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Karen Stipes always believed her missing mother was “Mountain Jane Doe,” buried unidentified in a paupers’ cemetery deep in the woods outside Harlan, Kentucky. But without proof, it took nearly half a century and the development of DNA technology for ...

Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is skewering a lawsuit filed by a former ally, describing it as a malicious attempt to sever his remaining ties to the widely used ride-hailing service that he co-founded. Kalanick lashed out in legal documents ...

A member of a small western Missouri town’s governing board is leading an effort to oust the police chief who investigated statutory rape allegations against her son. Theresa Wilson, the chairwoman of the Ferrelview Board of Trustees, points out that ...

A Missouri lawmaker who drew bipartisan outrage over her brief Facebook comment expressing hope that President Donald Trump would be assassinated apologized publicly Sunday to Trump and his family, calling the online posting “a mistake.” But Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, a ...

Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill is spending the August recess trekking through Republican strongholds in rural Missouri as she gears up for what’s expected to be a fierce battle for a third term. Missouri has shifted even further to the right ...

For years, callers with out-of-state area codes couldn’t connect with Missouri’s toll-free hotline to report cases of potential child abuse and neglect, an issue advocates worried could discourage good Samaritans and mean some kids might not get the help they ...

A former dean at a Missouri women’s college is suing the school, saying it created “a hostile work environment based on gender.” The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in state court by Carole Chabries, a former dean of graduate and continuing ...

Soon after he opened his office serving immigrants fighting to stay in the United States, Raed Gonzalez became a lawyer who goes after other lawyers. A person with a winnable case can be thrown into deportation by a missed deadline ...

City leaders in Missouri’s capital are hoping that new legislation will help rejuvenate the state’s former prison and the largely dilapidated area around it. Gov. Eric Greitens signed a measure last week turning over 32 acres of state-owned land to ...

After more than 50 years of litigation, a federal judge has brought an end to a water-rights lawsuit involving four Native American communities and various residents in northern New Mexico. The lawsuit, known as the Aamodt Case, began in 1966. ...

House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley hesitated when asked about his party’s core message to voters. “That message is being worked on,” the New York congressman said in an interview this past week. “We’re doing everything we can to simplify ...