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Missouri lawmakers passed a budget last week that spends millions in state money to block Planned Parenthood from accessing federal funding. The plan puts Missouri alongside at least a dozen other states in a national effort to strip public money ...

Michael Sam, the first openly gay NFL draftee, slammed a Missouri measure that would shield some businesses that deny services for same-sex weddings, telling fellow opponents Wednesday that it is “the opposite of respect and it is the opposite of ...

Missouri lawmakers appear uninterested in Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposal to reduce the business “border war” between the two states. Brownback last week offered to lessen his state’s efforts to lure jobs away from the Missouri side of the Kansas ...

Missouri lawmakers on Tuesday passed a bill redefining adequate K-12 school funding so the state can spend hundreds of millions of dollars less but still meet the target for fully funding schools. The House voted 116-38 Tuesday to send the ...

Reforms are expected to begin quickly in Ferguson now that a federal judge has approved a settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and the city where 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer. Federal Judge Catherine ...

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the state’s noneconomic damage cap for medical malpractice cases involving wrongful death. In a 5-2 ruling, the court said the cap is not an unconstitutional violation of equal protection rights, even though until ...

  Lee’s Summit attorney and former Missouri legislator Dennis Bonner received an interim license suspension Friday for misappropriating client funds as well as more than $55,000 in third party funds. According to the discipline file, Bonner had multiple incidents involving ...

The 16th Judicial Circuit won a defense verdict Monday in the case of a retired court employee who had accused court officials of age discrimination. A Jackson County jury found in favor of the court over plaintiff Gary Hartman, who ...

Major corporations invested in Southern states have become some of the staunchest opponents of bills they consider discriminatory, facing off against Republican lawmakers eager to portray their states as the best home for global brands. The NFL, Apple and other ...

Jury deliberations have begun in the trial of a retired court employee accusing the 16th Judicial Circuit of age discrimination. Attorneys made their closing arguments Monday following a six-day trial. Tom Porto of The Popham Law Firm in Kansas City ...

The Pentagon misled Congress with inaccurate and vague information about sexual assault cases that portrayed civilian law enforcement officials as less willing than military commanders to punish sex offenders, an Associated Press investigation found. Local district attorneys and police forces ...