Dittmer News

Elizabeth F. Faulkenberry, a former presiding commissioner who was dubbed the queen of Jefferson County politics, was killed Saturday morning in a two-vehicle accident near Morse Mill, the Missouri Highway Patrol reported.

Family members gathered recently for this four-generations photo. Pictured are Greg Abbott of Leland, grandfather, Jessi Smith, mother, holding Aaron Smith of Dittmer, Mo., and Guy Abbott of Leland, great-grandfather, holding Ethan Smith of Dittmer.

Rob Levitt, right, and Jim Brooks, both employees of Bob Otto Striping in Dittmer, Mo., paint numbers on the parking spaces at Alton High School this week.

Here are the top seven reasons to attend the 2009 Mid America CropLife Association's Annual Meeting Sept.

The FBI pedophile sting that snared a Catholic priest and two other men here marked just the second time nationally that a tough federal sex trafficking charge was used to target demand for child prostitutes, officials said Friday.

Detectives say Aaron J. LaRose murdered his estranged wife by stabbing her in the neck three times and choking her with rope.

Our angel, Gavyn Joseph Pruitt, went to heaven June 25, 2009, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

A contentious election last year for a seat on the St. Louis County Council has become a battle over a popular celebration of American independence.

People living at a Dittmer, Missouri home were able to escape a two-alarm fire. A neighbor saw heavy fire coming from the home in the 7700 block of Cedar Farm Estates Drive and called authorities.

Two St. Louis men are facing second-degree murder charges in connection with a car accident that left a 48-year-old Dittmer man dead.

A 22-year-old woman was killed this weekend in the Cherokee National Forest after she lost control of a motorcycle she was operating, according to a Tennessee Highway Patrol report.

An Oakville man who ran unsuccessfully for the Mehlville Fire Protection District Board of Directors in 2005 has been indicted by a federal grand jury in a murder-for-hire case involving a district firefighter.

Mike Anthony was busy loading trucks early this morning at the Sargent Sand property as semi trucks lined up to wait for sand.

Daughter to Christopher James and Natalie Christina Dittmer of Kelso, Mo., Saint Francis Medical Center, 3:40 p.m. Sunday, April 5, 2009.