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Eleven U.S. cities have earned a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) inaugural Municipal Equality Index. Eleven U.S. cities have earned a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) inaugural Municipal Equality Index (MEI), which measures a city's support for LGBT rights. Of the 137 municipalities included in HRC's first survey, less than 10 percent received a 100 percent score. Those cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Long Beach, Boston, Cambridge (MA), St. Louis, New York City, Portland (OR), Philadelphia and Seattle. Cities which scored the lowest include Montgomery, Alabama (0%), Avondale Estates, Georgia (8%), Frankfort, Kentucky (0%), Baton Rouge, Louisiana (2%), Pleasant Ridge, Michigan (3%), Jackson, Mississippi (8%), Jefferson City, Missouri (0%) and Cheyenne, Wyoming (0%). Included in the survey are the 50 state capitals, the nation's 50 most populous cities, and the 25 large, 25 mid-size, and 25 small municipalities with the highest propo

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A Missouri teenager who described her experience of killing a 9-year-old girl as "pretty enjoyable" received a life sentence Wednesday, with a chance of parole.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - One of three U.S. students held for several days in Egypt on accusations of throwing petrol bombs at police during pro-democracy protests said on Sunday his jailers had threatened to shoot the Americans and force them to drink gasoline.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Joy Sweeney's Thanksgiving wishes were granted in a predawn email on Thursday notifying her that her son and two other American students arrested on suspicion of throwing gasoline bombs in Egypt would be freed.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Joy Sweeney's Thanksgiving wishes were granted in a predawn email on Thursday notifying her that her son and two other American students arrested on suspicion of throwing gasoline bombs in Egypt would be freed.

An Egyptian official said the students were arrested on the roof of a university building where they were throwing firebombs at security forces fighting with protesters near Tahrir Square. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because there was no authorization to speak to the news media.

KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) - In the face of a lawsuit, a Missouri state senator defended on Saturday a new state law that will prohibit teachers from communicating privately with students over the Internet.

KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) - The cheapest room and board in Jefferson City, Missouri, over the weekend was at the county jail, and 170 people gladly checked in.

KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) - The cheapest room and board in Jefferson City, Missouri, over the weekend was at the county jail, and 170 people gladly checked in.

ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Wednesday restored federal unemployment benefits for 10,000 people in the state whose checks were cut off April 2 by a Republican filibuster in the state senate.

Unemployment rates for metro areas in the Midwest in November, at a glance.

Declining population means fewer House seats, less political clout for struggling Rust Belt. After years of losing residents to more prosperous states, the nation's Rust Belt now confronts another blow to its economic prospects: losing some of its votes in Congress.

Declining population means fewer House seats, less political clout for struggling Rust Belt. After years of losing residents to more prosperous states, the nation's Rust Belt now confronts another blow to its economic prospects: losing some of its votes in Congress.

Republican Sarah Steelman to run for Mo. Senate seat against Democrat Claire McCaskill in 2012. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) ? Former Missouri Treasurer Sarah Steelman says she will challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill in 2012.

13-year-old Missouri boy admits killing mother and stepfather, will be held as juvenile. A Missouri judge ruled Wednesday that a 13-year-old boy who admitted shooting his mother and stepfather to death this summer should be held in juvenile custody indefinitely.

Mo. Senate candidate says outside groups backing her rival aim to 'buy themselves a senator'. Democratic Missouri Senate candidate Robin Carnahan claimed Friday that special interest groups are trying to "buy themselves a senator" by spending millions of dollars on ads attacking her and backing Republican Roy Blunt.

Mo. gov. touts importance of broadband Internet coverage, urges cooperation to expand network. Gov. Jay Nixon is urging government leaders, educators, public safety officials and businesses to work together to expand high-speed Internet access in Missouri.

Republican leader tries to entice voters by offering plum committee seats to GOP candidates. Deep in rural Georgia, the Republican who may become the next speaker of the U.S. House is playing let's-make-a-deal with voters.

County officials object to paying to educate teen accused of killing neighbor in central Mo.. County officials in central Missouri argued Tuesday that they should not be required to pay to educate a 16-year-old girl awaiting trial for the alleged murder of a young neighbor.

Democrats: Mo. GOP Senate candidate illegally employed asylum seeker 20 years ago. The Missouri Democratic Party on Tuesday accused Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Blunt of illegally employing an immigrant 20 years ago who was applying for political asylum. Blunt's campaign denied the assertion and said Democrats were distorting a kind gesture.