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A severed pig’s head was left outside a mosque in Philadelphia. An Islamic center in Florida was defaced. A Sikh temple in California was vandalized by someone who mistook it for a mosque and left graffiti that included a profane ...

UPDATED A Jackson County judge has ordered a Nashville, Tennessee-based hospital company to pay a Kansas City foundation $433.7 million. The judgment, filed Wednesday afternoon by Judge John Torrence, covers unmet obligations as part of a purchase of non-profit hospitals. ...

The Missouri Supreme Court is weighing whether a gun store can be held liable for selling a pistol to a mentally ill woman who killed her father shortly after the sale. Colby Sue Weathers’ mother had called Odessa Gun & ...

Quicken Loans’ book of employee rules didn’t violate its workers’ free-speech rights because it was irrelevant to daily operations and was largely ignored by staffers, the mortgage giant said. Attorney Russell Linden told the administrative law judge hearing a case ...

A Muslim student at the University of Missouri has filed a lawsuit alleging that a biology professor directed a slew of sexually suggestive and religiously offensive remarks at her. Fatma El-Walid claims in the lawsuit filed Nov. 30 that professor ...

States with large military bases are filling what is traditionally the federal government’s role by picking up the tab for construction and repairs, saying they can’t afford not to. The number of states willing to spend taxpayer money to fix ...

A former campaign aide to Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder was paid at least $60,000 more than originally reported, according to updated finance records filed by Kinder’s gubernatorial campaign. The additional payments to former campaign manager Logan Thompson are among ...

An online journalist remotely covering a major trial in Jackson County Circuit Court has been shut out of access to the proceedings after defense counsel objected to a reader’s comments posted on her website.

The Supreme Court is treading gingerly on a question of immense importance to the nation's growing Latino population: whether states must count all residents, or only eligible voters, in drawing electoral districts.

The 9-year-old Kentucky girl calls the woman “nommy” and bears her middle and last name. They lived in the same household until the girl was 4, and “nommy” once carried the child on her insurance plan. But they are not ...

There’s often little consistency in U.S. cities’ policies on how quickly to release videos of police officers shooting civilians under disputed circumstances, with many municipalities making decisions as they go or waiting to act until political pressure or court rulings ...