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A former assistant U.S. attorney who claimed as long ago as 2001 that he was wrongly being investigated for child molestation has been charged with having sex with two 15-year-old boys in his Town & Country home the past three ...

A Wichita mother claims a foster child repeatedly sexually abused her two children at a Lee’s Summit day care two years ago. In her lawsuit filed this week in Jackson County, Melissa Scales sued Love and Logic Daycare, its owner, ...

An interim House committee studying the Second Injury Fund pressed on with its work Thursday, despite a few employment changes for the people pushing the study. The committee’s chairman, Rep. Steve Hunter, R-Joplin, announced that he was no longer working ...

8th Circuit hears case about fantasy baseball

A former assistant U.S. attorney who claimed in 2001 that he was wrongly being investigated for child molestation has been charged with having sex with two 15-year-old boys in his Town & Country home over the past three years. Eric ...

A sex offender with lung disease should be allowed a hearing to challenge his confinement in a mental-health facility, but the state’s sexually violent predator law is valid, the Missouri Supreme Court said Tuesday. Larry L. Coffman was civilly committed ...

A juvenile who pleaded guilty to publicly displaying explicit sexual material does not have to register on the state’s sex offender list because his plea was entered before the law expanding the registry took effect, the Missouri Supreme Court said ...

The Missouri State Courts administrator will leave his post next month to help Kosovo develop its courts system. Mike Buenger, who has served as Missouri’s top judicial budgeter since 2000, announced Tuesday afternoon he would resign effective July 8 to ...

Two congressional committees subpoenaed President George W. Bush’s former White House counsel, Harriet Miers, and his ex-political director, Sara Taylor, to testify about their roles in the firings of U.S. attorneys. The House and Senate Judiciary Committees also demanded the ...

The White House political director criticized the Justice Department and its No. 2 official early this year for their response to the furor over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, newly released documents show. Sara Taylor, who left the Bush ...

St. Louis has tried for years to get lead paint removed from the walls of hundreds of old buildings in the city. If only the legal theory about who’s responsible for that paint had the same sticking power. The Missouri ...