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An agreement will give consumers who bought nearly 600,000 Volkswagen vehicles rigged to cheat on emissions tests the option of having the automaker buy back the cars or fix them, a judge said Thursday. Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ...

From the start, the case of a rookie police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man in a public housing stairwell never fit neatly into the national debate over police brutality and minorities. And Officer Peter Liang’s sentencing this ...

The U.S. Supreme Court this week declined to review a $12.5 million verdict for a former railroad worker injured in a Jefferson County railyard accident. The February 2014 verdict by attorneys from Schlichter Bogard & Denton in St. Louis was ...

Michael Sam, the first openly gay NFL draftee, slammed a Missouri measure that would shield some businesses that deny services for same-sex weddings, telling fellow opponents Wednesday that it is “the opposite of respect and it is the opposite of ...

Five former employees of imprisoned Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff were convicted at a fair trial, a federal appeals court concluded Wednesday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said evidence offered at a six-month trial that ended in 2014 ...

Missouri lawmakers appear uninterested in Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposal to reduce the business “border war” between the two states. Brownback last week offered to lessen his state’s efforts to lure jobs away from the Missouri side of the Kansas ...

University of Missouri graduate student workers have overwhelmingly voted to unionize. About 84 percent of the 795 graduate students who voted were in favor of allowing the Coalition of Graduate Workers to represent them in collective bargaining. Voting took place ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a judgment allowing families of victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism to collect nearly $2 billion. The court on Wednesday ruled 6-2 in favor of relatives of the 241 Marines who died in a 1983 terrorist attack ...

Missouri lawmakers on Tuesday passed a bill redefining adequate K-12 school funding so the state can spend hundreds of millions of dollars less but still meet the target for fully funding schools. The House voted 116-38 Tuesday to send the ...

Two state regulators and a Flint employee were charged Wednesday with evidence tampering and several other felony and misdemeanor counts related to the Michigan city’s lead-tainted water crisis. The charges — the first levied in a probe that is expected ...

The FBI is facing an increasing struggle to access readable information and evidence from digital devices because of default encryption, a senior FBI official told members of Congress at a hearing Tuesday. Amy Hess said that of the cell phones ...