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Michigan’s statehouse has been roiled for the past month after an extramarital affair between two lawmakers became public, ultimately leading to both losing their seats. At the same time, two state lawmakers in Minnesota, also married to other people, were ...

Pope Francis has appointed a bishop to the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph in Missouri, permanently replacing a cleric who was convicted of failing to report a suspected child abuser. The diocese announced on its website Tuesday that Bishop James ...

The manufacture of methamphetamine is sharply down in certain Midwestern states that have had the most trouble with the drug over the years, but it remains as popular as ever with users due to an influx of cheap Mexican imports, ...

Not enough Missouri lawmakers appear to support a contentious right-to-work measure to overturn Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of the bill, an Associated Press analysis shows. Interviews with lawmakers indicate House Republicans in favor of right to work are short ...

Clerk Kim Davis returned to work Monday for the first time since being jailed for disobeying a federal judge and said she was faced with a “seemingly impossible choice” between following her conscience and losing her freedom over denying marriage ...

  A reform panel formed after the Ferguson police shooting of Michael Brown is pushing for the consolidation of police departments and municipal courts in the St. Louis area, and decreasing the use of police force. The Ferguson Commission, a ...

St. Louis businessman Kenneth Hutchinson pleaded guilty today to one count of bankruptcy fraud and admitted to lying about his income and assets in his 2014 bankruptcy case filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in St. Louis. Hutchinson, who operated businesses ...

A judge who lifted New England quarterback Tom Brady’s four-game “Deflategate” suspension last week got plenty of advice from the public before he ruled, including from a Nevada teacher who said her sixth graders thought Brady would be “plain stupid” ...

The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday heard oral arguments in a discipline case involving a central Missouri attorney who, along with his now-disbarred son, used a credit card from their former law firm to pay for expenses to start a ...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Thursday that Missouri’s legal climate is “among the worst in the country.” A survey of corporate counsel and company leaders conducted by the chamber’s Institute for Legal Reform ranked Missouri as 42nd out of ...

Authorities just couldn’t seem to agree in a recent attorney discipline case that brought different recommendations from a disciplinary panel and the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel and a 4-3 split decision from the Missouri Supreme Court. The disciplinary panel ...