Planned Parenthood is challenging Missouri’s abortion law, arguing a new provision requiring the same doctor to perform the procedure and discuss state-mandated medical information with patients will cause significant delays to women seeking care.
Read moreAnthem Blue Cross Blue Shield’s policy limiting coverage of emergency room visits for patients in Georgia, Kentucky and Missouri could be putting lives at risk, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians.
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Chicken giant Tyson admitted Wednesday to violating the Clean Water Act by discharging an acidic chicken-feed supplement at a Missouri slaughter and processing plant, killing more than 100,000 fish.
Read moreMissouri’s attorney general will hire an independent investigator to find out if his predecessor withheld evidence before Anthony Lamar Smith’s family settled a wrongful death lawsuit in the case of the black man who was killed by the white policeman who was cleared of a murder charge this month.
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The independent federal commission charged with investigating and reporting on the state of civil rights in the United States has found many cities use fines and fees on low-income communities to raise revenue instead of compliance.
Read moreA St. Louis judge on Friday found a white former police officer who killed a black motorist six years ago not guilty of first-degree murder, prompting fears of protests and riots mirroring those in Ferguson, Missouri, three years ago.
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President Donald Trump came to Missouri on Wednesday to try to drum up support for tax reform, calling it a once-in-a-generation opportunity and saying change was needed to “bring back Main Street.”
Read moreHours before the Show-Me State was set to execute a man Tuesday for a 1998 murder his attorneys claim he did not commit in light of new DNA evidence, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens stayed the execution with an executive order.
Read moreDay two of a former St. Louis City police officer’s murder trial for the killing of Anthony Smith was highlighted by prosecutors questioning fellow officers who responded to the scene.
Read moreMissouri’s attorney general Tuesday asked a federal judge to dismiss Backpage.com’s “frivolous” constitutional lawsuit, saying “compelling evidence” shows that Backpage creates and controls ads “for the sexual exploitation and rape of human-trafficking victims, including minors.”
Read moreA white former St. Louis police officer charged with killing a black man “executed” him after a car chase, then planted a gun in the slain drug suspect’s vehicle as an excuse for opening fire, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday.
Read moreA divided Missouri appeals court ruled that a Kansas City teenager who was born a girl but has been living as a boy since age 9 is not allowed to use the boys’ locker rooms and restrooms at his school.
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Backpage.com has sued Missouri’s attorney general, claiming his demand for information about human trafficking on its website is unconstitutional — a lawsuit the attorney general quickly denounced as frivolous, saying, “there is no First Amendment right to engage in human trafficking.”
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“Dreamers” protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are not entitled to in-state tuition at Missouri colleges, a state appeals court said in a split ruling.
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Westar Energy and Great Plains Energy announced an equal-merger deal Monday that would create a new $14 billion utility servicing Kansas and Missouri.
Read moreA federal judge ruled that robocalls voiced by Mike Huckabee were primarily intended to advertise a movie about freedom of religion, not to conduct a political survey, and therefore violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
Read moreThe Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Monday that Missouri cannot exclude a church preschool from a state program providing grants for playground resurfacing, finding the denial constitutes religious discrimination.
Read moreWell before the late Michael Brown made Ferguson, Missouri, a national symbol for excessive police force, Henry Davis sued three Ferguson police officers for beating him while handcuffed. Now the Eighth Circuit has sided with the officers.
Read moreA Missouri appeals court upheld a $4.85 million racial discrimination award to a white teacher who was fired from Harris-Stowe State University, an historically black college.
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