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Dennis Hastert pleaded guilty Wednesday to lying to the FBI in a hush-money scheme, agreeing to a deal with federal prosecutors that recommends he serve no more than six months in prison and averting a trial in the case. A ...

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit challenging an indecent exposure ordinance in Springfield on behalf of two women who organized a topless demonstration to protest laws that they say unfairly target women. The ACLU of Missouri argues ...

Rep. Paul Ryan has spent his entire life preparing for a job he says he never wanted. Ryan worked as a congressional intern in college, returning later to work as a paid staffer on Capitol Hill. By 28, he was ...

A federal judge has tossed out an activist’s lawsuit that sought to keep St. Louis from revoking an occupancy permit for his downtown shelter for homeless people. U.S. District Judge John Ross dismissed on Tuesday the lawsuit filed in March ...

Charles Kwara and his friends sit around an earthenware pot, sipping a frothy gray drink through long straws as laughter fills the Charismatic Club in the slums of Kampala, Uganda’s capital. The men joke that the crude brew of fermented ...

She was the queen of the “OK Corral,” a tot-toting grandmother who stepped up to rent out street corners and run the bustling cocaine trade in her north Philadelphia neighborhood after her 20-year-old son was gunned down. By the time ...

So a few states out West and a couple cities on the East Coast have voted to legalize marijuana. Does that mean legal pot can fly in the heartland? A ballot proposal before Ohio voters next month would be the ...

Female faculty members at the University of Missouri tend to make $16,000 less than their male counterparts, while racial and ethnic minority faculty members also make $16,000 less than their majority counterparts, according to a study released at the university ...

Attorneys for a man scheduled to be executed next month for a triple murder in Columbia are trying to halt his execution, arguing that he is mentally disabled and that drugs used during a lethal injection would cause him pain ...

Missouri’s House speaker on Friday called for mandatory annual sexual-harassment training for members and staff following allegations that a former lawmaker sexually harassed interns and another exchanged sexual texts with one. GOP Speaker Todd Richardson also wants to ban House ...

Colleen Kelly came to Guantanamo Bay with a sense of impatience, dismayed at the U.S. military’s floundering effort to try five detainees charged with roles in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. Having lost a brother at the World Trade Center, ...