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Attorneys representing the mother of a Congressman and a national animal welfare group made their arguments before the Missouri Supreme Court Wednesday about whether statements made by the group during a political campaign were immune to the woman’s defamation and ...

The Missouri Supreme Court has sent a challenge to the Senate’s video-recording rules down to a lower court for consideration. The move by the high court comes a week after it heard arguments in the case brought by the liberal activist ...

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia liked to drive fast, maybe too fast. He was a stickler for precise language and pulled no punches in his writing. He was demanding as a father and boss, but he also liked to laugh. Those ...

Missouri lawmakers are still grappling with how to address questions about police body camera footage and racial profiling that were raised after the 2014 protests in Ferguson. A Senate panel heard two bills Tuesday that would establish more rigorous training ...

A House panel that proposed cutting money for the University of Missouri to show disapproval of the school’s reaction to protests on campus last fall largely stuck by those cuts on Tuesday. The House Budget Committee maintained a proposed $7.6 ...

With a vow to represent “conservative values” and the backing of the National Rifle Association, Courtney Goodson seemed poised to take advantage of the trend to the political right in Arkansas and become the first woman elected to lead the ...

The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided Wednesday over Texas abortion clinic regulations in its biggest abortion case in nearly a quarter-century. In 90 minutes of intense arguments, the court’s liberals and conservatives signaled that there’s little common ground as they try ...

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended the Missouri law license of Dean Meriwether, who had his license to practice in bankruptcy court suspended by a federal judge in December. Meriwether was the latest attorney from Critique Services to have ...

The 2012 dissolution of a Kansas City law firm is the source of a dispute that is pitting one former partner against another in a Jackson County trial. Opening statements began Tuesday in the case, which centers on the split ...

A Missouri Supreme Court task force on Tuesday made a series of recommendations to reform the state’s municipal courts. Among the recommendations in the 140-page report from the Municipal Division Work Group is that the Supreme Court adopt a rule ...

Missouri lawmakers are looking beyond the usual places for funding road and bridge repairs after they promised to make it a priority this session. In about two weeks, House Republicans hope to send the Senate a budget that includes roughly ...