Silex News

Updated: 6:37 a.m. Friday ST. LOUIS -- Flooding has caused the closure of roads and schools after steady and heavy rain dumped up to four inches of water on the St.

Neighbors around this tiny Lincoln County town is keeping an eye on the Cuivre River as the rains continued all day Thursday.

A number of first time teachers will be starting in area schools this fall. In two weeks, Hayley Leake, 23, will teach English literature at Hazelwood West High School starting August 13.

A struggling town flooded after Hurricane Ike last year is getting a facelift and a chance at rebirth, as much of the town will move to higher ground with the state's help.

The Lincoln County town of Silex may be moving to higher ground, out of the way of floodwaters.

Like other Midwestern towns before it - Pattonsburg and Rhineland in Missouri, Valmeyer in Illinois - much of Silex is about to move to higher ground.

Money to relocate some of the low-lying town of Silex and to pay for dredging to reopen the Grafton Ferry is part of $9.5 million in federal disaster grants announced Wednesday by the Missouri Department of Economic Development.

TROY, Mo. - A trial date of Sept. 14 is set for a 78-year-old northeast Missouri woman accused of making methamphetamine.