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The number of February takers of the Missouri bar exam leveled off this year, following a spike in interest in 2015. Yet well over half of those taking the exam were doing so for the first time — the highest ...

Following a $72 million plaintiff’s verdict, another case against Johnson & Johnson went to trial in St. Louis this week over an alleged link between its baby powder and ovarian cancer. In February, a St. Louis jury awarded the $72 ...

Peabody Energy, the nation’s largest coal miner, filed for bankruptcy protection Wednesday as a crosscurrent of environmental, technological and economic changes wreak havoc across the industry. Mines and offices at Peabody, a company founded in 1833 by 24-year-old Francis S. ...

More than 60 businesses including some of Missouri’s biggest corporate names joined a coalition opposed to state legislation that would protect businesses objecting on religious grounds to same-sex marriages, the latest sign of a backlash against such proposals across the ...

Saying he received lots of “feedback and suggestions and opinions” about a law he signed that limits LGBT protections, North Carolina’s governor has ordered anti-discrimination rules be expanded for state employees. Gov. Pat McCrory also wants lawmakers to soon restore ...

Eleven U.S. jail systems will receive millions of dollars in grants to overhaul operations in order to reduce their overall inmate populations — some by as much as one third, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced Wednesday. ...

Nearly 2 in 3 Americans back Democrats’ demands that the Republican-run Senate hold hearings and a vote on President Barack Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court. But an Associated Press-GfK poll also suggests that GOP defiance against considering the nominee may ...

Republican leaders are lauding an aviation policy bill before the Senate as the most passenger friendly in years, but there are limits to friendship. In an election year that has thus far been defined by populist rage, Republicans are walking ...

A former Kansas City attorney has admitted to taking more than $1.2 million from St. Luke’s Health System. Alan B. Gallas, 64, waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to mail fraud. Gallas ...

A longtime Jackson County courts employee is alleging his employer discriminated against him when it hired a younger candidate to oversee the county’s Department of Civil Process. Gary Hartman, execution deputy for the department for 17 years, sued the 16th ...

Missouri House members this week took action to be among the first states to pass laws protecting daily fantasy sports, a business that has fallen under national scrutiny by state lawmakers and attorneys general. Daily fantasy sports sites such as ...