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The Republican-led Missouri Senate for the first time in years debated a bill to repeal the state’s death penalty, though the measure is unlikely to advance. A bipartisan group of lawmakers to implored their colleagues Monday to end capital punishment. ...

In stark contrast to sentimental ads from the NFL repeating the tagline “NFL is family” that aired during the Super Bowl on Sunday, viewers in the St. Louis area also saw a harsh criticism of the league from local attorney ...

Missouri state Rep. Genise Montecillo said nothing publicly for more than six months about the June day she tried to kill herself. Montecillo wanted to keep that a secret, like the emotional abuse and neglect she said she suffered as ...

A new Missouri law overhauling the state’s municipal courts and police departments violates the separation of powers, defies the state constitution’s limits on unfunded mandates and unfairly singles out the St. Louis area, an attorney representing 12 St. Louis County ...

If you wear combat fatigues to work, then your nomination is almost sure to sail through the Senate. If not, you’re likely in for a long wait. In just a week, senators confirmed Army Lt. Gen. John W. “Mick” Nicholson ...

A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction striking down Nebraska’s now-negated constitutional ban on gay marriage and civil unions. The injunction, issued Thursday, was largely a formality because of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in late June that legalized gay ...

The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a man who pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for sex but later had the conviction overturned can sue his defense attorney for legal malpractice without being required to prove he’s innocent. In ...

Danika Donatti first met her biological father when he was in hospice dying from complications of a disease she might also carry. Donatti, 18, was adopted shortly after birth. She has known the names of her biological parents since childhood, ...

While there’s consensus in some other Republican-dominated states to ramp-up laws to keep firearms out of the hands of domestic abusers, a Missouri proposal to do that appears to have little chance in the GOP Legislature. Democratic St. Louis Rep. ...

Dozens of farmworkers looked up at the little yellow plane buzzing over the Florida radish field, a mist of pesticide falling from its wings. Farmworkers are supposed to be protected by government rules regulating exposure to toxic farm chemicals. But ...

Chief Justice John Roberts says he is concerned that partisan political battles over Supreme Court nominations have led to a widespread misunderstanding about the role of the court. Roberts told an audience at New England Law School in Boston late Wednesday ...