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A campaign committee in support of medical marijuana in Missouri has hired a prominent political consultant and started raising money for the cause, signs that a medical pot proposal might have a serious chance of making it on the 2016 ...

One congressional committee subpoenaed him. Two others are dangling the promise of immunity to get him to dish about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s email setup. Lo, the IT guy, international man of mystery. The swirling interest around Bryan Pagliano, the former ...

A federal judge cleared the way Wednesday for a legal challenge by congressional Republicans to President Obama’s health care law to proceed. U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary M. Collyer ruled the House can pursue its claim that the administration violated ...

The Justice Department issued new guidance to its prosecutors Wednesday, aimed at encouraging more white-collar criminal and civil cases against corporate executives. The new policies come amid persistent criticism that the Justice Department, even while negotiating multi-billion-dollar settlements with large ...

Kim Tabor sometimes wears a bright orange T-shirt bearing a slogan she’s found herself repeating for weeks: “Hello my name is not Kim Davis.” Tabor works for the Rowan County Circuit Court Clerk, the office that handles court filings. Across ...

After earlier twice reversing his death sentences, the Missouri Supreme Court set an execution date of Nov. 3 for Ernest Lee Johnson, who was convicted of the 1994 murders of three employees at a Columbia convenience store. The U.S. Supreme ...

After a five-day stint in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis will return to work as soon as Friday to face another day of reckoning. The apostolic Christian, now a symbol ...

Missouri’s governor and top law enforcer are asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit by a group of Satanic worshippers who allege the state’s abortion restrictions violate their religious beliefs and should be scrapped. Attorneys for Gov. Jay ...

In a split decision on Tuesday, the Missouri Supreme Court took a pass on a prison inmate’s claim that a judge dismissed his dissolution of marriage petition because he couldn’t attend a hearing. In its 4-3 ruling, the court’s majority ...

Jurors recommended a death sentence Tuesday for the white supremacist who fatally shot three people at Jewish sites in Kansas last year. The jury convicted 74-year-old Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. last week of capital murder for the April 2014 shootings. ...

The family of Freddie Gray, who died after being critically injured in police custody, reached a $6.4 million wrongful death settlement with the city of Baltimore, resolving civil claims about a week after the first hearing in the criminal case ...