Hundreds of homes flooded in four Midwestern states when rivers breached at least a dozen levees after heavy rain and snowmelt in the region, authorities said Monday while warning that floods were expected to linger.
Read moreMissouri unconstitutionally suspends the driver’s licenses of parents who are unable to pay child support, two men claim in a federal class action.
Read moreThe Missouri Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday over whether immunity should be granted to a high school teacher accused of carelessly restraining a combative student, breaking his arm in the process.
Read moreMissouri’s Republican-led House on Tuesday advanced a bill that would ban almost all abortions in the state if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. And if the high court doesn’t switch course, the Missouri bill would ban most abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected: as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
Read moreAttorneys from both sides of the Kansas-Missouri border appeared before the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday to determine which state has jurisdiction over a wrongful death lawsuit about a boy who was starved and tortured by his father and stepmother before his body was fed to pigs.
Read moreA federal judge in Missouri dismissed a lawsuit brought by a lesbian couple who were turned away by a retirement home, finding that the Fair Housing Act does not protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Read moreAn attorney for a Missouri woman allergic to grass argued before the Eighth Circuit on Wednesday that her city’s ordinance requiring her to have grass on her property is unconstitutional.
Read moreAn attorney for a Missouri farmer argued before the Eighth Circuit on Wednesday that a state law allowing police to pull over commercial vehicles and inspect them without cause is overly broad and unconstitutional.
Read moreAn attorney for a St. Louis County homeowner argued before an Eighth Circuit panel Tuesday that his municipality’s limit on the number of signs residents can have on their property hinders his free speech.
Read moreSt. Louis County public defenders who say they have too many cases to guarantee criminal defendants’ rights to effective counsel should have their claims heard by Missouri’s highest court, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.
Read morePresident Donald Trump praised a room full of law enforcement officers, attorneys general and prosecutors Friday during his speech at a national conference on crime prevention, promising to “make America safe again.”
Read moreThe former CEO of a Missouri-based health care charity admitted to playing a role in a political corruption scheme involving the misuse of charity money to pay lobbyists and bribe state lawmakers in Arkansas and Missouri.
Read moreThe captain of a tourist boat that sank in southwest Missouri and killed 17 people, including nine members of an Indiana family, didn’t tell passengers to put on flotation devices or prepare them to abandon ship even after waves crashed into the boat during a severe storm, according to an indictment released Thursday.
Read moreIn the Midwest, Democrats lost crucial Senate seats in Indiana and Missouri, giving Republicans firm control of the U.S. Senate, but Democrats racked up victories in hotly contested races for U.S. House seats.
Read moreThe Supreme Court struggled Tuesday with the claims of a man of death row who says his rare medical condition will make lethal injection severely painful under Missouri’s execution method.
Read moreAdmitting his candidate isn’t perfect, a union worker in deep-red Missouri says Democrat Claire McCaskill cares about working families and deserves to hold on to her Senate seat in her neck-and-neck battle with the state’s Republican attorney general.
Read moreThree farmers who pleaded guilty Friday in a large-scale organic grain fraud scheme were lured into participation by a Missouri businessman who was its mastermind, a defense lawyer said.
Read moreA libertarian law firm claims in court that an executive order implemented by Missouri Governor Mike Parson and the state ethics commission banning all gifts, including written materials, to certain government officials violates its constitutional rights.
Read moreThe city of Ferguson, Missouri, fought at the Eighth Circuit on Friday to toss claims that it runs a debtor’s prison for people too poor to pay traffic tickets.
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