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From the start, the case of a rookie police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man in a public housing stairwell never fit neatly into the national debate over police brutality and minorities. And Officer Peter Liang’s sentencing this ...

Long-term U.S. mortgage rates stayed near 2016 lows this week, potentially good news for the housing market as the spring home-buying season begins. The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage edged up to 3.59 percent from 3.58 percent last week. The 15-year ...

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell to a four-decade low last week, a sign that employers are unconcerned about weak economic growth in the first three months of 2016. Weekly applications for jobless benefits declined to a seasonally ...

Five former employees of imprisoned Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff were convicted at a fair trial, a federal appeals court concluded Wednesday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said evidence offered at a six-month trial that ended in 2014 ...

Missouri lawmakers appear uninterested in Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposal to reduce the business “border war” between the two states. Brownback last week offered to lessen his state’s efforts to lure jobs away from the Missouri side of the Kansas ...

University of Missouri graduate student workers have overwhelmingly voted to unionize. About 84 percent of the 795 graduate students who voted were in favor of allowing the Coalition of Graduate Workers to represent them in collective bargaining. Voting took place ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a judgment allowing families of victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism to collect nearly $2 billion. The court on Wednesday ruled 6-2 in favor of relatives of the 241 Marines who died in a 1983 terrorist attack ...

Two state regulators and a Flint employee were charged Wednesday with evidence tampering and several other felony and misdemeanor counts related to the Michigan city’s lead-tainted water crisis. The charges — the first levied in a probe that is expected ...

The FBI is facing an increasing struggle to access readable information and evidence from digital devices because of default encryption, a senior FBI official told members of Congress at a hearing Tuesday. Amy Hess said that of the cell phones ...

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 ...

Nebraska is desperate to stop the runaway growth of its prison population, but doing so depends a lot on people like Ronald Tillman. Tillman, 54, a paroled drug dealer who suffers from bipolar disease and a debilitating back injury, has ...