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Missouri lawmakers opened the 2016 session under new leadership Wednesday and saw a relatively quiet start after a tumultuous end to last year’s session. House Speaker Todd Richardson, who took the helm after John Diehl admitted to exchanging sexually suggestive ...

A Bosnian immigrant formerly from Illinois was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison for giving money in support of the Islamic State and al-Qaida, despite her attorney’s plea that she is by no means a terrorist. Jasminka Ramic pleaded ...

Proposed Missouri legislation announced Tuesday would seek to reduce policing bias against blacks by expanding police reporting requirements beyond vehicle stops to include ones involving pedestrians. The measure, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Jamilah Nasheed of St. Louis and Republican Rep. ...

A Missouri legislator has filed a bill to reverse the 2011 merger of the state’s water patrol division and the Highway Patrol. State Rep. Diane Franklin argued that separating the two divisions would restore the public’s trust in the water ...

Monsanto said Wednesday it will eliminate another 1,000 jobs as it expands a cost-cutting plan designed to deal with falling sales of biotech-corn seeds and other financial headwinds. The additional layoffs will bring the agriculture giant’s total planned cuts to ...

President Barack Obama’s move to tighten controls on guns could curb the unregulated buying and selling of weapons over the Internet and at gun shows. But the overall effect on violence in the U.S. could prove to be modest. “It’s ...

A top city of Chicago lawyer stepped down after a federal judge accused him of hiding evidence in a fatal police shooting, the latest allegation of wrongdoing amid ongoing scrutiny of how the city deals with such cases. Separately, the ...

President Barack Obama’s do-it-himself plan for keeping guns away from those who shouldn’t have them falls far short of what he’d hoped to accomplish through legislation after a massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School shook the country to attention in ...

On the presidential campaign trail, Gov. Chris Christie is touting his prosecutions of extremists while he was New Jersey’s U.S. attorney, renewing questions about the government’s methods in two highly publicized cases. “We prosecuted two of the biggest terrorism cases ...

Missouri State University’s top black official announced his resignation Monday, less than a week after the school said an investigation by outside attorneys found “no credible evidence” that the university discriminated against him. The school released a statement saying Ken ...

A Missouri lawmaker is proposing that the state make it a crime for a woman to use drugs while pregnant in an effort he says could encourage women to seek treatment but that opponents say could do the opposite. Rep. ...