Desoto News

Jurors were deciding the punishment for Mark Brooks, a former Missouri National Guard member, who was on trial in Jefferson County for rape and kidnapping.

Officials in Jefferson County yesterday issued warrants for Angela Parke of Ste.

Jefferson County prosecutors filed charges against two people in connection to the murder of Chester Scherer.

Orders of protection are civil matters people file when they are afraid someone close to them is about to cause them harm.

A Festus man will go to court next month charged with murdering a Jefferson County man and then trying to hide his body in Sainte Genevieve County.

The Missouri Veterans Commission is hosting a series of "Listening Posts" across the state, including one in DeSoto tonight.

A possible suspect was being questioned Thursday night in the murder of a Jefferson County man.

I just read that it has been 31 years since the last train left Union Station here in St.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday the clean up of a large swath of Jefferson County contaminated with lead is now a top priority for the agency.

First Place winners, The Sons of the Silver Dollar, left to right Michael Todd, Mark LaTourneau and Tom Johnson, during their prize winning performance.

An unidentified body was discovered Monday morning in a ravine off a rural Desoto road, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said.

Jodi D. Barks and John T. Wipfler exchanged wedding vows May 30, 2009, at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Kelso, Mo.

Jodi D. Barks and John T. Wipfler exchanged wedding vows May 30, 2009, at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Kelso, Mo.

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.