Elsberry News

A Lincoln County judge scheduled the trial of a former high school student charged with selling illegal narcotics on his school bus to begin in February.

County commissioners want the Sheriff to slash his budget by at least 20%. Sheriff Mike Krigbaum's called a town-hall meeting at Elsberry High School to outline possible cuts, including, the immediate closure shut down the county jail.

A potential budget crisis may force Lincoln County Sheriff Mike Krigbaum to disband his office's operations in January 2010.

ELSBERRY, Mo. - Former Elsberry Police Chief Sam Steward is suing the city, claiming he was defamed and wrongfully fired.

Former Elsberry Police Chief Sam Steward filed suit in federal court Monday against the city and four aldermen saying he was defamed and wrongfully terminated.

It was a happy homecoming Saturday afternoon for a wounded soldier returning from her second tour in the Middle East.

Elsberry -- The clerk at Elsberry Hardware knew something odd was happening across the street at City Hall when a sheriff's deputy borrowed a hacksaw.

City employees in Elsberry, Missouri arrived Tuesday morning to broken glass and ransacked offices.

There is plenty of mystery in Elsberry, Missouri, as investigators try to determine who broke into the small town's city hall and ransacked it.

The Scott County Soil and Water Conservation District is once again offering Grade 1 container trees and plants for sale.

Four new police officers were hired last week and will begin work for the City of Elsberry Police Department. Officers Tracey Gutierrez and Robert Bodley were hired as full-time, Joseph LaFrance as part time and Chris Walter as a reserve.

Voters in St. Charles County on Tuesday raised a capital improvements sales tax rate by 0.05 of a cent to pay for an emergency communications system that would allow all police, fire and ambulance and other emergency workers to talk to one another.

Voters in St. Charles County on Tuesday will consider raising a capital improvements sales tax rate by 0.05 of a cent to pay for an emergency communications system that would allow all police, fire and ambulance and other emergency workers to talk to each other.

Aldermen find out about burglary a year after it occurred Less than five days after a hearing that resulted in Police Chief Sam Steward being fired, information on a burglary and robbery of the Elsberry Police Department located at 317 Broadway has come to light. Last week The Elsberry Democrat was informed by an anonymous source close to the situation that the police department had been broken into in June 2008. According to this source more than a dozen guns were stolen. The Elsberry Democrat contacted the Elsberry Police Department asking for an incident report. Sgt. Brian Jeffries stated “I will have to get back to you.” From there General Manager Michael Short contacted City Attorney Robert Guinness. Guinness stated he was just made aware of the case and would look into getting the report. From there reporter Ashley Holton contacted Elsberry Mayor Carla Potts to see if she could assist in getting the incident report. Mayor Potts stated she was innocent and didn’t know anything about the burglary. She also told Holton to go ahead and print whatever we needed to print even if we didn’t have the report. A request was also filed in writing with the City Clerk’s office.

Alderman Kindred believes Mayor is a major part of Police Department inadequacies After a seven-hour hearing last Tuesday evening (June 23), Elsberry’s Police Chief Sam Steward was terminated. The 4-2 (Aye: Boswell, Harper, Kindred and Mahurin; Nay: Copeland and Gladney) decision came after the motion was moved by Alderman Bob Kindred and seconded by Bill Boswell.

After last night's hearing a 4-2 decision was made to immediately terminate Elsberry's Police Cheif, Sam Steward. This decision came after the motion was moved by Alderman Bob Kindred and seconded by Sherill Edelen. The hearing that started at 7 p.m., went on until a decision was finally reached around 2 a.m. this morning.

After weeks of discussion and hearings the decision was finally made by the City of Elsberry’s Board of Alderman to approve a Special Use Permit requested by the Elsberry R-II School District at the City Council Meeting on Tuesday, June 9. The permit, requested by the district to build a bus barn located on the property formerly known as the Khoury League Ball fields was approved.

On Tuesday, May 19, the Lincoln County Narcotic Enforcement Team (NET) investigated a possible methamphetamine lab in the area of the 500 block of South Ridge Road. At that time, detectives located two individuals, who were actively manufacturing methamphetamine. While attempting to make the arrest, one suspect, identified as Travis W. Davis, 29, of Elsberry, escaped from the scene in a motor vehicle.

Sixteen years after his mother's mysterious disappearance, Matt Higginbotham decided it was finally time to burn some of the things she left behind.