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Groups hoping to squeeze partisan politics out of how states shape congressional districts are hailing a Supreme Court decision that lets independent commissions, not legislatures, draw those lines. But Republicans say Monday’s 5-4 decision upholding Arizona’s independent redistricting commission will ...

A newly retired St. Louis firefighters pension director collected a cash payout of more than a half million dollars at a time the city is asking voters to sign off on a $180 million bond issue for infrastructure improvements, according ...

David Klinger had a troubling premonition, even before he’d entered the Los Angeles Police Academy: He was going to become a police officer, and he was going to have to kill someone to save his partner. He dismissed the latter thought. ...

Data from a June survey echo previous signs that slower economic growth likely lays ahead for nine Midwestern and Plains states, according to a report released Wednesday. The report said the overall Mid-America Business Conditions Index rose to 53.0 last ...

Five retired military dogs that spent years working in war zones are putting their noses to new uses by helping police in the U.S. combat methamphetamine and other drugs. The dogs are being deployed to departments in Indiana, Texas, Tennessee, ...

The U.S. military must continue to alert veterans exposed to chemical and biological weapons experiments of any new information that may affect their health and provide them ongoing medical care, a federal appeals court said Tuesday. The 9th U.S. Circuit ...

At 40 miles per hour, the trailer struck the side of one pickup truck and careened head-on into another, killing the drivers of both vehicles. At first the Jan. 24, 2014, crash on U.S. 50 in Cincinnati’s eastern suburbs drew ...

Gay couples can petition, protest and even sue — but that won’t change Probate Judge Wes Allen’s mind: He is not issuing them marriage licenses, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that marriage is a constitutional right equally held by ...

A Missouri judge has sentenced a 19-year-old Kansas City man to life in prison for stabbing his grandmother to death a day after she celebrated her 70th birthday. Corey Barrett was convicted in May in Jackson County Circuit Court of ...

Two men have been sentenced to federal prison for arson and insurance conspiracy after authorities say they conspired to burn houses they bought and insured in Kansas City, Missouri. A news release from U.S. Attorney Tammy Dickinson says 28-year-old Joshua ...

The competition to become Missouri’s next lieutenant governor is growing. Republican Bev Randles and Democratic state Rep. Tommie Pierson announced this week they’re running for the office in 2016. They join Democratic doctor and attorney Brad Bradshaw, of Springfield. Bradshaw ...