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Black drivers in Missouri were nearly 70 percent more likely than whites to get stopped by the police last year, marking a slight improvement from the year before but showing there still are significant racial disparities in such stops. State ...

For unaccompanied immigrant children seeking asylum in the U.S., where they apply seems to make a world of difference. Youngsters whose applications are handled by the U.S. government’s regional offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles are far more likely ...

Whether a frozen embryo should be considered a person is at the heart of a case the Eastern District Court of Appeals heard on Wednesday. A St. Louis County circuit court in October ruled that Justin Gadberry and Jalesia McQueen’s ...

Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill on Tuesday rolled out legislation aimed at helping World War II veterans she said were exposed to mustard gas by the military, a practice a daughter of one Missouri veteran said led to chronic health issues ...

A suburban Kansas City woman with a history of shoplifting admitted in court Tuesday that she stole tens of thousands of dollars of clothing and merchandise she was peddling out of her nearly $1 million home. Kelli Bauer, 46 and ...

An Idaho man will spend about four months in jail for taking his pregnant 14-year-old daughter to Missouri and having her marry a 24-year-old family friend who had raped her. The father pleaded guilty to injury to a child last ...

The University of Kansas has asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a former student who alleges she was raped by a football player on the Lawrence campus. In a filing in federal court in Kansas City, ...

The Supreme Court is making it easier for landowners to bring a court challenge when federal regulators try to restrict property development due to concerns about water pollution. The justices ruled unanimously Tuesday that a Minnesota company could file a ...

The Jackson County Legislature has approved a $50,000 settlement with a woman who sued the county over the use of shackles during pregnancy and labor while in the custody of the Jackson County Detention Center. Brenda Hill, a spokeswoman for ...

A World War II veteran who says he was exposed to mustard gas experiments at a one-time southwestern Missouri military camp has had his disability claim denied for the fourth time in two decades. Arla Harrell’s claim was denied April ...

The Justice Department pushed back Tuesday against a Texas judge’s demand that its lawyers attend an ethics course, saying the sanction is inappropriate and could cost the government and taxpayers millions of dollars. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen, who earlier ...