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Gov. Jay Nixon signed into law Thursday a bill that would reinstate limits on medical malpractice awards, according to a news release. “This bipartisan legislation protects patients by making sure that significant financial restitution can be sought in cases of ...

The Missouri Legislature has sent the governor a measure in response to concerns voiced by some residents in the St. Louis area following last summer's fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer.

BNSF Railway Co. lost an appeal of a $900,000 verdict for an Iraq veteran who broke his ankle in a fall from a locomotive cab.

Investigators do not need a search warrant to obtain cellphone tower location records in criminal prosecutions, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a closely-watched case involving the rules for changing technology.

An appellate court reduced — but did not wipe out — a verdict of more than $1 million for a woman injured by a drunken driver.

Missouri lawmakers disagree over how long minors convicted of first-degree murder should have to spend in prison, with a House panel on Monday advancing a proposal that would end the state's mandatory life without parole sentences by offering an alternative sentence of 25 to 40 years.

  St. Louis Circuit Court judges appointed Matthew C. Melton commissioner of the circuit’s Drug Court. In a meeting Thursday, the judges selected Melton from among three finalists, also including Scott A. Millikan and Michael L. Walton, according to a ...

A Missouri inmate has been executed for killing a man in a fit of rage over child support payments 16 years ago. Andre Cole, 52, on Tuesday night became the third convicted killer put to death this year in Missouri. ...

A district judge agreed to halt the lethal injection of a Missouri death-row inmate, but the decision was quickly appealed by the attorney general just hours ahead of the scheduled execution.

After initially failing to come to a consensus, the Missouri Association of Prosecuting Attorneys came forward this week to support a bill that would make sweeping changes to the prosecuting attorney system in Missouri.

The Appellate Judicial Commission on Thursday selected James M. Dowd, Lisa Page and Erwin O. Switzer as finalists for a vacancy on the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District.