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The Court of Appeals Southern District says a Joplin hospital can be sued long after the statute of limitations had run because it mistakenly had been named as a defendant in the early stages of the suit. Gladys Walker died ...

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Out of a field of 11 candidates, Jolie Justus and Quinton Lucas won the largest number of votes in the city’s primary election on April 2. They now move onto the June 18 general election.

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A St. Louis attorney has been charged with sexually abusing a client at his law office. The St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office alleged that Joseph V. Neill, 66, committed second-degree sexual abuse on Sept. 29, 2018. According to charges filed ...

A wall of rocks and sandbags protected scenic Clarksville from the surging Mississippi River as spring flooding swamped fields, threatened homes and temporarily shut down a bridge connecting Missouri and Illinois Monday. Heavy rain over much of the Midwest on ...

Senior U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry had had enough. “Defendants have repeatedly failed to comply with numerous orders,” she wrote in a Feb. 20 ruling, referring to a landowner and related entity embroiled in a lawsuit with the federal government ...

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Progressive prosecutors are a rare species in Missouri, according to Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney Jean Peters Baker.

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Gov. Mike Parson has appointed two associate circuit judges, one in St. Louis County and one in Clay County.

The state of Missouri now may proceed with the execution of a Missouri man with a rare illness following a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court Monday.

Rising floodwaters in northwest Missouri and beyond have brought renewed attention — and significance — to a lawsuit in which a federal judge found the U.S. Corps of Army Engineers responsible for recurrent flooding along the Missouri River.

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The Supreme Court says Missouri can execute an inmate who argued his rare medical condition will result in severe pain if he is given death-causing drugs. The justices ruled 5-4 Monday against inmate Russell Bucklew, who is on death row ...

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