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Missouri’s budget director on Monday said the state can’t count on getting $50 million in anticipated tobacco settlement money that was budgeted to be spent this fiscal year. Budget director Dan Haug said a September appeals court ruling means the ...

Volkswagen’s pollution-control chicanery has not just been victimless tinkering, killing between five and 20 people in the United States annually in recent years, according to an Associated Press statistical and computer analysis. The software that the company admitted using to ...

A former Navy pilot has filed a $35 million lawsuit against the federal government alleging that a Veterans Affairs doctor misdiagnosed him with a mental illness that caused him to lose his ability to fly commercial airplanes and be wrongly ...

The Supreme Court is taking a step to address criticism that its inner workings are opaque. The court announced Monday that its website will identify and highlight changes to opinions after they are released to the public. Changes will be ...

In a rare personal message, California’s 77-year-old governor provided insight into his deliberations before deciding to sign a bill allowing terminally ill Californians to legally take their own lives, reflecting on religion and self-determination as he weighed an emotionally fraught ...

The European Union’s highest court struck a big blow Tuesday against Facebook and other companies by ruling that a long-running pact allowing the free transfer of data to the U.S. is invalid as it does not adequately protect consumers. The ...

Cybercrime costs are climbing for companies both in the U.S. and overseas amid a slew of high-profile breaches, according to research released Tuesday. A sixth-annual study by the Ponemon Institute pegged the average annual cost of cybercrime per large U.S. ...

Retired businessman John Brunner formally entered the crowded Republican field seeking to be Missouri’s next governor, touting himself as a political outsider with the leadership experience to bring needed change to state government. In a video announcing his candidacy Monday, ...

She slipped out of the house before dawn, leaving behind four handwritten letters. She’d bought a new outfit at a Wal-Mart the night before — gray pants, a black-and-white knit shirt, black sandals. She always wanted to look nice, especially ...

St. Louis County police must strengthen policies for handling protests, improve training on diversity and community policing, and do a better job of hiring and promoting minorities and women, according to a report released Friday by the Department of Justice. ...

An attorney for a troubled and developmentally delayed teenager accused of attempting to rape his adoptive sister argued to the Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday that he unfairly faces being listed on the adult sexual offender registry. The case centers ...