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A Utah man who once ran for Congress in Missouri may have committed commercial terrorism when he repeatedly stole and disposed of a rival tourism business’s brochures, authorities say. Scott Jay Eckersley pleaded not guilty to multiple felony charges after ...

It will be up to Congress and the states to respond should the Supreme Court annul federal subsidies that are a cornerstone of President Barack Obama’s health care law, the administration’s top health official told Congress on Wednesday. In her ...

A judge’s decision to dismiss three jurors in the Colorado theater shooting trial after learning they had been exposed to news reports about the case shows how hard it is to protect jurors from the vast coverage of the trial, ...

Albert Woodfox once told a friend after languishing for decades in isolation that he would not be broken — but friends and supporters worry about the toll it has taken on his mind and body. The 68-year-old Woodfox is the ...

Pope Francis has created a new Vatican tribunal section to hear cases of bishops accused of failing to protect children from sexually abusive priests, the biggest step the Holy See has taken yet to hold bishops accountable. For years, the ...

The Ferguson City Council appointed retired St. Louis Circuit Judge Donald McCullin as the new municipal judge for the city effective Wednesday, a press release said. The city said McCullin would replace Judge Roy Richter of the Court of Appeals ...

A Missouri judge declared a mistrial Tuesday for a suburban Kansas City lawyer accused of fatally shooting the girlfriend of her millionaire father, then forging documents to have the man taken off life support when he survived the attack. Susan ...

A Missouri man who killed his girlfriend and her 2-year-old daughter with a butcher knife was put to death Tuesday. Richard Strong, 48, was executed at the state prison in Bonne Terre for the deaths of Eva Washington and her ...

A government plan to wipe out loans for many of the students who attended the now-disgraced for-profit Corinthian Colleges raises serious questions about whether the White House or Congress should have done more to prevent the debacle. Education Secretary Arne ...

Vincent Bugliosi, a prosecutor who parlayed his handling of the Charles Manson trial into a career as a bestselling author, has died, his son said Monday night. He was 80 years old. Bugliosi, who had struggled with cancer in recent ...

Albert Woodfox, the last of three high-profile Louisiana prisoners known as the “Angola Three,” could walk free within days after a federal judge ordered state officials to release him immediately. U.S. District Judge James Brady, the judge overseeing the closely ...