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A story on Tuesday about the American Bar Association’s call for a moratorium on executions incorrectly identified the location of the Potosi Correctional Center. The facility is in Washington County.

Former Illinois Gov. George H. Ryan, convicted last year on corruption charges, lost a bid to postpone a 6 1/2-year prison sentence that starts next Wednesday. A federal appeals court in Chicago on Wednesday denied Ryan’s request for freedom while ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled a Tuesday vote on Michael Mukasey’s nomination to be attorney general as support among Democrats dwindled because of his reluctance to clarify his position on torture. Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat and chairman of ...

Merrill Lynch & Co., the largest U.S. brokerage, asked a judge to help unmask a person who has been sending racially charged e-mails to its brokers while claiming to be an administrative manager at the company. Merrill filed a complaint ...

A federal court on Wednesday temporarily stopped the Bush administration from canceling a down payment assistance program to low- and middle-income home buyers. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ended the decade-old program earlier this month, saying it ...

Tyson Foods Inc., the largest U.S. meat processor, must pay $8.5 million to the family of a man killed when his car was hit head-on by a company truck. The family of Marine reservist Daniel J. Brumfield, 22, said he ...

Countrywide Financial Corp. shareholders sued Chief Executive Officer Angelo Mozilo and 19 other company officers and directors, claiming a stock buyback program allowed them to sell shares at inflated prices. The defendants sold $842 million in company stock while issuing ...

Casha Clay walks into a U.S. Cellular store in St. Louis Tuesday morning. U.S. Cellular, along with other cell phone companies, is fighting a move by municipalities to levy taxes on their earnings. Photo by Karen Elshout $6.7 million to ...

Convicted killer sought hearing on competency in post-conviction A convicted murderer’s appeal that he was wrongly denied a post-conviction competency proceeding was turned down by an appellate panel on Tuesday. In part of his request to the Missouri Court of ...

The Supreme Court ruled against the state public defender’s system Tuesday, upholding trial judges’ appointment of public defenders in cases where private attorneys had withdrawn. The state’s highest court in May had issued preliminary writs barring the trial courts in ...

In a 5-2 decision, the Missouri Supreme Court tossed out the conviction of a man sentenced to 28 days in the Buchanan County Jail for failure to pay child support for a child that isn’t his. David Salazar married Shannon ...