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New Hampshire voters have made their picks: Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders. They are choices with implications for next-to-vote South Carolina, Nevada and beyond in the 2016 race for president. Here are some takeaways from the results in ...

A woman pleaded with the Georgia Supreme Court not to let the man accused of killing her mother go free because of a judge’s mistake before a jury can weigh his guilt or innocence. The high court on Monday said a ...

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of a southwest Missouri man who told police he had considered committing a mass shooting at a Wal-Mart or a movie theater but changed his mind. Blaec Lammers of Bolivar had ...

The Ferguson City Council has asked the U.S. Department of Justice for seven changes to a deal to reform the city’s courts and policing systems, a move that drew swift criticism from both the department and many residents. In a ...

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a 2014 constitutional amendment does not bar the state from regulating the possession of firearms by nonviolent felons. In two 5-2 decisions, with Judges Richard B. Teitelman and George W. Draper III dissenting, ...

A man convicted of a 1994 homicide in St. Louis is planning to appeal his case after finding video evidence of an interview with his trial’s only eyewitness. Leron Hornaday, who was sentenced to life in prison in the death ...

Attorney General Chris Koster said Monday he’s reached a deal with major tobacco manufacturers to restore $50 million in lost tobacco settlement proceeds to Missouri, but it is contingent on action from the Legislature. Koster said the state will get ...

Maryland lawmakers have a potential quandary on their hands that is rare, if not unprecedented: Can one of their own vote twice on the same bill? At issue is a measure that would allow felons to vote while they’re on ...

An investment banker will pay $850,000 as the last settlement involving lawsuits over bonding for a failed Missouri sweetener factory, Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander announced Monday. Kander said the consent decree involving Memphis, Tennessee-based Morgan Keegan & Co., ...

A terse letter from Andrew Clyde’s credit card-processing company explained it was discontinuing his corporate account because his Georgia firearms business “no longer met our underwriting guidelines.” In a panic, Clyde called three other companies, which denied him, too. After ...

As opioid overdoses increasingly draw attention in Congress and statehouses across the U.S., Missouri lawmakers are again considering a proposal for a prescription monitoring program that would bring the state in line with all others. Missouri is the only state ...