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Joplin school officials are being sued over claims that they violated the U.S. Constitution by allowing students to go on a field trip earlier this month at a Christian ministry. The Joplin Globe reports that the suit was filed by ...

A choreographer who accused Michael Jackson of years of molestation cannot pursue his allegations against the singer’s estate because he waited too long to file the legal action, a judge ruled. Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff wrote in his ruling Tuesday that ...

Americans signed contracts to buy homes in April at the fastest pace in nearly nine years, evidence that steady job growth is strengthening the real estate market. The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that its seasonally adjusted pending home sales index ...

Obama administration attorneys urged a federal judge Thursday to throw out a politically charged lawsuit by House Republicans over the president’s health care law, but encountered plenty of skeptical questions. “You don’t really believe that, do you?” U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer ...

The Washington Supreme Court has struck down a state law that attempts to curtail lawsuits brought in bad faith to hinder public discussion. In a unanimous opinion Thursday the court said the law, enacted by the Legislature in 2010, violates ...

The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a key abortion restriction in Arkansas on Wednesday, agreeing with a lower court judge that it was inappropriate to ban most abortions after the 12th week of pregnancy if ...

A Harvard Law School professor who served briefly as a top legal adviser to President Barack Obama has died. Daniel Meltzer was 63. Harvard announced Wednesday that Meltzer died Sunday after a battle with cancer. Meltzer had been on the ...

Federal prosecutors are opposed to moving U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption case from New Jersey to Washington. Attorneys for Menendez and co-defendant Salomon Melgen had filed the request this month, arguing virtually none of the 22 counts they’re charged with ...

Drinking water for 117 million Americans will be protected under new government rules shielding small streams, tributaries and wetlands from pollution and development, the Obama administration said Wednesday. The rules issued Wednesday by the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. ...

The leaders of soccer federations corrupted the sport for nearly a quarter century by taking $150 million in bribes and payoffs, U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday as they laid out a sweeping case involving over a dozen people and marquee events ...

St. Louis County is one of 20 jails in the country being given $150,000 each by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to come up with ways to reduce the number of people unnecessarily behind bars. The grants ...