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He wants meth case moved to St. Louis from Cape Girardeau

The plaintiffs in the federal suit against the city of Valley Park over its immigration ordinances now claim the city destroyed a critical statement Mayor Jeffrey Whitteaker read aloud at a public meeting. It was at a March 5 meeting ...

Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau handed over $1.6 million to the Brazilian government that was illegally transferred to New York by unlicensed money service businesses in the South American country. The money came from $17.7 million Morgenthau froze last year ...

Arthur Bremer, who shot Alabama Gov. George Wallace during a 1972 presidential campaign stop, was freed from prison Friday, 18 years earlier than scheduled, a Maryland official said. “Before dawn, Bremer was released and walked off of the facility,” Mark ...

The New Jersey Assembly will vote to abolish the death penalty in the final weeks of the legislative session before newly elected lawmakers take office in January, Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts said Friday. New Jersey, with eight people currently on ...

Merck & Co., the third-largest U.S. drugmaker, agreed to pay $4.85 billion to settle the majority of claims that it hid the health risks of its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, the company said Friday. The agreement, the largest U.S. settlement this ...

Michael Mukasey, whose statements on torture and interrogation of suspected terrorists touched off a partisan Senate fight, was sworn in Friday as U.S. Attorney General after he overcame opposition from Democrats. The confirmation vote Thursday was 53-40 with six Democrats ...

Bernard Kerik, the former police commissioner under New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani who withdrew his nomination to head the Department of Homeland Security, was indicted by federal prosecutors for fraud. Giuliani, a candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, ...

Gov. Matt Blunt and Attorney General Jay Nixon may be forced to give back millions of dollars they raised in the first half of 2007, the Missouri Ethics Commission decided Thursday. After months of delay, the commission met in Jefferson ...

Barely 30 years old and representing a man charged with killing one of Missouri’s prominent black leaders, Jim Wyrsch did the unthinkable. Wyrsch, only seven years removed from the Georgetown University law school, punched holes in the federal government’s case, ...

The U.S. presidential-campaign financing system spawned by the Watergate scandal is on the verge of collapse, with the death blow delivered by Democrats who long championed controls on political giving. Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have joined Republicans including ...