Bonne Terre News

Son to Aaron C. and Michelle M. Vance of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:50 a.m. Tuesday, June 16, 2009.

The East Perry County Fire Protection Association in Frohna is one of several rural fire departments receiving checks from the Missouri Department of Conservation Forestry Division Staff through the months of June, July and August as part of the Volunteer Fire Assistance Fire Department Matching Grant Program.

Kathryn Suzanne Allcorn, of Bolivar, and Jared Dean Lotz, of Springfield, were married at 4 p.m. Dec.

A Perryville teenager in county jail charged with 45 sex-related crimes will appear in the Circuit Court later this month! 18-year-old Robert Patterson Junior was arrested in May and charged with 15 counts of statutory rape, 15 counts of statutory sodomy, and 15 counts of child molestation.

A St. Louis man was convicted of possessing illegal machine guns in St. Francois County.

An eastern Missouri city hall was evacuated after a resident found a mortar shells and took them in for inspection.It happened Friday in Bonne Terre.

The Bonne Terre City Hall building and surrounding streets were evacuated Friday after a resident brought a pair of World War II era mortar rounds to the building.

Officials in Bonne Terre, Missouri, have evacuated city hall and a two block radius around it.

Reginald Clemons is still waiting to find out if he'll be executed as scheduled next week.

BONNE TERRE, Mo. - Two motorists are being credited with saving an eastern Missouri man who was trapped in his burning car.

BONNE TERRE, Mo. Dennis Skillicorn was calm — “remarkably calm” — in his final hours.The convicted murderer was executed at the state corrections facility in Bonne Terre at 12:34 a.m. Wednesday, 11 minutes after being administered a series of injections that left him unconscious and ultimately stopped his heart.He became the ...

Dennis Skillicorn died at 12:34 a.m. Wednesday. He was executed in Bonne Terre by the state.

A polar bear orientates itself to Polar World zoo in Orsa in Sweden after this breeding center for polar bears was inaugurated on Monday May 18 2009.

BONNE TERRE, Mo. - The execution of Dennis Skillicorn could be the first of many in the coming months in Missouri.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon never called Dennis Skillicorn 's lawyer at the Public Interest Litigation Clinic to say that he'd denied Skillicorn's petition for clemency.

Missouri has carried out its first execution in nearly four years, putting Dennis Skillicorn to death for the killing of a good Samaritan businessman.

Corrections officials on Tuesday were preparing for Missouri's first execution in nearly four years, even as attorneys for Dennis Skillicorn continued efforts to spare his life.

Dennis J. Skillicorn is scheduled for execution Wednesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre, Mo.

This new article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch , headlined "Legal challenges over, Missouri plans to resume executions next week," provides details on the latest death penalty developments in the Show Me State.

Kansas City Star, MO A view inside the death chamber at the Missouri Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Mo., where Dennis Skillicorn is scheduled to be executed next week.