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JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay $1.42 billion to settle allegations that it withheld critical funds from Lehman Brothers in the final days leading up to Lehman’s collapse during the financial crisis. Lehman’s failure is considered a critical moment in ...

As the Missouri House on Tuesday advanced more legislation to change the state’s loose ethics laws, some lawmakers raised doubts about whether the proposals go far enough. House members gave initial approval to a ban on gifts from lobbyists to ...

A Missouri lawmaker on Tuesday said a dispute over right-to-work legislation during a union event last week led to an alley fistfight that prompted one of them to seek a restraining order. Rep. Courtney Allen Curtis released a copy of ...

A man whose murder conviction and death sentence were overturned in the 1991 slayings of two sisters who were thrown from an abandoned Mississippi River bridge in St. Louis will be retried, prosecutors announced Monday. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer ...

The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to review lower court rulings overturning North Dakota’s ban on abortion at six weeks of pregnancy — before many women know they’re pregnant. The justices turned away the state’s appeal of decisions striking down ...

If Leotis Tate ever craved the rapt attention of a federal lawmaker about a grievance, the 51-year-old man had it Tuesday when U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill was among members of the jury hearing his QuikTrip slip-and-fall case. Much to her ...

A widening Republican rift over revamping the nation’s criminal justice system is dashing hopes for overhaul in the final year of President Barack Obama’s tenure despite strong bipartisan support and a concerted effort by the second-ranking GOP senator. One of ...

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the death sentences of three convicted murderers in Kansas may undermine support for a bill that would repeal the state’s death penalty, a sponsor of the measure said. The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a ...

Ever had a debt collector on your back for money you knew you didn’t owe? Listen to the story of Steven Psaros and take heart. The Great Recession forced Psaros into foreclosure on the house he had bought in this ...

Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and his allies are trying to revive their push to remake Kansas’ courts by stoking public outrage over its recent rulings on abortion and the death penalty. Brownback has repeatedly advocated overhauling how Kansas Supreme Court justices ...

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that people serving life terms for murders they committed as teenagers must have a chance to seek their freedom. The justices voted 6-3 to extend a ruling from 2012 that struck down automatic life terms ...