Missouri

Not every student dreads the first day of school. Sure, there are books, tests and homework on the horizon, but for some there's also a whole new world of discovery.

Two police officers were shot in Ferguson, Missouri overnight as hundreds of protestors gathered outside the town's Police Department to celebrate the resignation of Police Chief, Tom Jackson.

Having just moved in to a new house, I'm HYPER-sensitive to different, new sounds and creeks I hear. Is it vermin? Is it haunted? Did someone break in? Crazy, I know. Welcome to my brain. But this kind of thing could get me to think about packing up again...

Just before the Fourth of July, a 43-year-old Missouri woman went to a water park with her family. Madelyn Sheaffer wore a string bikini...and was flaunting her new self as she had just lost about 100 pounds!

UPDATE 11:20: The networks have announced that Barack Obama will be reelected to a second term, after wrapping up the state of Ohio. The 2012 presidential election between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will finally conclude tonight, as voters head to their local polls to choose who gets to sleep in the White House on January 20, 2013. We'll be following all the results very closely, adding the late

Election Day is finally here, and unfortunately it's not a national holiday so you still have to go to work or pick the kids up from school or any number of routine activities that take up precious time you might need to get to your polling station...

Labor day weekend is a great time to go out on the boat with friends and have a good time. For seven people who decided to take the speed boat out this past Friday in Missouri, things didn't go so great.

What's in a name? Well this Fourth of July it has special significance for towns accross America!   31 is the number of places nationwide with "liberty" in their name. The most populous one is Liberty, Missouri (29,149). Iowa has more of these places than any other state: four (Libertyville, New Liberty, North Liberty and West Liberty).