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An Alabama judge on Thursday threw out the state’s system for imposing the death penalty, the same day Florida lawmakers passed a bill to revamp a similar sentencing mechanism. Jefferson County Circuit Judge Tracie Todd sided with defense attorneys who ...

Missouri lawmakers have passed a bill requiring public employees’ to give permission every year for union dues to be withheld from their paychecks. The House voted 109-49 Thursday to send the legislation to Gov. Jay Nixon. The Senate passed the ...

  Reginald Clemons appeared in St. Louis Circuit Court this week to determine counsel for his capital double-murder retrial, but no decision was made and the delay is likely not the last complication for attorneys on both sides. The case ...

  Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Thursday that the prospects for a safe future are “greatly diminished” if Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee for president. Speaking at the University of Utah, Romney warned a packed auditorium that ...

A federal jury has rejected a lawsuit filed by a man who claimed Ferguson police beat him while he was handcuffed in 2009. The jury on Wednesday ruled in favor of police and against Henry M. Davis, formerly of St. ...

The possibility of Donald Trump as Republican nominee — and perhaps president — is suddenly very real for the GOP in Congress. After months of denial that the billionaire businessman could swipe the nomination from more establishment candidates, disconsolate Republican ...

  U.S. productivity fell in the final three months of 2015 at the sharpest pace in nearly two years, though the decline was not as large as first reported. Labor costs jumped in the fourth quarter at the fastest pace ...

  Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of profiles of potential nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court, following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.   Sri Srinivasan, a federal appeals judge who was born in India and grew ...

For a clue on how the Supreme Court may decide a major abortion case it heard Wednesday, look to its impending decision in a fight over abortion clinics in Louisiana. The justices may not decide the high-profile case about regulation of ...

Reginald Clemons appeared in St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison’s courtroom Wednesday at a hearing meant to determine his counsel for his new double-murder case, but no decision was made. Clemons was convicted of the April 4, 1991 murders of ...

Shares of agricultural business giant Monsanto tumbled Wednesday after the maker of biotech seeds slashed its 2016 profit guidance due to a dimmer outlook for its product sales. A combination of headwinds, including pricing pressures and unfavorable foreign exchange rates, ...