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Former U.S. Sen. John Danforth began a new legal career on Wednesday at Dowd Bennett, following his departure from Bryan Cave.

Facing a potentially crowded GOP primary in 2016, Missouri gubernatorial hopeful Catherine Hanaway now has backing from South Carolina’s Republican Gov. Nikki Haley. Haley is scheduled as the keynote speaker during a fundraiser for Hanaway set for June 18 at ...

A nonprofit manager is suing Missouri over a law that deals with issues ranging from fire sprinklers to shingles to initiative petitions, saying it was changed too drastically as it moved through the Legislature and had new provisions pinned on ...

The longest-running lawsuit in Missouri filed by luxury goods maker Coach Inc. over sales of counterfeits wrapped up last week with a $2 million consent judgment. Frison Flea Market in St. Louis County, owner Jack Frison Sr. and vendor Soukeye ...

The Obama administration says a new federal rule regulating small streams and wetlands will protect the drinking water of more than 117 million people in the country. Not so, insist Republicans. They say the rule is a massive government overreach ...

What’s up with Nebraska? The state is among the nation’s most conservative, with Republicans controlling all of state government. But by the time the legislative session had ended last week, lawmakers had repealed the death penalty, legalized licenses for certain ...

A bitter struggle for control over the nation’s oldest synagogue goes to trial this week, with lawyers saying they may use more than 1,000 exhibits dating as far back as 1733. The congregation that worships at the 250-year-old Touro Synagogue ...

Google is making its privacy controls easier to find and understand in an attempt to make the more than 1 billion users of its digital services more comfortable about the personal information that they give the Internet’s most powerful company. ...

The Supreme Court on Monday threw out the conviction of a Pennsylvania man convicted of making threats on Facebook, but dodged the free speech issues that had made the case intriguing to First Amendment advocates. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for ...

A grand jury in Louisiana has declined to indict police officers who held a man down, with officers on top of him, and did not get up even after he told them, “I can’t breathe.” Robert Minjarez Jr., 30, died ...

When Stacey Fifer arrived at the prison one day last September, she was carrying four old photos of women, strangers to one another but bound by terrifying memories of the same man. The criminal investigator had strong suspicions Dwayne Wilson ...