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A dispute is erupting among police organizations over new proposals that would govern when officers should use force during violent arrests, amid national outrage over questionable shootings. Groups representing chiefs and rank-and-file sworn officers are pushing back against proposals announced ...

Missouri's Democratic governor pledged Thursday to circumvent the Republican-led Legislature if needed to fill vacancies on the board that oversees the state's flagship university, further escalating the tensions of legislators already frustrated about the handling of racial issues that culminated in the resignations of the system president and campus chancellor.

Maryland’s assault weapons ban implicates its citizens’ core Second Amendment rights and must be reviewed under a more rigorous judicial standard than the one used by a judge who upheld the law’s constitutionality, a divided federal appeals court ruled Thursday. A ...

The Kansas House rejected a proposal Thursday that would give the governor and legislators more control over appointments to the state Supreme Court. The vote on a proposed amendment to the state constitution was 68-54, but supporters were 16 votes short ...

A state Senate committee is considering three bills that would update Missouri’s deadly force laws. The News Tribune reports that the three bills presented to the Judiciary and Criminal and Civil Jurisprudence Committee on Tuesday have slightly different approaches to ...

Infuriating members of Congress, a smirking Martin Shkreli took the Fifth at a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday when asked about his jacking up of drug prices, then promptly went on Twitter and insulted his questioners as “imbeciles.” The brash, 32-year-old ...

The Missouri Supreme Court has placed a Kansas City attorney on interim suspension over allegations that he withdrew funds from clients’ trusts for his personal use. On Monday, the court suspended Dennis J. Campbell Owens from practicing law pending the ...

UPDATED The Missouri Senate voted unanimously Thursday to bar cities, counties and law enforcement agencies from setting traffic ticket quotas, responding to criticism that some communities have been too reliant on raising money from issuing these and other types of ...

Campaign money from shadowy sources is back this presidential election. At least $4 million of it is flowing to outside groups helping White House hopefuls, making it difficult to trace who’s behind the big bucks. Both parties benefit from money ...

A Republican lawmaker wants to make it easier for Missouri women to get birth control. Rep. Sheila Solon told a House committee Wednesday decades of use have shown oral contraception is safe and critical for many people and pharmacists should ...

The Supreme Court’s recent decision to step into a relatively unimportant case involving Microsoft’s Xbox 360 gaming system revealed that Chief Justice John Roberts has sold between $250,000 and $500,000 in Microsoft stock in the past year. Federal judges violate the ...