Missouri

When federal prosecutors in Los Angeles indicted a Missouri mother last year for committing an Internet hoax that apparently led to the suicide of a 13-year-old girl, they touted the novel legal approach that allowed them to file the case halfway across the country. On Monday, a U.S. district judge indicated they may have gone too far.

A Missouri mother should serve three years in prison for her role in a MySpace hoax on a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide, federal prosecutors said in court documents filed Wednesday in Los Angeles.

Four unbelievable minutes. Two gargantuan free throws. Freshman Kim English came off the bench to "pinch shoot" for the hurting J.T. Tiller and made two free throws with 5.

Wearing flowing robes and thorny crowns, about 400 churchgoers honored a promise to their pastor that they'd dress like Jesus to remind people of Christmas' roots.

A 21-year-old woman accused of sending a vulgar text message to a 17-year-old girl is one of the first cases brought under a Missouri law against cyber-bullying that was inspired by the suicide of a teenage girl.

A Midwestern mother accused of using a fake MySpace account to torment a teenager who later committed suicide thought the plan was a clever and funny way to deal with a girl she suspected was spreading lies about her daughter, according to witnesses Thursday.

Some white union members in the suburbs northwest of St. Louis are blunt about their racism when Gary Booth knocks on their doors. "I am not voting for a black man," they tell Booth, who leads organized labor's Democratic campaign effort in nearly all-white St.

Barack Obama campaigned deep in Republican strongholds in southwest Missouri on Wednesday, stressing economic themes to woo fence-sitters and scoffing at rival John McCain for "tired old answers.