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Giving no indication of yielding to pressure, North Carolina’s Republican leaders called a federal warning about the legality of the state’s new law limiting LGBT anti-discrimination rules a broad overreach by the government. Gov. Pat McCrory and top state legislators ...

A federal judge who ruled last year that the federal government is responsible for some of the flooding that hit the New Orleans area after Hurricane Katrina and other storms granted class-action status in the case Wednesday, meaning numerous property ...

A quadriplegic Kansas City Public Schools guidance counselor was awarded $806,075 in damages Wednesday following an eight-day disability discrimination trial in Jackson County Circuit Court. The jury awarded plaintiff Joseph D. Baldridge $230,000 in compensatory damages and $576,075 in punitive ...

Sipping filtered city water to show it’s again drinkable, President Barack Obama promised Wednesday to ride herd on leaders at all levels of government until every drop of water flowing into homes in Flint, Michigan, is safe to use. He ...

The Missouri Legislature passed a bill Wednesday that would require voters to show photo identification at the polls, sending the proposal to Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon with enough support to overcome a possible veto. If the bill makes it past ...

The Missouri House voted Wednesday for legislation that would change how public union members pay dues, the first step to overriding a veto by Gov. Jay Nixon. Instead of automatically paying union dues and fees through paycheck withholdings like is ...

A new security pavilion was dedicated Wednesday at a federal courthouse where high-profile terrorism trials have taken place blocks from where the Sept. 11 attacks downed the 110-story twin towers of the World Trade Center. Multiple airport-style screening machines await ...

A federal judge said Wednesday he may order Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton to testify under oath about whether she used a private email server as secretary of state to evade public records disclosures. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. ...

Missouri voters could decide whether to re-impose limits on the large amounts of money flowing to political candidates and committees. Supporters of campaign contribution limits said Wednesday they had submitted more than 272,000 petition signatures to try to get a ...

A mother from suburban St. Louis alleged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that her 9-year-old son is prohibited from transferring to a city charter school because he is black. The lawsuit in U.S. District Court was filed on behalf of ...

A St. Joseph attorney received a reprimand from the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday in connection with a 2014 domestic assault conviction. John M. Spencer, 43, of Tieman, Spencer & Hicks pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of third degree ...