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The court has weighed several contentious issues in recent years, including expansion of Medicaid, municipal court reform and the limit of collective bargaining for state employees. It has agreed to take a case weighing the authority of local and state health officials to issue public health orders.

On Jan. 9, Candice Alcaraz, a former assistant district attorney, was sworn in as the first Black female judge in the history of Wyandotte County, Kansas.

Both Missouri and Kansas have non-partisan merit selection systems, although parts of both states still elect judges to office.

The 2022 Kansas Mental Health Summit brought together more than 600 people to address the mental health crisis in the Kansas criminal justice system.

Attorney General Eric Schmitt is using a judge's ruling against state and local public health officials to go after school districts requiring masks.

The Kansas City man has spent 43 years behind bars for a crime prosecutors now say he didn’t commit. A judge is considering whether to set him free, and Strickland’s exoneration, at least partially, depends on his hair.

Judges are likely to hear cases related to the coronavirus vaccines and about whether businesses or health care providers were negligent in how they did their jobs.

A former Kansas City councilwoman is running to unseat Missouri's Republican second-in-command, an unexpected death on the Supreme Court raises questions about politics and the judiciary, and something else about the pandemic: More Americans than ever are leaving urban areas.

A panel that reviews judicial misconduct has ended its investigation of U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia because he resigned, but it said his misconduct…

Segment 1: What is a non-disclosure agreement? After Sen. Elizabeth Warren publicly questioned fellow Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg's…

A federal judge in Kansas City, Kansas, who was publicly reprimanded last year for workplace misconduct is resigning after more than 20 years on the…

Segment 1: Missouri's new rules on bond authorizes judges to look for alternatives to cash bail or confinement. On July 1st, a new rule took effect…