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Requiring people who are HIV-positive to inform their sexual partners about their disease does not violate constitutional protections of free speech or privacy, the Missouri Supreme Court wrote in a unanimous opinion released Tuesday. The ruling arose from the case of ...

President Barack Obama said Wednesday he would nominate appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, urging Republicans to approve a long-time jurist and former prosecutor known as “one of America’s sharpest legal minds.” Garland, 63, is the chief ...

The Ferguson City Council has unanimously agreed to accept a U.S. Justice Department plan to overhaul its embattled police force and municipal court system after a brief attempt to revise the deal led to a federal lawsuit. Elected leaders in ...

The federal judiciary said Tuesday it won’t permit cameras in trial courts even though a majority of judges participating in a four-year pilot program said they would permit video recording of proceedings if it was allowed. A committee of the ...

A man confined in Fulton State Hospital who was caught in the middle of a disagreement between two Missouri circuit courts must now be released, but could still face jail time for his original charge. Shanon Swickheimer has been held ...

Even before the presidential candidate arrived at the rally, the arena seethed. Fistfights broke out as the national anthem played. Supporters tore up demonstrators’ signs, beat them with sticks, pummeled them with folding chairs. The year was 1968; the candidate ...

Politicians in Mississippi have used campaign money to pay for such things as a BMW, an RV and $800 cowboy boots. In Wisconsin, a railroad executive was caught violating contribution limits after an ex-girlfriend he met on a “sugar daddy” ...

A St. Louis jury on Monday awarded a total of $5.2 million to victims of a tent outside a bar in downtown St. Louis that collapsed in a sudden thunderstorm. The verdict included $2.4 million to the family of a ...

The University of Missouri’s Board of Curators upheld its decision to fire an assistant professor whose run-ins with student journalists and the police during race-related protests last fall drew widespread attention, the university system said Tuesday. The board found that ...

More than 30 judicial nominees could end up as collateral damage in the election-year fight over President Barack Obama’s effort to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court and Senate Republicans’ steadfast opposition. Twenty-eight of Obama’s nominees to district court and ...

Missouri lawmakers during a Monday House committee hearing weighed proposals that would expand gun access on college campuses by allowing people to carry concealed firearms. The bills are among several introduced this year by state Republican lawmakers, who have argued ...