Missouri lawmakers addressed concerns that a defendant in a child murder case got too good of a plea deal. David Spears ...

Missouri’s “pay-to-stay” law is applied arbitrarily, hurting poor people who lose money they need to get re-established in ...

Republican lawmakers in the Missouri House are standing by the House Budget Committee’s attempt to stall the appropriations ...

Missouri state Rep. Phil Amato (R) has introduced a bill that would require the state to maintain a database to track pregnant women who are at "risk" of having an abortion. The Missouri House ...

Missouri sheriffs are asking the state legislature to address their priorities, including tightening Missouri sentencing laws ...

After a contentious budget committee hearing last Thursday ended with a disagreement in philosophy, there was also an agreement that the Director of the Missouri State Public ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Abortions to resume in Missouri after judge temporarily blocks a restriction that providers say prevented the procedure.

The committee responsible for funding the Missouri State Public Defender’s Office met Thursday (2/13) and after a contentious hearing — refused to hear the ...

James Pointer was in his housing unit at the Moberly Correctional Center when the cap on a femoral catheter became dislodged ...

Estimates project that the number of felons required to serve extended prison terms would more than triple if the bills pass.

An aerial view of Moberly Correctional Center in Randolph County (Missouri Department of Corrections photo ... Pointer, 76, was housed at the Moberly Correctional Center, where the state prison agency ...