Desoto News

The Eureka Tea Party civic activist group is holding a "Freedom Rally" from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sat., July 18, in the Edward O'Reilly Amphitheater at Bluebird Park in Ellisville.

An 18-year-old Desoto man was seriously injured Tuesday in a head-on crash that killed the driver of the car he was riding in, police said.

The trial is expected to begin Tuesday morning in Jefferson County Circuit Court for a 27-year-old convicted sex offender suspected of committing three sexual assaults between November and December 2001.

The American Red Cross is helping a family whose home was damaged in a three-alarm fire caused by a lightning strike.

It's a day off for students in a local school district where vandals smashed the lights on nearly every school bus.

H. Wallace and Myrtle Smiley, longtime residents of Houstonia who recently moved to DeSoto, will observe their 70th wedding anniversary on April 9. Myrtle Butts and H. Wallace Smiley were married April 9, 1939, in the parsonage of Houstonia Community Church.

Authorities in Jefferson County are searching for whoever is stealing ATV's worth thousands of dollars.

A 20-year-old DeSoto man was killed early today in a single-car crash near DeSoto.

ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY, MO - Police say a case that began as a domestic dispute ended in a murder-suicide. Investigators found 23-year-old Michael Johnson's body at a home in Jefferson County near DeSoto, Missouri early Tuesday morning.

Kennett Chamber of Commerce President Joe Stillman recently announced that Governor Jeremiah Nixon will be the keynote speaker at the annual Chamber Membership Banquet.

A Jefferson County jury has ruled that AmerenUE owes three families over two million dollars.

Three men from across Jefferson County are facing federal child pornography and methamphetamine charges in separate cases, US Attorney Catherine Hanaway said Friday.

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Three firefighters from the Desoto Rural Fire Department were injured Thursday evening following a house fire and roof collapse in southern Jefferson County.

Parkland residents Al Luebbers and Pat Smith wait in line Monday in Jefferson City to congratulate Gov.

Desoto, Missouri native Jay Nixon with sworn in as the state's new governor at noon today in Jefferson City.

A father and his two children are dead after an overnight house fire in Jefferson County.

Family and friends are reaching out to the survivor of a devastating New Year's fire that took the lives of Deena Manning's husband and two of her three children.

Three people are dead after a father rushes back into his burning eastern Missouri home in a failed attempt to save his two children.