Officials in Joplin, Mo., have brought together a team of public safety employees that they are sending to tornado-stricken Moore. Joplin was devastated by a tornado two years ago. On Monday, Joplin organized a team of about a dozen police and firefighters to assist in Moore. Joplin City Manager Mark Rohr says his community remembers [...]
A two-year-old boy was killed in a car crash in south central Kansas Monday. The child was riding in a GMC pickup along with two other children under age six. That truck rolled three times along K-61 north of Preston, Kansas shortly after ten a.m. Monday. None of the occupants was wearing a safety restraint. [...]
A Kansas man was sentenced to 260 years in federal prison for using a nine-year-old child to produce child pornography. Philip Andra Grigsby, 50, Marquette, Kan., pleaded guilty as charged to eight counts of sexual exploitation of a child, one count of possession of child pornography and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm [...]
A man and a woman have died in an all-terrain vehicle crash in southeast Missouri. The Missouri State Highway Patrol has identified the victims as driver Gregory J. Ormsby and his passenger, Stacey L. Ormsby. Both were 42 years old and from Doniphan. They died at separate hospitals. The ATV ran off a road early [...]
Residents who live near a suburban St. Louis landfill are moving into temporary homes as work begins that will make an already smelly situation worse. The operators of the Bridgeton landfill say work that begins Monday will temporarily increase the noxious smell coming from the landfill. The company has offered to relocate about 270 households [...]
One lucky person at a Publix supermarket in Florida over the past few days bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million — the highest Powerball jackpot in history. Two Missouri Powerball players were so close to picking all the winning numbers that that their tickets are worth $1 million each. The Missouri Lottery [...]
Authorities say a tornado that severely damaged a mobile home park southeast of Oklahoma City killed a 79-year-old man whose body was found in an open area of the neighborhood. Tornadoes touched down in five states, including one in Wichita, and another in rural Lyon County, Kansas. Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma Sheriff Mike Booth also said [...]
A central Missouri woman whose son died in a car accident while she was talking on a cellphone has been sentenced to one year in a county jail. Thirty-one-year-old Stephanie Wiebold of Meta was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to careless and imprudent driving. Her 2-year-old son, Dallen Rackers, died when Wiebold’s car went off [...]
The city of Marshall has its Sister of Liberty statue back where it belongs. The statue, which had been missing from its pedestal at Indian Foothills Park for more than a year, was returned to the park Friday. The statue was stolen in August 2012 and was found two months later in Blackwater River. It [...]
A north St. Louis County man admits that he stole money from his 4-year-old nephew’s piggy bank to use for drugs and prostitutes. Baron Calmese, 31, pleaded guilty Friday to a felony stealing charge. He will be sentenced next month. Calmese was arrested last July after he took more than $500 for his nephew’s piggy [...]