Missouri Murder

No one had heard from them in days. Harley Michael Million, Samara Fontaine Kitts and the couple's 17-month-old daughter, Willa, were reported missing from their home in southeastern Missouri, not far from the foothills of the Ozarks.

A teen reunited with her birth mother last year on an isolated farm in Missouri - only to be tortured there, forced to crawl through hog pens and have salt rubbed in her wounds, and then finally murdered last month and burned in a fire pit.

The US Supreme Court halted late Tuesday the scheduled execution of a convicted murderer, saying his lethal injection should be delayed pending a ruling on whether his medical condition would cause undue suffering.

Nine people are dead following a mass murder in rural Missouri in which the suspected gunman took his own life, police in the Midwestern state said today.

A national coalition of activists on Tuesday rejected calls to suspend anti-police protests in New York after two officers were murdered and called for a mass demonstration on New Year's Eve.

New York was reeling on Sunday after the murder of two uniformed cops by a man who said he was seeking revenge for the recent killings of unarmed black men by police.

Police say an 88-year-old central Missouri man accused of fatally stabbing his 86-year-old wife told investigators he didn't want the couple to be a burden on their family.

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew in Ferguson, Missouri in response to looters after racial tensions boiled over once more in the wake of the police shooting of an unarmed black teen.

A court in Missouri on Tuesday ordered an 11th-hour stay of execution for a convicted murderer and rapist who argued that a rare medical condition risked making the lethal injection unconstitutional.

Two Americans were executed on Wednesday, one in the state of Missouri and the other in Florida, each for the murder of a couple.

A central Missouri teenager who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing a 9-year-old girl because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Alyssa Bustamante, 18, pleaded guilty in January to second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the October 2009 slayin...

No one had heard from them in days. Harley Michael Million, Samara Fontaine Kitts and the couple's 17-month-old daughter, Willa, were reported missing from their home in southeastern Missouri, not far from the foothills of the Ozarks.

A teen reunited with her birth mother last year on an isolated farm in Missouri - only to be tortured there, forced to crawl through hog pens and have salt rubbed in her wounds, and then finally murdered last month and burned in a fire pit.

The US Supreme Court halted late Tuesday the scheduled execution of a convicted murderer, saying his lethal injection should be delayed pending a ruling on whether his medical condition would cause undue suffering.

Nine people are dead following a mass murder in rural Missouri in which the suspected gunman took his own life, police in the Midwestern state said today.

A national coalition of activists on Tuesday rejected calls to suspend anti-police protests in New York after two officers were murdered and called for a mass demonstration on New Year's Eve.

New York was reeling on Sunday after the murder of two uniformed cops by a man who said he was seeking revenge for the recent killings of unarmed black men by police.

Police say an 88-year-old central Missouri man accused of fatally stabbing his 86-year-old wife told investigators he didn't want the couple to be a burden on their family.

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew in Ferguson, Missouri in response to looters after racial tensions boiled over once more in the wake of the police shooting of an unarmed black teen.

A court in Missouri on Tuesday ordered an 11th-hour stay of execution for a convicted murderer and rapist who argued that a rare medical condition risked making the lethal injection unconstitutional.

Two Americans were executed on Wednesday, one in the state of Missouri and the other in Florida, each for the murder of a couple.

A central Missouri teenager who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing a 9-year-old girl because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Alyssa Bustamante, 18, pleaded guilty in January to second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the October 2009 slayin...