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The Obama administration proposed new regulations Thursday designed to reduce the environmental impact of coal mining on the nation’s streams, a long-anticipated move that met quick resistance from Republicans, even as the administration projected only modest job losses in coal ...

A Missouri circuit county judge ruled that the Department of Corrections violated the law by refusing to disclose records about pharmacies that compound the state’s execution drug. The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, which sued the state, said the ...

Taxis are losing business travelers to ride-hailing services like Uber, a survey shows. In the three months ended in June, Uber overtook taxis as the most expensed form of ground transportation, according to expense management system provider Certify. Uber accounted ...

A Jackson County judge has sentenced a suburban Kansas City man to 34 years in prison for a 1991 rape. The Kansas City Star reports that 43-year-old Maurice Webber was convicted in May of rape and other sexual assault charges ...

Democratic Attorney General Chris Koster has more money for a campaign for Missouri governor than all of his Republican rivals combined, after announcing on Wednesday that he has nearly $4 million in his campaign account. In comparison, the four GOP ...

Fewer people sought U.S. unemployment benefits last week as employers remain confident enough in the economy to hold onto their staffs. The Labor Department said Thursday that the number of applications for weekly unemployment aid fell 15,000 to 281,000. The ...

Missouri State University is set to drop health insurance for domestic students after an internal review showed decreasing use. The Springfield News-Leader reports the review showed as many as 30 percent of the university’s domestic students go without health insurance ...

An airline clerk and two other men have been charged with a scheme to ship drugs from Los Angeles to the St. Louis area aboard commercial airlines. The U.S. attorney’s office says Poe Purcell of Paramount, Chalamar Tuipelehake of Bellflower ...

A Joplin oncologist has been sentenced to five years of probation for dispensing unapproved cancer medication to patients. The Joplin Globe reports 74-year-old Robert L. Carter was also ordered in federal court Wednesday to finish payment of $2.1 million in ...

Amazon has come a long way from selling books out of a Seattle garage. The company had an inauspicious start in July 1995 at the dawn of the Web as an online bookseller. It narrowly escaped the dot-com bust of ...

Sexual education classes in some Missouri schools soon must include information about the dangers of online sexual predators and sexting. Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon on Tuesday signed legislation adding the instruction requirement for sex education courses taught at public and ...