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Despite a record number of executions in Missouri this year, executions and new death sentences nationwide dropped to their lowest numbers in decades in 2014, an anti-death penalty group said in a new report.

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A bill filed this month would require pregnant women to get permission from the father before having an abortion except in cases of incest and what the Missouri Republican who sponsored the legislation called “legitimate rape.”

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A Kansas prosecutor will seek the death penalty against a white supremacist from Missouri who was ruled competent Thursday to face trial on charges of killing three people at two Jewish sites in suburban Kansas City.

A judge on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will assume senior status next spring.

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The state is suing 13 St. Louis County municipal courts over what it calls fiscal failures.

Assistant U.S. Attorney John Bodenhausen will be a U.S. Magistrate judge in St. Louis starting next year.

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The Missouri Supreme Court has never been the American Tort Reform Association’s favorite group of judges, but this year the national business lobbying group was particularly peeved, ranking the state's high court as No. 6 of seven "Judicial Hellholes."

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Prosecutors won’t be able to present evidence of a pot-growing operation seized from the home of a former Missouri professor whose attempt at humor on Facebook led authorities to investigate him as a potential terrorist.

Kansas City attorney Steve Bough, whose nomination had appeared troubled this year, received a 51-38 vote in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday night. (Updated)

Attorneys reached a tentative settlement on Tuesday for a class action lawsuit against aerospace company Lockheed Martin over alleged mismanagement and excessive fees in its 401(k) plans.

The Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday set a Jan. 28 date for the execution of Marcellus Williams.

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