Benton County News

Columbia landlords to take on slumlords, bad tenants and crime at closed-door meeting.

Posted on Wednesday, December 02, 2009 at 3:12 p.m. A preliminary hearing for the man charged with killing three Cole Camp residents has been rescheduled for later this month in Benton County Circuit Court.

Death in smoke-filled homeFire crews found a 53-year-old man dead in a smoke-filled townhome early Sunday.They responded about 2 a.m. to the 1300 block of North 77th Street on a report of a fire alarm going off and residents in the complex of townhomes smelling smoke.

A three-vehicle crash in Benton County today left four people injured and one dead, the Missouri Highway Patrol said.

Police are looking for a man who shot at a Benton County deputy and injured a K-9. The man began shooting at the deputy about 9:30 p.m. Sunday as the officer had completed a traffic stop on Commercial Street.

Nixon scheduled news conferences Thursday in Ashland, St. Louis and Sedalia to announce an expansion of the Share the Harvest program.

A Benton County man has drowned. The Missouri Water Patrol says the body of Leslie Hansen, 67, of Warsaw was found last night in Truman Lake just off the shoreline of the Long Shoal Beach.

The former principal of Warsaw High School has filed a lawsuit in Benton County Circuit Court against a former Warsaw R-10 School Board member and his wife.

The installation of a natural gas pipeline in portions of Pettis and Benton counties is nearing completion, and natural gas service is expected to be available to local residents within the next month.

A Warsaw man drowned in the Lake of the Ozarks on Monday, the Missouri State Water Patrol reported.

The state Department of Transportation is breaking ground Monday on a project that will expand U.S. Highway 65 to five lanes through Lincoln.

A Peculiar man was seriously injured in a high-speed flee after he failed to yield to an emergency vehicle in Benton County, Missouri Highway Patrol says.

A Warsaw man was killed Monday morning when he was thrown from a four-wheeler, the Highway Patrol reported.

A preliminary hearing for the man charged with killing three Cole Camp residents in June was scheduled for Nov.

A teacher in the Warsaw School District is on paid administrative leave pending an investigation into what the district calls staff misconduct.

Missouri's 4thA District Congressman toured a local construction facility on Monday, trying to make the case that the stimulus is working.

The race to represent the 116th House District in the Missouri Legislature is heating up as former the Warsaw school superintendent appeared in Sedalia this week to rally support for his campaign.

Robert B. Blurton, 45, a suspect in a triple murder in Cole Camp, was booked into Saline County Justice Facility at about 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug.

The man charged with killing a family of three in Cole Camp in June entered a not guilty plea Tuesday in Benton County Circuit Court.

The man charged in the triple homicide in Cole Camp appeared for a hearing in Benton County Circuit Court on Monday, where he requested the case be continued to give him time to meet with legal counsel.