Van Buren News

"I saw the driver, a man, get out of the car and run around to the other side." He saw the man with clenched fists of rage throwing his arms up and down as if to pound the ground.

CARTER & WAYNE COUNTIES, MO - High water has uprooted some trees in the Van Buren area Friday morning.

Jennifer D. Wolf, 29, of Piedmont, Mo., was killed and Justin Woods, 22, of Van Buren, Mo., sustained moderate injuries in a one-vehicle crash about 7:30 a.m. Thursday in the southbound lanes of Interstate 55, near Richardson Road, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.

Rep. Jo Ann Emerson told community members Wednesday no changes should be made in management of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways.

IS the asphalt road project on Route K done? That can't be the finished product.

Rep. Jo Ann Emerson told community members Wednesday no changes should be made in management of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways.

Forty-two-year-old Ricky Dawson was cleaning his gun when it accidentally fired, shooting him in the chest Monday afternoon.

VAN BUREN - The shooting death of a Carter County man has been ruled an accident.

Deputies are investigating why an 18-year-old southeast Missouri boy was lying in the road, after the teen was struck and killed.

A pickup truck driver told Missouri Highway Patrol troopers he tried to avoid an Ellington man walking on a Carter County road, but was unsuccessful, according to the patrol.

Helen Rozelle Sullivan, 71, of Van Buren, Mo., died Sunday, July 5, 2009, at her home.

Rocky Falls: It's a rocky falls, what more can I say? Posted Monday, July 6, 2009, at 5:51 PM << Previous Respond Our region has many colorful placenames: Elephant Rocks, Stony Battery, Hanging Dog Island, Ghost Dance Canyon, Devils Tollgate, and even Monkeys Eyebrow.

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.