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A Missouri appeals court panel cleared the way Friday for voters to decide a November ballot initiative that could shake up the state Legislature by requiring districts to be drawn to achieve “partisan fairness” and imposing new lobbying limits. The ...

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A federal judge has set a trial date for a lawsuit alleging the developer of a Kansas City entertainment district discriminated against black patrons and also decried attorney conduct in the case.

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The daughter of an 84-year-old woman with dementia alleges in a lawsuit that her mother was repeatedly raped at a suburban St. Louis nursing home. Vivian Colette Green says in the lawsuit filed Thursday in St. Louis County Circuit Court ...

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The college students and neighbors gathered at a St. Louis coffee shop seemed like one of the friendlier crowds Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill might face campaigning in heavily Republican Missouri. But the audience on a recent night came armed with ...

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A 5-year-old Missouri girl is on mission to have ice cream with some of the state’s most influential people. Kindergartener Taylor Duncan met Tuesday with Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and Jefferson City Mayor Carrie Tergin over orange sherbet, the Jefferson ...

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Missouri's Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill announced Wednesday she will vote against President Donald Trump's nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, citing his positions on "dark money" issues.

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A federal judge has sentenced former Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders to 27 months in prison for misusing political-campaign-committee funds. After serving his sentence, Sanders will have three years of supervised release.

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District has affirmed a jury verdict against a man whose actions led a co-employee to severely injure his hand at work.

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A man already imprisoned for armed robbery has been charged in a 1999 murder in St. Louis. Thirty-nine-year-old Deangelo Thomas was charged Monday with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of 30-year-old Floyd Epps. Epps was found ...

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A former southwest Missouri postal carrier has been sentenced to three months in federal prison for pocketing money and presents from people on his mail route. U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark said in sentencing 58-year-old James Chapman on Monday that, ...

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More than a dozen people arrested in a police “kettle” during a 2017 protest in St. Louis are suing the city, police officers and their supervisors, alleging they were roughed up, pepper sprayed and illegally detained. Federal lawsuits were filed ...

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