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St. Louis County Associate Circuit Judge John Essner, a long-serving family court judge and namesake of an annual award for pro bono work, died Aug. 14 at age 69.

A Missouri judge on Monday rewrote the summary for a legislative redistricting measure that will appear on the November ballot, ruling that the state's Republican-led Legislature tried to misleadingly entice voters into repealing an anti-gerrymandering reform that voters approved just two years ago.

The mayor of Missouri's largest city has been getting plenty of messages about people not following social distancing guidelines at bars, so he decided to check for himself.

Some St. Louis-area environmental watchdogs are criticizing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to declare that Missouri's largest coal-fired power plant has met a key air quality regulation.

In the weeks following Missouri’s in-person bar exam, no examinees have reported to authorities that they have tested positive for COVID-19, according to Missouri Board of Law Examiners executive director Andrea Spillars.

A proposal pitched as a way to improve public safety is facing united opposition from a counterintuitive source: local prosecutors.

Kansas City will require residents and visitors to wear masks in indoor public places until at least Jan. 16, Mayor Quinton Lucas announced Thursday.

A man has been charged in the shooting death of a 4-year-old Kansas City, Missouri, boy whose killing sparked a federal anti-crime task force that has sent hundreds of federal agents to several cities to fight violent crime.

A St. Louis County deputy sheriff who worked at the Clayton courthouse has died of complications related to COVID-19, the court announced Aug. 10.

The annual Up & Coming awards celebrate outstanding legal professionals who are 40 or younger or who are within their first 10 years of practice.

Missouri prosecutors came out against Republican Gov. Mike Parson's proposal to give the state attorney general the power to prosecute St. Louis homicides.