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Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft is investigating why a St. Charles County polling place opened 90 minutes late for this month’s primary election. Ashcroft said Monday that doors at the polling place in O’Fallon remained locked 90 minutes past ...

A St. Louis teenager posted online that he was glad to make it to his 17th birthday after all he’d been through. Just over an hour later, he was fatally shot in the head. Armond Latimore was shot outside a ...

Springfield is celebrating a man whose civil rights case changed the course of American history. Sunday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Rev. Oliver Brown — the lead plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, ...

A school district that garnered national attention when a transgender student was crowned homecoming queen in 2015 has installed gender-neutral restrooms at two new elementary schools and in some existing locations. The individual bathroom stalls at Rising Hill Elementary and ...

Kansas and Missouri officials hope to attract the nearly 700 well-paying USDA jobs that are being moved out of Washington D.C. Kansas and Missouri hope to land the jobs for the Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and ...

Of all the horrific details contained in the Pennsylvania grand jury report on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, one sentence stands out: “The main thing was not to help children, but to avoid ‘scandal.'” When sex-abuse cases dominate ...

A Boone County judge issued an order on Aug. 3 forcing an insurance company to pay $5.4 million to a man wrongfully convicted of killing a newspaper editor in Columbia. Ryan Ferguson spent a decade in prison for the 2001 ...

A workers’ compensation insurance carrier could bring a breach-of-contract action to recover unpaid insurance premiums from an aircraft painter, according to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In a case of first impression, the appellate court held that the ...

The decision made by the Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District on Aug. 8 to uphold the indefinite detention of a man designated by a jury to be a sexually violent predator drew a dissent from the chief judge. In ...

Eight years of bitter litigation was supposed to come to a head on Aug. 6 in Jackson County Circuit Court, until a last-minute lawsuit against the plaintiff’s attorney delayed the trial for at least six months. The long-running dispute centers ...

As a lawyer and independent-minded Republican, Rep. Jay Barnes might have spent his last session fielding questions on arcane areas of law and pushing back on such legislative priorities as tort reform. But when Gov. Eric Greitens was charged with a crime, Barnes was tapped to lead the House’s own investigation of the governor.