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Missouri law does not allow the state to prosecute a pregnant woman for risking the health of her unborn child, the Kansas City-based Missouri Court of Appeals said Tuesday. The court’s decision didn’t come as a surprise to District Defender ...

A man serving a 22-year prison sentence is back in court again for the way he handled his ex-girlfriend’s dead body. Matt Davis, sentenced to prison two years ago for abandonment of a corpse and drug possession, was back on ...

Republican Gov. Matt Blunt and Democratic Attorney General Jay Nixon will have to prove to state ethics officials why they need to keep millions of dollars in campaign contributions. The Missouri Ethics Commission met Tuesday in Jefferson City and voted ...

A Jackson County judge on Tuesday ordered the Kansas City School Board to allow an election in November that could allow seven schools to move to the Independence School District. Judge W. Stephen Nixon ruled that the Kansas City district ...

Blunt Appoints Jarrett to Public Service Commission Gov. Matt Blunt on Tuesday appointed his former general counsel to the Public Service Commission for a seven-year term. The body regulates investor-owned public utilities in the state. Terry Jarrett, 47, of Jefferson ...

Chief Justice Laura Denvir Stith found broad support Tuesday from the Senate committee that called her to testify in Jefferson City on Missouri’s judicial selection process. All committee members present at the state Capitol hearing – save for committee chairman ...

Appeals court rules unanimously for mom who took drugs

Republican Gov. Matt Blunt and Democratic Attorney General Jay Nixon will have to prove to state ethics officials why they need to keep millions of dollars in campaign contributions. The Missouri Ethics Commission met Tuesday in Jefferson City and voted ...

A Kansas City man serving a 22-year prison sentence is back in court again for the way he handled his ex-girlfriend’s dead body. Matt Davis, sentenced to prison two years ago for abandonment of a corpse and drug possession, was ...

Gov. Matt Blunt on Tuesday appointed his former general counsel to the Public Service Commission for a seven-year term. The body regulates investor-owned public utilities in the state. Terry Jarrett, 47, of Jefferson City, was general counsel for Blunt before ...

An appeals court on Tuesday affirmed a $3.6 million judgment in a fraud and legal malpractice lawsuit against former attorney Charles Polk. A three-judge panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District also turned down two appeals by plaintiff ...