A 21-year-old man from Clubb, Missouri, was killed in a traffic accident late Tuesday night on Highway 34, east of County Road 215A in Wayne County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported that the crash occurred at approximately 11:43 p.m. Kenneth G. Hunden was driving a 2007 Chevrolet Suburban eastbound when he lost control of […]
A 67-year-old man from Taylor, Missouri, was injured in a single-vehicle accident on Highway 24 near West Quincy on Tuesday night. The crash occurred around 10:00 p.m., according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The driver, identified as Robert W. Fry, was traveling eastbound in his 1998 Buick Park Avenue when he lost control of […]
A fatal accident occurred on June 24, 2024, at approximately 12:15 p.m. on Missouri 82, east of NE 775 Road, two miles east of Osceola, Missouri. The crash involved a 1999 Oldsmobile Alero driven by a 16-year-old male juvenile from Osceola, Missouri. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the vehicle was traveling eastbound when […]
Missouri State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick announced that his office will thoroughly examine the decision-making of the St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Authority (RSA) regarding the expenditure of over $16 million in taxpayer funds in an effort to retain the Rams football team in St. Louis. The audit, which began with an entrance meeting with […]
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his office assisted the Warren County Prosecuting Attorney in securing a 150-year prison sentence for Michael Moll for his repeated failure to register as a sex offender. “As a former prosecutor and now as your Attorney General, I look for every opportunity to protect Missourians, especially from sexually […]
A watercraft accident occurred on the Meramec River upstream of the Highway O bridge involving a 1991 Weldbilt 160 boat, resulting in serious injuries to the operator. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol report, Kienan M. Sullivan, a 29-year-old male from St. Clair, Missouri, was operating the boat in a northbound direction. Sullivan was […]
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that the Eastern District of Missouri granted his motion to block Joe Biden’s latest student loan cancellation scheme. The lawsuit targeted the federal government’s “SAVE” Plan, which would have cost Americans $475 billion—$45 billion more than the previous plan. The court order prevents the student loan cancellation scheme from […]
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) urges Missourians to take precautions as heat and humidity rise to dangerous levels. In 2023, 34 Missouri residents, ranging in age from 11 months to 96 years, died due to heat-related illness. “Heat and humidity can place a lot of stress on the body,” said DHSS […]
U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Monday sentenced a woman who was caught with a gun and drugs to seven years in prison and ordered her to pay a $15,000 fine. Judge Schelp also ordered Charity Ward’s sentence to run consecutive to any sentence she receives for pending cases in St. Charles County Circuit […]
A Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine in Greene County, Mo., and illegally possessing firearms. Justin Thomas Hollingsworth, 40, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Brian C. Wimes to 18 years in federal prison without parole. On Aug. 23, 2023, Hollingsworth […]
A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court for his role in a conspiracy in which five men broke into numerous vehicles in the Westport entertainment district and elsewhere in the metropolitan area and stole more than 100 firearms, which they later sold on their social media accounts. Bobby Lamb, 22, was sentenced […]
A collision occurred at 11:00 p.m. on June 24, 2024, on Highway 63, half a mile south of Queen City, Missouri. The accident involved a 2015 Ford Explorer and a 2004 Ford F-250, both totaled and towed by Lakeside in Memphis. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the 2015 Ford Explorer, driven by a […]
An all-terrain vehicle accident on a private property along County Road 297, approximately 2.5 miles south of Durham, resulted in serious injuries for a local woman on the evening of June 24. At around 7:30 p.m., a Yamaha Grisley ATV, driven by Adam Mast, 35, of Durham, Missouri, lost control and overturned. The incident led […]
A Hollywood, Florida, man died in a mower accident in Lafayette County on June 22 at 3:47 p.m. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Mark A. Ulrich, 68, was operating a 2021 Zero-Turn Bad Boy Mower on Oakland School Road when the vehicle overturned and came to rest on top of him. Ulrich was […]
(Missouri Independent) – Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Friday signed legislation that offers hundreds of millions of dollars to the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals to relocate from Missouri. The legislation, an expansion of one of the state’s tax incentive programs, could help finance up to 70% of the cost for one or both teams to […]
Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft has awarded over $381,000 in grants to assist local governments with records management and preservation projects for the coming fiscal year. According to statute 109.221.6 RSMo, the Local Records Grant Program issues reimbursement grants, of up to $20,000, for approved projects. These projects can include digitization of records, shelving for […]
U.S. District Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk on Friday sentenced a St. Charles, Missouri man who recorded his sexual abuse of two young girls for years to 40 years in prison. Ronald C. Lawrence sexually abused two girls for years, starting when one was just 7 years old. He recorded that abuse and shared those images […]
A Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court for the sexual exploitation of a child. Jason T. Bernard, 54, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roseann A. Ketchmark to 30 years and five months in federal prison without parole. The court also sentenced Bernard to a lifetime of supervised release following incarceration and ordered […]
An Ava, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court after images of his repeated sexual assaults of two child victims were discovered by workers while they were demolishing his former residence. Harold Lloyd Blair, Jr., 67, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark on Thursday, June 20, to 58 years in federal prison […]
A Kansas City, Mo., man and a Crowder, Mississippi, man have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in a drug-trafficking conspiracy that included two murders. Shawn Burkhalter, also known as “Deuce,” 35, of Kansas City, Mo., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Brian C. Wimes to life in federal prison without parole. […]
