Carter County News

Woman accused of shooting, killing boyfriend on day of father's funeral: 51-year-old Barbara Johnson of Carter County, MO is accused of shooting her boyfriend, 67-year-old Harvey Cookston.

A Carter County teenager faces up to 25 years in federal prison for property damage to a National Park.

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

A Monett woman was taken to the hospital after crashing her motorcycle in Carter County today.

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.

An Ellsinore man is in jail today after being charged in connection with the death of his wife, who was shot during an earlier dispute with his stepson.

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.

April 7: A single-engine, four-seat Cessna airplane, allegedly stolen from Ontario, Canada, sits along Highway FF in Carter County, Missouri, on Tuesday.

A single-engine, four-seat Cessna airplane, allegedly stolen from Ontario, Canada, sits along Highway FF in Carter County, Missouri, Tuesday, April 7, 2009.

A single-engine, four-seat Cessna airplane, allegedly stolen from Ontario, Canada, sits along Highway FF in Carter County, Missouri, Tuesday, April 7, 2009.

A single-engine, four-seat Cessna airplane, allegedly stolen from Ontario, Canada, sits along Highway FF in Carter County, Missouri, Tuesday, April 7, 2009.

A man is in the custody tonight of the Missouri Highway Patrol In a crazy story that began in Canada and ended in Southeast Missouri's Carter County.

An Ellsinore, Mo., woman underwent surgery Tuesday at a Poplar Bluff hospital after she was shot in the stomach at her home during a domestic incident involving her husband and son.

A Carter County jury's guilty verdict has brought a sense of closure to the family of a Missouri State Highway Patrol sergeant gunned down in the driveway of his Van Buren home.

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.

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.

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 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 is under way in Van Buren for the trial of a man charged with killing a Highway Patrol trooper in 2005.