Dustin Bibens, 26, was arrested in Stone County, Missouri and charged with seven counts of tampering with a judicial officer ...

A Missouri judge has blocked many of the state's anti-abortion laws. The order Thursday by Jackson County Circuit Judge Jerri ...

W. Brent Powell has served on the Missouri Supreme Court since 2017. He will now serve as chief justice for the next two ...

A Missouri judge blocked many of its abortion restrictions, reimposing a preliminary injunction against them just a little ...

For a second time, a Jackson County judge has issued a preliminary injunction to block enforcement of Missouri’s abortion ...

Retired St. Louis Judge Steven R. Ohmer, who served on the bench in St. Louis courts for 30 years, will hold a hearing ...

A federal appeals court has upheld its decision against two Native American tribes challenging North Dakota's redistricting ...

Missouri is one of only two states in which judges can unilaterally impose the death penalty when a jury deadlocks on capital punishment.

W. Brent Powell will be Missouri's next Supreme Court chief justice, according to a Missouri Courts press release.

In 2008, then-Governor Matt Blunt appointed Powell as a circuit judge in Jackson County and in 2017, then-Governor Eric ...

Powell has been a Missouri Supreme Court Judge since 2017 when he was appointed by then-Governor Eric Greitens. He attended public school in Springfield and Rogersville and graduated from Greenwood ...

The state Supreme Court elects its chief justice on a rotating basis by a vote of all seven judges. Powell received his law degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, and his ...