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  Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of profiles of potential nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court, following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.   Sri Srinivasan, a federal appeals judge who was born in India and grew ...

For a clue on how the Supreme Court may decide a major abortion case it heard Wednesday, look to its impending decision in a fight over abortion clinics in Louisiana. The justices may not decide the high-profile case about regulation of ...

Reginald Clemons appeared in St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison’s courtroom Wednesday at a hearing meant to determine his counsel for his new double-murder case, but no decision was made. Clemons was convicted of the April 4, 1991 murders of ...

A state senator running for attorney general wants Missouri to expand its “stand your ground” laws to make it easier for people to use deadly force in self-defense. Sen. Kurt Schaefer, a Republican from Columbia, told a Senate panel Wednesday ...

Harper Lee was an ordinary woman as stunned as anybody by the extraordinary success of “To Kill a Mockingbird.” “It was like being hit over the head and knocked cold,” Lee — who died Thursday at age 89, according to ...

Polsinelli is in talks with leadership at intellectual property firm Novak Druce about merging the two firm’s intellectual property practices and bringing a group of IP attorneys to Polsinelli. “This will further build the firm’s nationally recognized Intellectual Property practice ...

Missouri senators passed a bill Thursday to prohibit lawmakers from quitting mid-term to become lobbyists, a much scaled-back version of legislation that has been discussed for the past several weeks as part of larger ethics campaign aimed at repairing the ...

The Missouri House passed legislation Thursday requiring public employees to give annual, written permission for union dues to be withheld from their paychecks, though the measure would exempt first responders such as police and firefighters. House lawmakers approved the bill ...

Justice Antonin Scalia’s flag-draped casket was carried up the marble steps of the Supreme Court Friday in a somber procession that began a day of ceremony and tribute to one of the court’s most influential members. Scalia’s eight Supreme Court colleagues, his ...

St. Louis County police began carrying the heroin antidote Narcan on Thursday in hopes of saving some of the victims of a drug that has become a scourge in the region. All commissioned personnel in the St. Louis County Police ...

A white Missouri police officer has been placed on unpaid leave after he appeared in a racially charged music video wearing his uniform and carrying a sign reading “cops lives matter.” St. Joseph patrolman Zackary Craft also is seen reaching ...