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A man already imprisoned for armed robbery has been charged in a 1999 murder in St. Louis. Thirty-nine-year-old Deangelo Thomas was charged Monday with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of 30-year-old Floyd Epps. Epps was found ...

A former southwest Missouri postal carrier has been sentenced to three months in federal prison for pocketing money and presents from people on his mail route. U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark said in sentencing 58-year-old James Chapman on Monday that, ...

The sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh recall Anita Hill’s accusations against Clarence Thomas in 1991, however, there are important differences as well as cautions for senators considering how to deal with the allegations. The decision to ...

The day after a grand jury report revealed that Roman Catholic clergy in Pennsylvania molested more than 1,000 children in multiple decades, Adrienne Alexander went to Mass at a Chicago church and waited for the priest to say something about ...

A St. Louis suburb will revise a law that allowed for eviction of residents who made repeated emergency calls after a lawsuit alleged that the ordinance punished victims of domestic violence. The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday announced the ...

The task of drawing new boundaries for thousands of federal and state legislative districts is still about three years away, yet the political battle over redistricting already is playing out in this year’s midterm elections. North Carolina’s congressional elections were ...

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation tumbled into highly charged arguing Thursday about whether key documents were being withheld, and one Democrat risked Senate discipline by releasing confidential material. A newly disclosed email revealed that President Donald Trump’s pick once ...

Lawyers are seeking to force President Donald Trump’s administration to pay for the mental-health treatment of immigrant children they say are suffering lingering emotional effects from being separated from their parents at the U.S. border. A federal class-action lawsuit filed ...

A Roman Catholic bishop who apologized to his flock last month for the “misguided and inappropriate decisions of church leaders” is reckoning with his own role — revealed in federal court a decade ago — in the system that protected ...

Two advocacy groups alleged in a lawsuit Tuesday that police in Phoenix violated the free-speech rights of protesters outside a rally by President Donald Trump by firing tear gas as they were about to confront Trump supporters. The excessive-force lawsuit ...

The lawyer for a homeless man in Philadelphia whose selflessness led to donations of more than $400,000 through an online fundraising page said Tuesday that all the money is gone. Johnny Bobbitt’s attorney, Chris Fallon, said he learned the cash ...