Van Buren News

Son to Robert Christopher and Callie Ilene Miller of Jackson, Saint Francis Medical Center, 12:42 p.m. Saturday, June 27, 2009.

Ashly Nicole Palmer and Bryan Stacy Leimer were united in marriage June 13, 2009, at Cape County Park South.

An autopsy is being done today on a Carter County man, who was apparently shot to death by his longtime, live-in girlfriend.

Bootheel Contingent members, from left, Mike Cokenour, Josh Monroe, Steve Clinton, Tim Morrison and Trey Presson pose for a photo Saturday in Sikeston, Mo.

Reverend Larry Rice welcomes women and children to a hot dinner Tuesday, May 19, 2009, at New Life Evangeslistic Center in Cape Girardeau.

A Birch Tree man suffered serious injuries and a Van Buren man moderate injuries Tuesday in a crash on U.S. 60 near Ellsinore, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.

Lance D. Shockley of Van Buren stood solemnly, showing little emotion, as Presiding Circuit Judge David Evans sentenced him to death Friday afternoon in a Carter County courtroom in Van Buren.

The southeast Missouri man convicted of killing Missouri state trooper Carl Dewayne Graham Jr.

If you are looking to go to school in Poplar Bluff, MO, there is really only one opportunity where you attend classes on campus.

A Columbia, Mo.-area man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday morning for his role in the February 2008 armed robbery of a Van Buren pharmacy.

Mark Twain National Forest has awarded $2.3 million in federal stimulus funds for contracts to improve forest roads and recreation sites.

Donald Lee "Don" Bonney, 71, was called into the hands of the Lord, at his home, on March 27, 2009, after a three-year battle with cancer.

Photo courtesy of The West Plains Daily Quill Lance D Shockley, at right, closed his eyes as the verdict was read Friday, proclaiming him guilty of murdering Highway Patrol Sgt.

The state is expected to wrap up its case Thursday in the trial of a Van Buren man accused of gunning down a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper in his driveway.

Carter County, MO Jury selection underway in Shockley trial Updated: Jury selection is underway in Carter County in the trial of a many accused of killing a Missouri state trooper in 2005.

A Carter County jury heard emotional testimony and viewed crime scene and autopsy photographs Tuesday, the second day of a murder trial in the case of a man charged with killing a Missouri State Highway Patrol officer.

A Carter County jury heard testimony Monday afternoon surrounding a November 2004 fatal crash prosecutors believe was the motive for a Van Buren, Mo., man to gun down a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper in his driveway.

Jury selection began this morning in Carter County in the trial of the Van Buren man accused of gunning down a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper in his driveway.

Leigh Ann Robison and Kelley Douglas Segraves were married Sept. 6, 2008, at Dennis Scivally Park.

Highway 34 from Jackson west into the Ozarks where it ends near Van Buren, Mo., has always tested the mettle of motorists.