More than two  years after a wave of sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein ushered in the #MeToo movement, the disgraced movie mogul faces another reckoning: a criminal trial that could him put him behind bars for the rest of ...

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Democratic Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, who is preparing legislation to push colleges to go further in dealing with sexual assaults, said higher fines may be in order for schools that violate federal rules.

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Sen. Claire McCaskill, who is surveying 350 colleges on their sexual-assault policies, said she’s planning to hold hearings later this year when she’ll call victims, administrators and college presidents to testify.

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A federal judge awarded $2 million to a young woman who was sexually assaulted by a former Jackson County sheriff’s deputy. Complicating matters, however, the victim failed to attend the hearing.

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A former employee of Express Scripts claims that her boss, a subdivision president, sexually assaulted and harassed her. Cynthia Booker says that the company ignored her complaints and then retaliated against her. The lawsuit filed Friday in Jefferson Circuit Court in Kentucky alleges in graphic detail that Ronald Allen began to sexually harass Booker in June 2008 and pressured her to have an affair with him. Booker said she eventually relented and had an affair with Allen. Express Scripts, headquartered on the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus, is one of the largest pharmacy benefit managers in the country.

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A former state representative from St. Louis County was found not guilty on Friday of sexual assault charges in Cole County. Clay County jurors took four hours to find Scott Muschany not guilty on Friday of a felony charge of ...

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