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The Obama administration is making it easier for some Indian tribes to obtain federal recognition, addressing a longstanding grievance of many Native Americans. The new regulation updates a 37-year-old process that has been roundly criticized as broken because of the ...

The federal agency that oversees railroads is asking digital mapping companies to alert users as they approach track crossings. The Federal Railroad Administration announced Monday that, so far, Google has agreed. The effort comes as deaths from train-on-vehicle collisions increased ...

A divided Supreme Court on Monday ruled against federal regulators’ attempt to limit power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants. The rules began to take effect in April, but the court split 5-4 along ideological lines to ...

Narcotics investigators in Springfield say the city is seeing an influx of higher-grade marijuana from states where the drug is legal, particularly Colorado. Dan Banasik, a Missouri State Highway Patrol supervising sergeant for narcotics, says the more potent drug has ...

The country finally has an opportunity to change the subject on health care, after the Supreme Court again upheld President Barack Obama’s law. There’s no shortage of pressing issues, including prescription drug prices, high insurance deductibles and long-term care. But ...

The Supreme Court is staying out of a long-running legal battle between technology giants Oracle and Google over copyright protection for a computer program that powers most of the world’s smartphones and computer tablets. The justices said Monday they won’t ...

After years of flooding in the small southeast Missouri town of Dutchtown, many of the residents are finally getting federal buyout money. Fewer than 100 people live in Dutchtown, south of Cape Girardeau. Renewed flooding along the Mississippi River is ...

The Supreme Court upheld the use of a controversial drug in lethal injection executions Monday, as two dissenting justices said for the first time that they think it’s “highly likely” that the death penalty itself is unconstitutional. The justices voted ...

A Kansas City man has been sentenced to six years in prison for killing a motorist while speeding and under the influence of several prescription drugs. Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd said 30-year-old Anthony Battaglia was sentenced Thursday after pleading ...

An Independence woman has been arrested after authorities say she solicited a hit man to kill her former son-in-law over a custody dispute involving her grandchildren. According to court documents, 61-year-old Teresa Owen appeared in federal court Wednesday and was ...

The chief justice who once mangled President Barack Obama’s oath of office has once again helped rescue the president’s signature achievement, his health care law.   After an awkward first encounter, these two Harvard Law graduates who rose to high ...