A Washington Post reporter was arrested Wednesday at a McDonald’s in Ferguson, Missouri, while charging his cellphone. He says police asked him for identification; ordered him to stop recording video;…
Updated: Another night of confrontations between police and protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, is raising questions about the town’s response to unrest after an officer’s shooting of an unarmed teen.
The family of a Missouri teen killed on Saturday in a police shooting has hired a lawyer who represented the family of Trayvon Martin, while the NAACP called for calm…
A Missouri inmate was executed early Wednesday in a lethal injection procedure that took 10 minutes, a marked contrast to the nearly two-hour execution of an Arizona inmate last month.
A Missouri woman whose husband and two young children died when they took shelter from a massive Joplin tornado at a local Home Depot in 2011 has filed a wrongful…
A disbarred Missouri lawyer who temporarily disappeared has pleaded guilty to fraud charges stemming from allegations that he obtained money using his mother’s identity and stole client funds.
An inmate who filed a handwritten federal lawsuit in 2009 alleging that Missouri prison employees had failed to provide him with toothbrushes and toothpaste has settled his case on the…
A man who broke into a Missouri prosecutor’s home last year, vandalizing it and nearby property as he drove around in the prosecutor’s two vehicles, has been sentenced to prison…
A 64-year-old graduate of Washington University School of Law has pleaded guilty to three federal bank robbery counts and admitted shooting a Missouri state trooper.
Two mistrials were declared last week, on two successive days, after Derek Hubbard reportedly created a courtroom disturbance on Monday and then created another disturbance and attacked his public defender…
A former paralegal for a Missouri criminal defense attorney has taken a plea in a convoluted fake-bribery case linked both to a client of her ex-boss and a St. Louis…
A federal judge has issued a stay of execution for a Missouri inmate because of evidence suggesting that correctional officials tried to intimidate a prison laundry director who supported the…