Winfield News

A tree collapsed on a mobile home and nearly hit a person inside. Old Monroe Fire Protection District Chief Chris Blevins said the daughter of the homeowner was in the kitchen when the tree and powerlines fell on the mobile home as strong storms moved through Wednesday night.

Update: Monday, 18, 2009, 7:36 p.m. Winfield police do not suspect foul play after a man's body is found at the Winfield Intermediate School.

Authorities have identified the body found by mushroom hunters in Lincoln County has 28-year-old Jackie Noel of St.

Mushroom hunters found a partial skeleton in Winfield Wednesday, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department said.

Harry Stonebraker was well-liked in Winfield, Missouri . Last week he was about to finish his third 2-year term as mayor of the town, was running for a fourth term, and was pretty much expected to win.

Ed Pilkington: In Winfield, Missouri, voters have elected a dead man for his fourth two-year term as mayor What do you look for in an elected representative? Inspiration, perhaps, a la Barack Obama.

WINFIELD, Mo. - Aldermen in the eastern Missouri town of Winfield have postponed a decision on the selection of a new mayor.

A Winfield woman was found dead in Lincoln County Wednesday. Police now say she died of a heroin overdose.

Wikinews The town of Winfield, Missouri in the United States has re-elected its mayor for a third time nearly a month after his death.

On Thursday, the North Korean state media announced that the country had decided to keep its leadership structure intact - with the rarely seen Kim Jong-il formally serving as chairman of the country's most powerful agency , while his late father, Kim Il-sung, remains "eternal president." Earlier this week, a town in Missouri made a similar ...

A drug overdose likely caused the death of a Winfield woman whose body was found in Cuivre River State Park, police said Friday.

For the second time in three days, a body has been discovered in Cuivre River State Park near the eastern Missouri town of Troy, though officials don't believe the two cases are connected.

Mayor Harry Stonebraker won his reelection bid in Winfield, Mo. , , this week with a margin of victory that most politicians would die for.

The St. Louis Area Major Case Squad is investigating the death of a woman whose body was found in Cuivre River State Park in Lincoln County.

Voters in the US town of Winfield, Missouri have re-elected their mayor, despite him dying a month before the ballot.

City officials in Winfield, Mo., said the four-member board of aldermen must choose a new mayor after the incumbent was posthumously re-elected. Harry Stonebraker, who was elected to a fourth term Tuesday, died at the age of 69 on March 11, the day after the state deadline for removing deceased candidates from ballots, the Hannibal Courier-Post ...

Not even death could stop one small-town mayor from getting another term in office this week.

UPDATED, 6:45 a.m. LINCOLN COUNTY - The Major Case Squad this morning has identified the woman whose body was found Wednesday in Cuivre River State Park, authorities said.

In Lincoln County, election officials are going over some very tight returns from Tuesday night -- even two ties.

A judge has dismissed rape charges against a St. Louis County man already acquitted in the 1991 murder of a Lincoln County woman.