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Attorney general also announces agreement for Hannah Montana shows

Weeks after deciding in private the effects of a state Supreme Court decision on campaign finance, the Missouri Ethics Commission opened its doors Thursday for a public discussion of the issue. The meeting in Jefferson City spurred robust debate but ...

Kansas woman accused of cutting baby from womb

Historical courthouses will get a $500,000 boost under a program Gov. Matt Blunt unveiled Thursday in St. Charles. The Missouri Heritage Properties Program sets aside $500,000 to preserve such facilities as the St. Charles County Courthouse, which was first occupied ...

U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber refused a request Wednesday to intervene in a Tennessee state court case that levied antitrust and conspiracy claims against Monsanto Co. The judge wrote in his order that while a potential class-action case proceeding ...

A former MetLife Inc. broker was charged Thursday with stealing $250,000 in settlement funds paid to the widow of a Port Authority policeman who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Kevin Dunn, 28, allegedly persuaded the woman, whom ...

A former Morgan Stanley compliance officer got four years of probation, and her husband received three years for passing along inside information that others used to buy and sell stocks. Randi Collotta, 30, also must serve 60 days in custody ...

A judge on Thursday refused to let U.S. Sen. Larry Craig withdraw his guilty plea on charges related to his arrest in a public bathroom, increasing pressure on the Idaho Republican to resign. Minnesota Judge Charles Porter rejected Craig’s claim ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission expanded a seven-month crackdown on the use of “spam” e-mails to inflate stock prices, halting trading in shares of three additional companies. Alliance Transcription Services Inc., Prime Petroleum Group Inc. and T.W. Christian Inc. ...

Fans line up Thursday outside the Sprint Center box office to receive wristbands entitling them to a place in line when tickets go on sale Saturday for the Garth Brooks concert next month. Attorney General Jay Nixon announced legal action ...

Monsanto Co., the world’s largest developer of genetically modified seeds, lost on Thursday its appeal of a court ruling that Syngenta Inc. didn’t violate patents for making corn resistant to Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...