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A groundbreaking lawsuit against an Odessa gun shop that sold a mentally ill woman a handgun she used to kill her father has settled for $2.2 million. Lafayette County Circuit Judge Dennis Rolf signed off on the settlement Tuesday, ending ...

An appeals court has affirmed a penalty against the Missouri Department of Corrections for knowingly breaking the Sunshine Law by withholding information about people who applied to witness state executions. Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem had ordered the department ...

As Gov. Jay Nixon’s time in office is coming to a close, advocates are again calling on him to grant clemency for 15 women who are incarcerated in Missouri prisons. “With eight weeks left in office, Gov. Nixon, now is ...

Mary Marquez, deputy court administrator and director of Family Court Services, was promoted to court administrator effective Feb. 1, 2017, according to court spokeswoman Valerie Hartman. Marquez replaces Jeff Eisenbeis, who is retiring at the end of January. She has ...

A St. Louis police sergeant was hospitalized in critical condition but expected to survive after being shot Sunday night in what the police chief called an “ambush.” Police Chief Sam Dotson said the 46-year-old officer was shot twice in the ...

A St. Louis police sergeant was hospitalized in critical condition but expected to survive after being shot Sunday night in what the police chief called an “ambush.” Police Chief Sam Dotson said the 46-year-old officer was shot twice in the ...

American Jews gathered Thursday to wrestle with how they should confront an election-year surge in anti-Semitism, a level of bias not seen in the U.S. for decades. At a national meeting of the Anti-Defamation League on Thursday in New York, ...

A fight over the constitutionality of Missouri’s sex offender program is now open on two fronts. The Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday considered an offender’s challenge to his conviction as a sexually violent predator, even as the U.S. District Court ...

A woman said investigators’ tunnel vision and mistaken identity led to her being jailed without bail for nearly year in St. Louis in connection to a 2015 fatal shooting. Jadda Kennedy, 26, was initially charged with murder in the death ...

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled Tuesday that defense attorneys in criminal cases are entitled to know witnesses’ last known addresses, but not much else. The ruling stems from a dispute between the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office ...

Frozen embryos are legally marital property, not children, the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled Tuesday. The decision upholds a St. Louis County circuit court decision in October 2014 that Justin Gadberry and Jalesia McQueen’s frozen embryos should continue ...