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A 30-year-old St. Charles woman accused of having sex with her child’s 12-year-old friend has been sentenced to nine years in prison. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Nicole Marie Smith pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of statutory rape and ...

A federal lawsuit accuses a St. Louis-area school district of failing to protect a former student from being sexually assaulted by a teacher. The lawsuit filed in St. Louis on behalf of the woman now in her 20s alleges Fox ...

A Jasper County judge says three recent appointments to the Joplin Board of Education did not violate state statute. The Joplin Globe reports  Jasper County Judge Stephen Carlton ruled Tuesday that the Jasper County Commission’s three appointments to the school ...

South Carolina lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to consider removing the Confederate flag from their Statehouse grounds and other politicians took aim at Civil War-era symbols across the South, saying change is imperative after police said nine black churchgoers were slain in ...

The Ferguson Commission wants to overhaul St. Louis County’s municipal court system by consolidating operations and eliminating practices that have been labeled abusive. Gov. Jay Nixon appointed the commission during the unrest that following the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael ...

Missouri and Kansas officials are close to an agreement that would end a long-running “border war” that saw both states using economic incentives to persuade businesses to move, a Kansas Cabinet secretary said. Kansas Secretary of Commerce Pat George said ...

A celebratory mood filled the air Tuesday at the corner of Big Bend and Manchester Road in Maplewood, where Missouri’s first Tim Hortons store held its opening ribbon cutting ceremony. Mascots from St. Louis’ sports teams danced and clapped as ...

A man who leveraged his lottery winnings into a bank loan is still on the hook for the balance despite competing state laws, the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled Tuesday. In 2006 Gary Michael Clark won the Missouri ...

A man serving a life sentence for the death of a woman whose dismembered remains were found near his rural Pettis County home has died in prison. The Missouri Department of Corrections said Monday that 67-year-old Joseph F. Arbeiter died ...

Senators expressed anger and exasperation Tuesday with both air bag maker Takata Corp. and federal auto safety regulators over a problem with defective air bag inflators that has escalated into the largest auto-safety recall in U.S. history. At least eight ...

A Missouri measure set to take effect this year will ensure restaurant owners are responsible only for collecting income taxes on cash tips workers report to them. The legislation signed Monday by Gov. Jay Nixon is in response to a ...