Morley News

New streets in Scott County will honor Missouri's gubernatorial history. During Tuesday's County Commission meeting, Joel Evans, county emergency management director and county developer, presented his idea for naming new streets in the unincorporated parts of the county as part of his activity summary for the month of June.

A two vehicle head-on collision slowed traffic, caused a fire, and sent four Scott County residents to the hospital.

Five Scott County men in jail on sex-related charges are moving through the court system! The counts stem from a runaway juvenile investigation in Oran.

Five men, four from Scott County and one from Stoddard County, have been charged with a variety of sex crimes following a Scott County Sheriff's Department investigation, Sheriff Rick Walter said in a news release Friday afternoon.

When many of Southeast Missouri's roadways were nearly impassible or shut down during January's ice, sleet and snow storm, general manager Steve Rider and a handful of other employees of Viking-Cives Midwest were doing their part to help ensure a speedy recovery.

A U.S. Supreme Court decision issued this week could have considerable consequences when it comes to drug searches and seizures following traffic stops, local authorities say.

When Harvey Shell began the process of writing and publishing his book about the Great Depression, he wasn't thinking about the parallels between the current economic climate and the one he grew up in.

Four Scott County residents were arrested recently on drug-related charges in separate incidents.

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a train Friday just south of Oran near County Road 411, said Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter.

The Broadway Theater, hailed as one of the country's finest theaters when it opened on Christmas eve in 1921, is closing its doors Thursday; its final offering will be "Yentl," starring Barbra Streisand.

Daughter to Adam Dale and Jennifer Michelle Slipis of Miner, Mo., Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:40 p.m. Tuesday, Feb.

AmerenUE customers in 19 of the 34 towns still affected by the severe ice storm that hit Southeast Missouri should have power by day's end Monday.

Don't let this new blog fool you -- I still don't have power out on my rural Tillman hilltop.

Downed trees blocked U.S. 61 at Benton, Mo., Wednesday morning. There were reports of falling trees and power lines blocking roads and causing outages throughout the county.

A firetruck overturned injuring two firemen on Saturday. A fire tanker, driven by Bobby G. Phillips, 32, of Oran was turning northbound at the intersection of U.S. 61 and Highway 77, just north of Morley at ...

Yesterday the Scott County Sheriff's Department and Chaffee Police arrested a Morley couple on drug charges.

Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter said Wednesday that a Morley, Mo., couple is in custody pending the filing of charges related to a methamphetamine laboratory discovered in Chaffee.

The McCracken County Sheriff's Office has arrested a man accused of having child pornography.

A Morley, Mo., man in being held in the Scott County Jail today, charged with eight sexual offenses that happened in Scott City and Chaffee, according to a news release from Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter.

A Morley, Mo., woman who pleaded guilty to murdering her husband in 2000 could be released from prison later this year after Gov.