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A former teacher at a St. Louis school has filed a lawsuit alleging she was dismissed in retaliation for reporting that another employee was sexually assaulting her teenage daughter. The suit filed last week in St. Louis County Circuit Court ...

The Senate on Monday narrowly confirmed one of President Barack Obama’s nominees to be a federal judge in Maryland, overcoming opposition from some conservatives who felt nominee Paula Xinis was too tough on law enforcement in her career as a ...

The First Amendment is getting a new champion, with some deep pockets. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Columbia University on Tuesday announced the launch of a $60 million project, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia ...

The full appeals court in Washington will hear arguments in the legal fight over President Barack Obama’s plan to curtail greenhouse gas emissions, potentially accelerating the case’s path to the Supreme Court. The United States Court of Appeals for the District of ...

The Missouri Legislature this session voted to curtail public access to some public records that lawmakers have sought to seal for years. Some police body camera footage, agricultural data and criminal records would become closed records under legislation sitting on ...

A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that a pair of Ohio law firms did not use illegal tactics when they sent out debt-collection letters on stationery bearing the name of the state’s attorney general. The justices said the use of official ...

Designed to withstand tornadoes, earthquakes and even bomb blasts, a castle-like southwest Missouri home that was meant to last forever must be torn down and erected again, its owner argues in an ongoing lawsuit. Pensmore, a 72,000-square-foot home, might not ...

Pharmaceutical company Pfizer said Friday it was blocking use of its drugs in lethal injections, which means all federally approved drugmakers whose medications could be used for executions have now put them off limits. “Pfizer makes its products to enhance ...

The Supreme Court failed to resolve a knotty dispute between faith-based groups and the Obama administration over birth control on Monday, the latest indication of the shorthanded court’s struggle to find a majority for important cases taken up before Justice Antonin ...

The Supreme Court says an Internet search site that posted false information about people can be sued only if the errors caused actual harm. The 6-2 ruling on Monday is a narrow victory for the search service Spokeo.com and other technology ...

Bidding in an online auction for the pistol former neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman used to kill Trayvon Martin appeared to have been hijacked by fake accounts posting astronomically high bids. At one point early Friday, the bidding surpassed $65 ...