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Operators of a Kansas City-area based payday lending scheme would be banned from offering loans under a settlement that also would wipe away outstanding consumer debts. The Federal Trade Commission said the settlement, which was announced Tuesday and for which ...

Economic development, infrastructure and public safety were top concerns as U.S. mayors summed up the state of their cities this year, but current events helped frame those longstanding issues in discussions of race and inequality, a new study finds. Remarks ...

At least two judges in southern Missouri have opted to not marry any couples, gay or straight, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to legalize marriages between same-sex couples, which overturned the state’s 2004 voter-approved constitutional ban. Laclede County Associate ...

The number of people seeking unemployment benefits rose last week to the highest level since late February. But the increase likely reflected temporary auto plant shutdowns rather than any underlying labor market weakness. The number of people filing applications for ...

The nation’s head of urban housing policy announced new regulations Wednesday aimed at fulfilling promises of the 1968 Fair Housing Act by promoting racially integrated neighborhoods. “The truth is for too long federal efforts have often fallen short,” Housing and ...

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is expected to sign into law the first significant measure state lawmakers have taken to address concerns raised after the fatal police shooting of a black 18-year-old in Ferguson. Nixon is scheduled to announce action on ...

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri says she supports efforts to have President Barack Obama revoke Bill Cosby’s Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment advocacy group launched the campaign Wednesday, saying it is working with women who ...

Louisiana prison officials don’t have to air-condition death row at the state penitentiary in Angola, but they do have to provide some relief from the heat for three condemned inmates suffering from high blood pressure and other illnesses, a federal ...

A new Missouri policy to require increased response to allegations of children sexually assaulting other minors was signed into law Wednesday by Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon. Once the measure takes effect Aug. 28, the state Children’s Division must report claims ...

A lawsuit filed in Cole County on Thursday has turned typical challenges to Missouri’s execution protocol on their ends. Instead of disputing the legality of the process, four plaintiffs are challenging it through taxpayer standing. “We brought this case because ...

U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh Jr. on Wednesday ruled in favor of former Anheuser-Busch employees who said the company didn’t deliver on pension increases promised when their jobs moved to another company. In light of the ruling the company needs ...