U.S. energy giant Peabody filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last Wednesday. The company had to declare its inability to pay its $10.1 billion debt following low energy sector and drastic plunge of coal price.
Ferguson City Council accepts the terms of the U.S. Government's Police Reform Plan. This is amidst tensions after Michael Brown, an African-American citizen, was killed by a Police Officer.
On Wednesday, a 39-hour Democratic filibuster in the Missouri Senate ended as Republicans forced a vote and approved a proposal to prohibit sanctions against groups and wedding vendors that discriminate same-sex couples for religious reasons.
US Supreme Court made a decision to allow juveniles who committed murder a chance for their sentences to be reevaluated. 13 prisoners from Lancaster Counted might be set free.
Missouri prosecutors will have the murder case of Reginald Clemons re-tried. Clemons, along with three others, were charged of rape and first-degree murder of sisters Julie and Robin Kerry in 1991.
The city ordinance against the exposure of nipples in Missouri has temporarily been halted. In Springfield, Missouri, city leaders have been looking for ways to resolve a recent indecent exposure dispute among its residents.
ACLU and three residents of Ferguson have filed a case to seek a change in the voting system for the school board elections which reportedly undermines the voting power of African-American residents.
More than 100 lawmakers in Missouri call for the firing of a Mizzou assistant professor, Melissa Click, as she was filmed calling for "muscle" to remove student journalists from protests.
Missouri state Rep. Bryan Spencer hopes to stop the use of red light cameras. The Missouri Supreme Court struck down red light camera laws less than five months ago.
A Missouri man has been arrested on suspicion of shooting dead an Illinois college student looking to sell his car to the suspect during a meeting arranged through online classified website Craigslist, police said.
Baltimore erupted in violence on Monday as hundreds of rioters looted stores, burned buildings and at least 15 police officers were injured following the funeral of a 25-year-old black man who died after suffering a spinal injury in police custody.
Three Missouri police agencies have agreed to restrict the use of tear gas as part of a settlement of a lawsuit alleging that officers used heavy-handed tactics to quell protests in Ferguson after a white officer fatally shot an unarmed black teen.
The afternoon before Antonio Zambrano-Montes was shot dead by police after he pelted them with rocks, the farmworker had walked out of a Washington state jail a free man.
Fifty-four years after nine young black men became the first U.S. civil rights protesters to serve jail time for sitting at an all-white lunch counter, surviving members of the group will return to a South Carolina courtroom this month to be exonerated of their crimes.
A member of the grand jury that declined to indict the white Missouri police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black 18-year-old sued the prosecutor in the case on Monday, criticizing the way evidence was presented to grand jurors and seeking court permission to speak publicly about the way the case was handled.
More NBA players joined ongoing nationwide protests against police violence on Tuesday night, as dozens of demonstrators again briefly blocked a California freeway.
A Missouri grand jury voted not to charge a white police officer for the fatal August shooting of an unarmed black teenager, an incident that set off weeks of sometimes violent protests around the St. Louis area, a county prosecutor said on Monday.
Gay marriage advocates won another two victories on Wednesday as the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Kansas to become the 33rd U.S. state where same-sex couples can wed and a federal judge struck down South Carolina's ban.
