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Leading St. Louis-area doctors are warning residents to brace for at least another year of living with the coronavirus.

A sheriff's deputy who shot and killed a Missouri woman after a traffic stop this summer will not be charged in her death even though it was possibly avoidable, a special prosecutor announced Monday.

Two women who allege they were defamed in the run-up to a multimillion-dollar jury trial in Jackson County are asking the Missouri Supreme Court to allow their suit to proceed in the same circuit.

A trial date has been set in the case of Donald “Doc” Nash for the 1982 murder of Nash’s girlfriend, Judy Spencer.

Missouri regulators have spent $1.3 million to defend themselves in court against a wave of lawsuits filed by businesses that were denied medical marijuana business licenses.

Protests against St. Louis County restrictions on high school sports continued Monday, when hundreds gathered in Clayton to demand that limits be lifted.

With many teachers opting out of returning to the classroom because of the coronavirus, schools around the U.S. are scrambling to find replacements and in some places lowering certification requirements to help get substitutes in the door.

Four years ago, Missouri lawmakers offered a chance of release for inmates serving life without parole for crimes they committed as teens. The Missouri Supreme Court is now considering whether that law went far enough.

Two trial judges and a litigator have been nominated to fill a vacancy on the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District.

The leader of the University of Missouri system and chancellor of its flagship Columbia campus is backtracking in the face of backlash and a possible lawsuit for blocking critical students on Twitter.

While officials from the Jackson County Circuit Court are eager to resume jury trials this month, questions from attorneys abound about the wisdom of doing so during a pandemic and the logistics of preventing the spread of COVID-19.