Franklin News

Tudors star James Frain has just been cast in the heavily recurring role of Franklin Mo tt, Tara's over-protective vampire squeeze, sources confirm to EW.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Lamar Bell of Fayette died at his home Saturday . He was 59.

Wednesday, November 04, 2009 David Wayne Hendrix of New Franklin died at Ashley Manor Care Center in Boonville on Sunday .

The City of Pilot Grove offered visitors a little bit of everything Saturday during the 5th annual Pilot Grove Harvest Festival.

A University of Missouri research farm hosts its annual chestnut roast this weekend in the Howard County town of New Franklin.

Country singer and Missouri native Sara Evans will sing the national anthem before the Tigers' football game Oct.

He will doubtless go to another place the coming year. He and his family are mighty nice people and we regret that they leave here.

THE OUTREACH LIBRARIAN will be available today from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the New Franklin City Hall.

He is in the Howard County Jail on a $47,685 cash only bond. * James K. Frye, 18, of Fayette, was arrested Friday on a Class B felony, burglary in the first degree.

He is in the Howard County Jail on a $47,685 cash only bond. * James K. Frye, 18, of Fayette, was arrested Friday on a Class B felony, burglary in the first degree.

Frederick Moss Prewitt by George Caleb Bingham As part of a special display titled 'A Bevy of Binghams,' an important new portrait joins four other Bingham portraits in conjunction with a new show, 'The Art of the Place: Paintings from the Permanent Collection that Focus on the Aesthetics of Setting,' which opens Tuesday and runs through Oct.

A major drug sting in Howard County has resulted in more than a half-dozen arrests and a near-capacity guest list at the county jail in Fayette.

Sara Evans and Pat Green will headline this year's concerts at the American Royal.

Columbia police have captured an inmate who allegedly escaped from the Howard County jail using a cardboard toilet paper holder.

Curtis M. Jones Law enforcement officials continue to seek a New Franklin resident who escaped early Monday morning from the Howard County Jail in Fayette.

Roadblocks were up around Fayette after an imnate escaped from the Howard County jail.

For this immediate area there were no surprises at the recently completed session of the Missouri United Methodist Annual Conference which gathered this year at Springfield.

A U.S. Marine from Missouri has been killed in Afghanistan supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

Retired police officer John Brooks wonders if any readers share his fond memories of a horse-drawn calliope that signaled the arrival of a snow cone vendor.