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Gov. Jay Nixon has called on a state agency to use settlement funds to restore areas of southeastern Missouri that were damaged by lead contamination, a move praised by local officials and state lawmakers who for months questioned why money ...

A southwest Missouri school district has a new policy governing bathroom usage for transgender students that some civil rights advocates are calling discriminatory. The Marionville School District recently adopted a policy allowing students to either use a gender-neutral bathroom or ...

Officials were slow to handle racial incidents at the University of Missouri, and that contributed to protests, a student hunger strike, a threatened boycott by the football team and ultimately, the resignations of two administrators. At the University of Oklahoma, ...

The past few years have been a difficult and sometimes humiliating period for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, as one headline-grabbing scandal after another has scuffed its image and thinned its ranks. In 2013, Justice Joan Orie Melvin resigned after being convicted ...

Sometimes family comes first. That’s the priority Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., set before becoming House speaker recently; he warned he’s going to spend weekends with his wife and three children, not political fundraisers. “I cannot and I will not give ...

UPDATED The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday vacated the sentence of death row inmate Reginald Clemons. Clemons was convicted of the April 4, 1991 murders of Julie Kerry, 20, and Robin Kerry, 19, and sentenced to death. He was 19 ...

As a U.S. Marine, Daniel E. DeSmit swore to live by a code of honor. Semper fidelis, always faithful. But DeSmit shattered that pledge repeatedly — directing dozens of live Internet videos of children having sex with each other. DeSmit, ...

A Wisconsin law that requires abortion providers to get admitting privileges at nearby hospitals is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court panel ruled Monday. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel’s 2-1 decision doesn’t put the question to rest. The U.S. Supreme Court ...

An Arkansas judge said Monday that three same-sex couples who sued the state for refusing to name both spouses on the birth certificates of their children can get the documents amended to list both names. Judge Tim Fox did not ...

Fifty years after a St. Louis gospel singer says she was told that her daughter died at birth, and months after the 76-year-old woman learned that her daughter was still alive, a judge is being asked to restore the birth ...

A pending lawsuit by “Into the Wild” author Jon Krakauer will be the nation’s first test following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2012 Obamacare ruling of whether state education officials can use the threat of lost federal funding to justify refusing public ...