A 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 has been sentenced to life in prison with possibility of parole.

Extreme weather made life miserable from one end of the United States to the other, with people forced out of their homes by wildfires and major flooding.

A US radio talk show host was today arrested on murder charges for allegedly poisoning his wife with anti-freeze.

JEFFERSON City police were yesterday investigating why a Missouri plant employee shot and killed three co-workers and wounded five others on Tuesday night, before apparently fatally shooting himself.