Child Molestation

Pattonsburg man charged in Daviess County with sexually molesting 4 children between the ages of 12 and 17

Views: 0A Pattonsburg man has been charged in Daviess County with multiple counts of child molestation after alleged incidents involving a four-year-old, a 15-year-old, and three individuals between the ages of 14 and 17. Seventy-three-year-old Steven Dale Lawrence entered a plea of not guilty on Monday. A bond motion was heard and overruled. Bond has […]

Explosive Device

Brookfield residents charged with possessing explosive devices as well as auto theft

Views: 0Two Brookfield residents have been charged in Linn County after law enforcement found what was determined to be homemade explosive devices in a residence on Caldwell Street. Twenty-nine-year-old Creed David Paul Jones faces the felonies of unlawful possession, transport, manufacture, repair, or sale of an illegal weapon; stealing—motor vehicle/watercraft/aircraft; and possession of a controlled […]

Former Missouri Republican Party Executive Director Jean Evans

Audio: Former Missouri GOP Party director says Trump “failed miserably” in handling this week’s Capitol riot

Views: 0Former Missouri Republican Party Executive Director Jean Evans says she resigned a few weeks early after getting increasingly disturbing messages from Trump supporters calling for things like a coup. Evans says President Trump “failed miserably” this week in handling the violent and destructive rioters at the U.S. Capitol.     Evans says she was […]

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Crash south of Trenton injures Chillicothe man

Views: 0A Chillicothe resident was hurt early Saturday south of Trenton when the sports utility vehicle he was driving traveled off Highway 65. Twenty-one-year-old David Corbin of Chillicothe walked to Wright Memorial Hospital, located at the south edge of Trenton, even though his injuries were described as moderate. The crash happened one mile south of […]

Former Missouri Republican Party Executive Director Jean Evans

Audio: Former Missouri GOP Party director says disturbing messages from Trump supporters led to her resignation

Views: 0Former Missouri Republican Party Executive Director Jean Evans says she resigned a few weeks early. Her term expired this month. Evans tells Missourinet she made the decision after getting troubling messages from Trump supporters trying to keep him in the White House. “The calls were becoming increasingly angry and demanding and threatening – never […]

Foster Care

Audio: Missouri social services workers develop plan to help more youth aging out of foster system

Views: 0Four Missouri Department of Social Services workers have won a state government challenge for proposing a plan to support more foster children aging out of the system. Rene’ Brinkman, Shasta Miller, Bobbie Thomas, and Nicole Robinson head a unit in southeast Missouri helping older youth prepare to transition into independent adults. Brinkman says their […]

Lack of adequate funding has left county taxpayers bearing incarceration costs of state prisoners

Views: 0Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway has released an audit of the County Reimbursement Program, which reimburses county governments for certain costs for housing and transporting state prisoners. The program is administered by the Missouri Department of Corrections. The audit found that a combination of delayed reimbursements due to lack of state funding and increasing […]

Missouri State Highway Patrol Website New 2021 (MSHP)

Five die in traffic crashes over Christmas holiday weekend

Views: 0The Missouri State Highway Patrol announces the preliminary statistics related to the Christmas holiday weekend. Five people died in traffic crashes during the 78-hour counting period, which began at 6 p.m. Thursday, December 24, 2020, and ended at 11:59 p.m. Sunday, December 27, 2020. 2020 Christmas Holiday Traffic Statistics with troopers investigating the following: […]