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The Missouri Court of Appeals has affirmed a parenting plan that gave four teens the discretion to decide their visitation, holiday and vacation time with their parents. The Southern District found that the mother “invited any error that she now ...

On the evening of May 31, Stacey Lannert, an assistant public defender in the city of St. Louis, answered her cell phone. A state official in Jefferson City asked her to hold; someone wished to speak to her. “Hi Stacey, ...

Two men imprisoned for crimes they claim not to have committed found that the easiest way to get out of prison was to wait for a crisis to force the governor to resign. During his final hours in office on ...

The Business Academy is only part of a broader push at BCLP toward tech-based innovation. It’s a push that gained momentum organically and doesn’t have an overarching name yet, but it includes the academy, a chief innovation officer position, a tech consultancy and a tech forum. And it has champions in the upper echelons of the firm.

U.S. and Canadian officials are negotiating an end to a 16-year legal battle involving a Missouri River water project in North Dakota, though the state of Missouri also has a stake and isn’t part of the discussions. Court documents filed ...

A white former St. Louis police officer whose acquittal in the death of a black suspect set off weeks of protests filed suit Wednesday against the prosecutor who charged him and a police investigator. Jason Stockley’s lawsuit alleges defamation and ...

A Missouri House panel that had been investigating former Gov. Eric Greitens reversed course Wednesday and dropped an attempt to get records related to a secretive nonprofit group that had supported him. A judge had scheduled a Thursday hearing on ...

A second lawsuit has been filed against a guard at a Missouri women’s prison alleging sexual assault of an inmate. The lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses Chillicothe Correctional Center officer Edward Bearden of sexually assaulting inmate Lynnsey Betz. The lawsuit also ...

Former NFL running back Reggie Bush alleges that dangerous conditions at a St. Louis stadium led to a season-ending injury in a case that could leave the city on the hook for damages, even though the Rams are long gone. ...

A federal appeals court ruling has brought an all-but-certain end to a civil-rights suit brought by a man twice convicted of murder before the case was dropped. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday said Kenny Hulshof, who ...

The fate of a Missouri death row inmate whose execution was halted last year after DNA evidence raised questions about his case is on hold as a result of former Gov. Eric Greitens’ resignation. Marcellus Williams, 49, was hours away ...