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Wednesday, May 22, 2013  Groups with tax-exempt status must have educational, charitable, religious or other charitable purposes and cannot be involved in elections or engage in substantial lobbying activity.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013  Justice investigating IRS targeting of tea party; government watchdog blames lax management

Tuesday, May 14, 2013  Acting IRS commissioner repeatedly failed to tell Congress that tea party groups were targeted

Friday, March 15, 2013  The Missouri Division of Workforce Development will close five career centers on April 30th.

Friday, March 01, 2013  Obama, in broad legal opinion, urges Supreme Court to overturn California gay marriage ban

Monday, February 25, 2013  Updated with video: Undeclared horse meat found in Swedish meat balls for Ikea stores in Czech Republic

Friday, January 18, 2013  A Cole County woman who assaulted an elementary teacher was sentenced to four years in prison.

Friday, October 05, 2012  Officials in a southeastern Missouri city have quickly reversed their ban on door-to-door trick-or-treating. But children in Caruthersville will have to be accompanied by an adult when they go roaming for candy on Halloween.

Friday, September 21, 2012  Kansas City police are looking for clues about who brutally beat a 44-year-old disabled veteran inside the group home where he lives.

Friday, July 13, 2012  A python is captured but authorities in the southeast Missouri town of Caruthersville are still looking for a big boa constrictor that is missing from a home.

Monday, May 21, 2012  Ex-Rutgers student who spied on his gay roommate gets 30 days in jail - far less than the max

Saturday, March 17, 2012  Jason Russell, the most public face of Invisible Children, was briefly detained by police and hospitalized after witnesses saw him running through streets in his underwear, screaming and banging his fists on the pavement.

Friday, March 16, 2012  Former Rutgers student convicted of hate crime, invasion of privacy in webcam suicide case

Tuesday, February 28, 2012  Former defendant due back on stand for second day in Rutgers webcam spying trial

Saturday, February 25, 2012  A prosecutor told jurors that Dharun Ravi, now 19, spied on roommate Tyler Clementi and acted maliciously "to deprive him of his dignity."