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A bisexual man charged with shooting a gay man he taunted on a street was found guilty Wednesday of murder as a hate crime despite his assertions that he couldn’t be a bigot because of his own sexual orientation. A ...

Conservative and liberal groups are only beginning their battle over the Supreme Court vacancy, with a smattering of television ads and behind-the-scenes research serving as warning shots in what’s sure to be an expensive fight that will color November’s elections. Activity ...

In the wake of Michael Brown’s death, the federal government wants to require the Ferguson Police Department to check all new hires against a database of officers who have been stripped of their law enforcement licenses for misconduct. The mandate ...

Class-action litigation against H&R Block will be able to proceed following a Western District Court of Appeals opinion handed down Tuesday. The court unanimously upheld a Jackson County judge’s decision denying a motion by the company to compel arbitration in ...

Missouri’s Republican-led Senate on Wednesday advanced a proposal to add greater religious protections to the state Constitution for business owners and individuals opposed to gay marriage after Democrats stalled a vote for about 37 hours. The move marked an end ...

Democrats accused Republicans on Tuesday of taking their cues from Donald Trump after the Senate’s No. 2 Republican said President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court should expect to be treated like a “piñata.” Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said ...

Ferguson is closer to resolving a civil rights lawsuit with the U.S. Justice Department. The City Council in the St. Louis suburb where the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown sparked unrest gave a first reading Tuesday to a measure ...

A prominent Kansas City law firm changed its name on Wednesday and announced it is opening a St. Louis office. Rouse Hendricks German May, a complex litigation defense firm founded in 1992, is now known as German May. Previous name ...

Thirty-six-plus hours of televised debates in the 2016 presidential campaign have brought us Marco Rubio’s robotic moment, Donald Trump’s jaw-dropping sexual innuendo, Bernie Sanders’ dismissal of Hillary Clinton’s “damn emails” and Clinton’s denunciation of Sanders for an “artful smear.” Oh, ...

A former University of Missouri assistant communications professor is appealing her firing last month over her role last year in a race-related student protest, suggesting that her ouster was political. Melissa Click, in a statement Tuesday, insisted her Feb. 25 ...

The Missouri House is sticking with a plan to cut about $7.6 million from the University of Missouri system budget, and on Tuesday lawmakers voted to cut an additional $1 million from the Columbia campus. Lawmakers also amended the $27.3 ...