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A longtime trader for Bernard Madoff’s firm was sentenced Wednesday to 10 months of home confinement after his testimony helped convict five former co-workers for their roles in history’s largest Ponzi scheme. David Kugel, 69, apologized before U.S. District Judge ...

A legal battle over the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s traveling Bible and 1964 Nobel Peace Prize is headed for court-ordered mediation, and lawyers for both sides said Wednesday they hope for a lasting resolution to issues that have long ...

St. Louis city residents won’t be voting this summer on using their tax dollars to build a new $985-million riverfront football stadium. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the deadline to get a measure on the August ballot was Tuesday. And ...

Missouri adoption records dispute a St. Louis woman’s claim that her baby was stolen at Homer G. Phillips Hospital in 1965 after she was told the newborn had died. The Associated Press obtained a letter dated May 21 from the ...

A southeast Missouri man faces federal fraud charges linked to what prosecutors say was his practicing of law even though he wasn’t a licensed attorney. A grand jury in St. Louis has indicted 50-year-old James Michael Arnold of Sikeston on ...

The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear an important case about whether states must count only those who are eligible to vote, rather than the total population, when drawing electoral districts for their legislatures. The case from Texas could be significant ...

Construction contractors who haven’t been paid for work on a failed artificial sweetener plant in Moberly will be in court this week to try to enforce liens on almost $2 million in unpaid bills. The contractors did preliminary work for ...

A woman whose book “To Die For” was inspired by the case of Pamela Smart, who plotted with her teenage lover to kill her husband, is asking the governor to consider parole. Smart, who began a torrid affair with 15-year-old ...

The Missouri Senate has hired a lawyer in response to a “workplace harassment complaint.” A document obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press shows the Senate hired the attorney May 7. The legal fee agreement didn’t give additional details regarding the ...

A federal appeals court refused Tuesday to lift a temporary hold on President Barack Obama’s executive action that could shield as many as 5 million immigrants illegally living in the U.S. from deportation. The U.S. Justice Department had asked the ...

Parts of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Roman Catholic Church could easily be mistaken for someone’s living room, if not for the stained glass window depicting Mother Cabrini. Beds line the confessional area and sacristy, where vestments are kept. The vestibule ...