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A Missouri state senator has refused to stand while her colleagues recited the Pledge of Allegiance in the state Capitol. Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, a St. Louis Democrat, says her silent protest Wednesday on the Senate floor was intended to show ...

A challenge over the propriety of a judge’s wife serving as a juror ultimately was set aside in a Western District Court of Appeals ruling Tuesday, with the court finding the defendant failed to raise a challenge at the time ...

A second-grader who refused a teacher’s request to move to a different chair suffered emotional and physical pain when a school resource officer placed the 7-year-old in handcuffs, a lawsuit filed Thursday against Kansas City Public Schools alleges. The lawsuit, ...

A state commission has ruled that a former police officer can be disciplined for pointing a semi-automatic rifle at Ferguson, Missouri, protesters more than two years ago. Raymond D. Albers was a lieutenant for St. Ann police. He was working ...

A federal judge announced Wednesday that an investigation into recordings of attorney-client meetings and phone calls at a Leavenworth detention center will probe potential 6th Amendment violations and the involvement of federal prosecutors and a private prison company. The U.S. Attorney’s ...

A suburban St. Louis school district has agreed to pay $75,000 to settle a federal lawsuit alleging that it failed to protect a high school student from “severe, pervasive and persistent” harassment. A judge granted a motion last month to ...

The Missouri Department of Corrections must comply with an order to produce information on its use of an execution drug and its suppliers in response to a third-party subpoena following an 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling. In a ...

A former Armstrong Teasdale partner on Thursday filed an age discrimination lawsuit asking the firm to change its policy that requires equity partners retire at 70. Joseph S. von Kaenel worked from Armstrong Teasdale from June 1, 1972 to Dec. ...

The Ferguson-Florissant School District on Thursday asked to file a mid-case appeal following a ruling last week that found the district’s school board elections violate the Voting Rights Act. “We understand it’s a long shot, but we think it’s a ...

A judge has ordered St. Louis’ city prosecutor to disclose names and addresses of victims and witnesses to defendants. St. Louis Circuit Judge Gael Wood’s order Wednesday follows more than a year of litigation by St. Louis’ head public defender ...

Two years after Michael Brown’s shooting death put a national spotlight on Ferguson police, the suburban St. Louis city is struggling to maintain the number of officers it needs. The department is facing 13 vacancies. It’s down to a staff ...