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Missouri lawmakers are considering how to combat rising levels of opiate addiction — and while some proposals have garnered widespread support, others face challenges over funding and privacy concerns. The House voted 154-2 Thursday to allow pharmacists to sell naloxone, ...

Lisa Van Amburg, chief judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District, declared it a historic moment Thursday when she swore in Jason Sengheiser as a judge. Gov. Jay Nixon appointed Sengheiser as an associate circuit judge in St. ...

Federal and state authorities on Thursday announced a $3.2 billion settlement with Morgan Stanley over bank practices that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis, including misrepresentations about the value of mortgage-backed securities. The nationwide settlement, negotiated by the working group ...

Bills governing seat belt use, texting while driving and helmet requirements for motorcyclists prompted debate in a Missouri Senate committee Wednesday over whether the government should play a larger role in road safety. Two bills — one sponsored by Republican ...

The number of business and interest groups lobbying in state capitols has risen nearly 11 percent in recent years as organizations have shifted some efforts away from the stalemates in Washington to statehouses, which are more apt to act on ...

The Justice Department enters its court fight against the city of Ferguson with the apparent upper hand, given a months-long investigation that found vast problems in the way police and courts treat poor people and minorities in the St. Louis ...

Defiance has often defined Ferguson in the 18 months since a police officer fatally shot Michael Brown and provoked an examination of how poor people and minorities are treated in the St. Louis suburb. The latest defiant act — rejecting ...

Ryan Walsh, a former Bryan Cave attorney, pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to making threats against a former colleague. Walsh was charged in July 2013 with threatening to kill another Bryan Cave attorney. He left a voicemail message, which ...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling Tuesday to stay implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s new regulations for power plants was good news for a Kansas City attorney. Tristan Duncan, partner with Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City, has played ...

A former federal judge who gave a Utah music producer 55 years in prison for bringing guns to marijuana deals asked the president to commute the sentence Tuesday, the latest appeal in a case held up as an example of ...

The administration of President Barack Obama is vowing to press ahead with efforts to curtail greenhouse gas emissions after a divided Supreme Court put his signature plan to address climate change on hold until after legal challenges are resolved. Tuesday’s surprising ...