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Missouri lawmakers have advanced a bill that would allow state and local governments to restrict access to public meetings during contagious illness outbreaks such as the coronavirus. A House committee voted 12-2 for the legislation, which is aimed at reducing ...

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For the first time, The Missouri Bar soon will have an African American lawyer as its executive director.

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A Missouri appeals court has revived a lawsuit against a school district and a company that employs substitute teachers in which a fifth-grader accused a substitute of calling him a racial epithet.

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Missouri should be able to conduct thousands of tests per day for the coronavirus and deploy mobile testing sites throughout the state on or around April 1, Gov. Mike Parson said Monday. Parson also announced the state’s sixth case of ...

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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said Sunday that his administration is strongly encouraging the cancellation or suspension of public events with more than 50 people following federal health officials’ recommendations that those events be halted in an attempt to slow the ...

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The Missouri NAACP has called for the state’s top election official to step down in part over his criticism of the Kansas City mayor, who complained about issues with voting during last week’s presidential primary. Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, who ...

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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday declared a state of emergency in response to the spread of the novel coronavirus. The state Department of Health and Senior Services on Saturday announced the state’s fifth case of COVID-19, an individual in ...

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States across the U.S. are allocating hundreds of millions of dollars to respond to the coronavirus, even as the U.S. government prepares to send billions more their way. Many states have built up sizable stockpiles in their “rainy day” funds ...

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Missouri judges are more likely to be men, but the staff who work beside them in the courthouse overwhelmingly are women. Nearly one in six judiciary personnel is a race or ethnicity other than white. And three out of five ...

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The bill, which needs another vote before it moves to the Senate, would set a statute of repose in products-liability cases.

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Several courts and public legal organizations across Missouri and beyond have taken steps, including suspending jury trials and high-volume dockets, to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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