Cape Girardeau MO

Missouri Presbyterian Churches receive threats following same-sex marriage announcement

At least four southeast Missouri Presbyterian churches have received letters threatening to burn their buildings to the ground following the Presbyterian Church USA’s decision to allow same-sex marriages.

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17-year-old Missouri teen pleads guilty to hate crime against lesbian

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- A 17-year-old Missouri teen has pleaded guilty to a hate crime charge in the July 24 beating of a local lesbian resident.

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Teenager ordered tried as adult in alleged hate crime in Missouri

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- A juvenile court judge in Cape Girardeau, Mo., ruled Wednesday that the 17-year-old female suspect in the July 24 beating of a local lesbian resident will be prosecuted as an adult.

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Lesbian couple attacked by neighborhood youth in alleged hate crime

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- A lesbian couple in southeastern Missouri is recovering from an alleged attack by three neighborhood youths in what the couple claims is hate crime motivated by the sibling’s discrimination of their sexual…

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