One of the top prospects in the state of Missouri, tight end Brendan Scales made a late switch from Alabama to his home-state school. The final days of the recruiting process weren’t easy for ...

Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other ... lay north of the dividing line legislated by the Missouri Compromise, they were already off limits to slavery.

Was the Missouri Compromise, which allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, an example of that progression of our founding ideals, or was it a step backward? Was Congress ...