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Lezley McSpadden was taking a cigarette break from her grocery store job when a friend called to say someone had been shot in the street near Canfield Green Apartments in Ferguson. Within minutes, her cellphone rang again. It was a ...

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday said once again that Missouri law does not allow insurers to claim portions of their beneficiaries’ personal injury settlements — despite what a federal agency says. In 2014, the court had ruled that the ...

For the second time in three months, a St. Louis jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a huge award over claims that its talcum powder causes cancer. The jury deliberated eight hours Monday before ordering the company to ...

Taped on the office door of Rep. Brandon Ellington, the chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus, is a cutout of the House public safety chairman’s smiling face, topped with the words “This is what bigotry looks like!” The poster directs ...

The owner of a burning suburban St. Louis landfill near buried radioactive waste has agreed to new measures meant to slow and help monitor the underground blaze, a U.S. Environmental Agency administrator said last week. While stressing there’s no evidence ...

The Missouri House gave final approval on Wednesday to an overhaul of the standards for courts to admit expert testimony. The bill, passed 85-68, would require Missouri courts to follow the so-called Daubert standard, named for the 1993 U.S. Supreme ...

The Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would limit the public’s access to some footage from police body cameras, which Republican lawmakers said was a necessary prerequisite for more law enforcement departments to take up the technology. Other bills mandating ...

Kraftig Brewing Co. founder William K. “Billy” Busch is now offering $1 more than his siblings in his effort to buy Grant’s Farm in south St. Louis County. Busch on Monday increased his offer for the attraction to $26,000,001. He ...

Missouri lawmakers passed a budget last week that spends millions in state money to block Planned Parenthood from accessing federal funding. The plan puts Missouri alongside at least a dozen other states in a national effort to strip public money ...

Michael Sam, the first openly gay NFL draftee, slammed a Missouri measure that would shield some businesses that deny services for same-sex weddings, telling fellow opponents Wednesday that it is “the opposite of respect and it is the opposite of ...

Reforms are expected to begin quickly in Ferguson now that a federal judge has approved a settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and the city where 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer. Federal Judge Catherine ...