Falcon News

Ferman Ogle, 76, of Lebanon, died Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009, at his home in Lebanon.

Mark Brian Williams, 45, of Lebanon, died Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009, at St. John's Hospital-Springfield. He was born Dec.

One of the largest organic cattle producers in the country has been suspended for four years from selling organic dairy cows after failing to demonstrate that it was following federal organic standards.

The County Commission will vacate Vance Road in the Falcon area, since it serves no purpose for the county as a maintained road, or the private property in which the road loops a quarter mile.

Vernetta Reid, 86, of Lebanon, died Monday, Oct. 12, 2009, at Christian Health Care South in Lebanon.

The U.S. Embassy said Friday it has made a formal complaint to Myanmar's military government after a Myanmar-born American claimed he was mistreated in prison.

Elvin Kincheloe, 65, of Lebanon, died Wednesday morning, Sept. 9, 2009, at St. John's Hospital-Springfield. He is survived by a daughter, Reena Maples and her husband, Jake, of Lebanon; five grandchildren, Kason and Larra Newman, Dylan Maples, Elvin J. Kincheloe and Tanner Eddington; three brothers, John Lee Kincheloe and his wife, Melba, of ...

AN American jailed and later freed by Burma's military junta for swimming to the home of pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi says he had "wept every day" while in prison.

Police in Myanmar seized more than 100 blocks of heroin and nearly 3 million methamphetamine tablets near the border with Thailand in one of the military-ruled country's largest drug seizures, a state-run newspaper said Wednesday.

Question to John Yettaw, the Breast-stroker of Burma : So, what did you learn? Answer: Not one thing.

John Yettaw of Falcon, Mo., disembarks as he arrives in Bangkok from Burma on a U.S. government plane.

AN American man imprisoned in Burma for sneaking into the home of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi flew out of the country yesterday after a visiting US senator won his release.

An American man imprisoned in Myanmar for sneaking into the opposition leader's compound but released with the help of a visiting U.S. senator headed home on a flight Tuesday after two days of health checks in Thailand.

16, 2009. Yettaw was imprisoned in Myanmar for sneaking into the home of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi flew out of Myanmar Sunday after a visiting US Senator Jim Webb won his release.

An American senator is to meet with the leader of the junta in Myanmar this weekend, just days after the country's pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, was convicted and returned to house arrest in a case that has drawn international condemnation.

U.S. Sen. Jim Webb arrived in Myanmar on Friday where he is scheduled to meet with the reclusive country's military junta, his office confirmed.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was found guilty of violating the terms of her house arrest by a military court Tuesday -- and sentenced to serve 18 more months in home confinement.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was found guilty of violating the terms of her house arrest by a military court Tuesday -- and sentenced to serve 18 more months in home confinement.

Journalists in Burma were unexpectedly allowed to enter the courtroom Tuesday ahead of a scheduled verdict in pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's highly watched trial.

The Law Lords have set Britain on a slippery slope. Their decision to instruct the Director of Public Prosecutions to prepare new policy outlining when prosecutions would and would not take place in cases of assisted suicide is an important one.