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While there’s consensus in some other Republican-dominated states to ramp-up laws to keep firearms out of the hands of domestic abusers, a Missouri proposal to do that appears to have little chance in the GOP Legislature. Democratic St. Louis Rep. ...

UPDATED The Missouri Senate voted unanimously Thursday to bar cities, counties and law enforcement agencies from setting traffic ticket quotas, responding to criticism that some communities have been too reliant on raising money from issuing these and other types of ...

Campaign money from shadowy sources is back this presidential election. At least $4 million of it is flowing to outside groups helping White House hopefuls, making it difficult to trace who’s behind the big bucks. Both parties benefit from money ...

A Republican lawmaker wants to make it easier for Missouri women to get birth control. Rep. Sheila Solon told a House committee Wednesday decades of use have shown oral contraception is safe and critical for many people and pharmacists should ...

The Supreme Court’s recent decision to step into a relatively unimportant case involving Microsoft’s Xbox 360 gaming system revealed that Chief Justice John Roberts has sold between $250,000 and $500,000 in Microsoft stock in the past year. Federal judges violate the ...

Nine Kansas City police officers who were suspended during an internal investigation into the department’s crimes against children unit will be reinstated and assigned to patrol bureau. The Kansas City Star reports two police sergeants and seven detectives are expected ...

A proposal that would force inmates to die by electric chair if lethal injection drugs can’t be found is gaining steam in Virginia, in part because of a looming execution scheduled for next month. State officials are frantically searching for ...

Another problem has developed with automotive air bags, this one resulting in recalls of up to 5 million vehicles worldwide. Continental Automotive Systems says in documents filed with the U.S. government that moisture can get inside its air bag control ...

Iowa’s snow-covered fields and friendly villages were fraught with danger for pollsters, who had a tough time pinning down the state’s fickle electorate. Most poll-takers took it on the chin when Donald Trump’s lead in pre-election polls ended with a ...

Three of the biggest freight railroads operating in the U.S. have told the government they won’t meet a 2018 deadline to start using safety technology intended to prevent accidents like the deadly derailment of an Amtrak train in Philadelphia last ...

Many Ferguson residents expressed concern Tuesday that a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice could financially ruin the St. Louis suburb where a police officer fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown. About 100 people crammed into the tiny Ferguson City ...