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The Supreme Court is resolving partisan redistricting cases from Wisconsin and Maryland without ruling on the broader issue of whether electoral maps can give an unfair advantage to a political party. The justices unanimously ruled against Wisconsin Democrats who challenged ...

A Missouri prison remains on lockdown more than a month after a sit-down protest turned into a riot, and officials with the union that represents corrections officers worry that a severe staffing shortage could lead to more violence. Inmate activities ...

A new Missouri Supreme Court rule that takes effect July 1 will make it harder for judges to seal pending court cases from public view without explanation. The state Supreme Court adopted the rule in May that requires judges to ...

Kansas’ highest court on Friday postponed a decision on whether the state can execute a man who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and strangling a 19-year-old college student, because of questions about whether he is developmentally disabled. The state Supreme ...

The private attorneys who represented former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ office against potential impeachment proceedings won’t be paid by the state for more than $180,000 of legal bills, a top official decided Thursday. Office of Administration Commissioner Sarah Steelman said ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down Minnesota’s broad restrictions on voters wearing “political” hats, T-shirts and pins to the polls, although it also said states can place limits on such apparel. Minnesota contended the restrictions were reasonable, kept order ...

Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley has filed a lawsuit against the St. Louis suburb of Bel-Ridge, accusing the city of violating the state’s Sunshine Law. The lawsuit announced Tuesday accuses the north St. Louis County town of repeatedly failing to ...

A woman convicted of helping a former street preacher kidnap then-Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart from her Salt Lake City home in 2002 refused to attend a hearing Tuesday before the state parole board that could have helped her get out ...

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling has cleared the way for states to take a tougher approach to maintaining their voter rolls, but will they? Ohio plans to resume its process for removing inactive voters after it was affirmed in Monday’s ...

A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a $28.1 million judgment awarded to six people who were wrongfully convicted of murder in one of the nation’s largest false-confession cases, which could force a Nebraska county closer to bankruptcy. A three-judge ...

The hype regarding the commutation of her life sentence by President Donald Trump at the request of Kim Kardashian West has started to die down. Now, Alice Marie Johnson turns to a much harder task: beginning a normal life outside ...