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Relatives are suing over the death of a former eastern Missouri sheriff’s deputy who hanged himself while jailed on sexual assault charges. The wife of Marty Rainey and her children filed the wrongful death suit Friday in federal court. It ...

A more than $1 billion defamation trial over ABC news reports on a South Dakota meat producer’s lean, finely textured beef product started Monday with attorneys giving different versions of the company’s decline. Dakota Dunes-based Beef Products Inc. sued the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a Missouri technical college’s challenge of a ruling that its mandatory drug testing policy is unconstitutional when applied to all students. The nation’s highest court refused without comment to intervene at the ...

In a new case about digital age technology and privacy, the Supreme Court will consider whether police need warrants to review cellphone towers records that help them track the location of criminal suspects. The justices agreed Monday to hear an ...

President Donald Trump lashed out at his own Justice Department Monday for seeking the Supreme Court’s backing for a “watered down, politically correct version” of the travel ban he signed in March instead of a broader directive that was also ...

Federal authorities are investigating dozens of new cases of possible opioid and other drug theft by employees at Veterans Affairs hospitals, a sign the problem isn’t going away as more prescriptions disappear. Data obtained by The Associated Press show 36 ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether Ohio wrongfully purged eligible voters from the state’s registration list. The justices said they will hear an appeal from state officials defending the process against challengers who say it’s illegal. Civil ...

A class-action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of about 80 inmates serving life sentences in Missouri for crimes they committed as minors, alleging the state’s parole process fails to give them a fair chance to be released. The MacArthur ...

American Jews gathered Thursday to wrestle with how they should confront an election-year surge in anti-Semitism, a level of bias not seen in the U.S. for decades. At a national meeting of the Anti-Defamation League on Thursday in New York, ...

Volkswagen will spend more than $15 billion to settle consumer lawsuits and government allegations that it cheated on emissions tests in what lawyers are calling the largest auto-related class-action settlement in U.S. history. Under the settlement revealed Tuesday by a ...

This is the second in a three-part series. As darkness falls, the most tattered section of West Sacramento, California’s main drag feels more desperate with each passing hour. Under the cover of night, a slow but steady flow of wandering ...