murder pleaded not guilty Tuesday in the stabbing death of her friend a decade ago.