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Ever had a debt collector on your back for money you knew you didn’t owe? Listen to the story of Steven Psaros and take heart. The Great Recession forced Psaros into foreclosure on the house he had bought in this ...

A St. Louis County judge found that an insurance company is not responsible for paying one of the largest plaintiffs wins of 2014. Plaintiff Daniel McCullen had secured a judgment of more than $11 million against Shernaman Enterprises, which does ...

Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and his allies are trying to revive their push to remake Kansas’ courts by stoking public outrage over its recent rulings on abortion and the death penalty. Brownback has repeatedly advocated overhauling how Kansas Supreme Court justices ...

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that people serving life terms for murders they committed as teenagers must have a chance to seek their freedom. The justices voted 6-3 to extend a ruling from 2012 that struck down automatic life terms ...

In what environmentalists hailed as a victory for efforts to curb climate change, an appeals panel in Washington on Thursday rebuffed efforts to delay enforcement of President Barack Obama’s plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions until legal challenges are resolved. ...

An effort to decriminalize polygamy by the family from the TV show “Sister Wives” reached its highest level of the legal system so far Thursday as federal appeals judges questioned a lawyer for Utah about whether the state needs to ...

Relatives of an 18-year-old whose fatal shooting by an off-duty St. Louis police officer led to protests have filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The suit was filed Wednesday in St. Louis Circuit Court on behalf of the parents of VonDerrit ...

Refrain, karaoke lovers, from swooning the bar crowd with tales of discovering your homeroom angel is a centerfold. A national songwriters’ organization sued a handful of bars nationwide this week, accusing them of violating federal law for failing to pay ...

A federal appeals court on Thursday dealt a setback to campaign finance reform advocates in a ruling about who pays for political ads. The ruling upheld a Federal Election Commission regulation that narrows disclosure requirements for corporations and labor groups paying ...

The first bill to pass in the Missouri Senate this session would tighten the courtroom guidelines for expert testimony — a first step, Republican lawmakers said Thursday, toward meaningful tort reform. Senators approved the bill 20-10 and sent it to ...

The Missouri Supreme Court set a May 11 execution date for Earl M. Forrest. Forrest was convicted of the December 2002 shooting deaths of three people. Authorities said he fatally shot Harriett Smith and Michael Wells in Dent County and ...