Following a federal court ruling in Kansas City, Jackson County for the first time on Friday began allowing same-sex marriages. By day’s end, a retired Jackson County judge had performed a dozen gay marriages in the legislative chambers of ...

St. Louis city on Wednesday began issuing marriage licenses to gay couples but Jackson County judges are awaiting a ruling in a local federal case. The St. Louis action came after a St. Louis state judge ruled that Missouri’s 2004 constitutional ...