For Missouri students, cellphone debate isn't academic

Saturday, December 17, 2011 | 4:48 p.m. CST; updated 5:10 p.m. CST, Saturday, December 17, 2011

ST. JAMES — The text was about something innocuous: A request to go to the county fair. It set off a highway pileup that took two lives, injured dozens and left two school buses and a pickup truck in a crumpled heap.

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