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Normally this time of year, huge barges can be seen chugging up the Mississippi River, carrying millions of tons of grain to market and bringing agriculture-related products to farmers in the Midwest for the new growing season. But there’s not ...

A Columbia man launched a business, published a children’s book and created a nonprofit after serving eight years in prison. Cory Crosby now has his heart set on opening a business incubator that welcomes Columbia’s minority entrepreneurs. Crosby is trying ...

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson laid out a relatively simple agenda when he began his first legislative session as the state’s chief executive. Infrastructure and workforce development, he called it in his State of the State speech. When the session ended ...

In a matter of weeks, the legal framework for medical marijuana in Missouri is expected to be in place — and Shook Hardy & Bacon is the latest big law firm to offer help navigating it.

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As state lawmakers were wrapping up the 2019 legislative session, the Missouri Supreme Court heard a case that could expand who may challenge the laws they pass. The court heard arguments on May 14 in a lawsuit by an environmental ...

As abortion opponents cheer the passage of fetal heartbeat laws and other bans on the procedure, abortion-rights groups have been waging a quieter battle in courthouses around the country to overturn less direct restrictions passed in recent years. At least ...

State proceedings against the owner of a duck boat that sank on a Missouri lake last summer, killing 17 people, will be temporarily halted until federal charges in the case are resolved, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced May 16. ...

Missouri’s Republican-led House on Friday passed sweeping legislation designed to survive court challenges, which would ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy. If enacted, the ban would be among the most restrictive in the U.S. It includes exceptions for medical ...

Lawyers planning to change their status to inactive soon will see the fee associated with that change double. Starting Nov. 1, the fee will increase from $50 to $100 annually, following a new Missouri Supreme Court order. The court approved ...

The home of the St. Louis Blues could receive $70 million in state subsidies for two decades to help pay for renovations that local officials hope will attract more amateur sports events to the arena. Missouri lawmakers gave final approval ...

Missouri’s Republican-led Senate has passed a wide-ranging bill to ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy, acting only hours after Alabama’s governor signed a near-total abortion ban into law. The Missouri bill needs another vote of approval in the GOP-led ...