Cooper County News

The board of the Old Trails Regional Tourism Partnership met at Baltimore Bend Winery in Waverly on Tuesday, June 9. According to minutes from the meeting, the group is still trying to receive 501 designation for tax purposes as a nonprofit organization.

Curtis M. Jones Law enforcement officials continue to seek a New Franklin resident who escaped early Monday morning from the Howard County Jail in Fayette.

Judge Donald L. and Carol A. Barnes, of Sedalia, will celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary with dinner and a musical at the Lyceum Theater in Arrow Rock with their children.

Michael Daniels A Fayette business owner who lives in the Cooper County Community of Wooldridge got a surprise when he arrived home Thursday evening, only to be greeted by the Cooper County sheriff and a highway patrol officer.

AT A LIST PRICE OF $2.2 MILLION, the future of this facility intended as a riverboat museum is now in limbo.

Citizens for Missouri's Children keeps Missourians up-to-date about the needs of the state's children through what's known as 'Kids Count,' a data base which tracks the well-being of children.

Two road construction projects have cracked the Missouri Department of Transportation's top 10 work zones that are most likely to cause delays this summer.

The Missouri Advisory Council on Historic Preservation will consider nominations to the National Register of Historic Places during its quarterly meeting May 15 in Jefferson City, including a portion of Blackwater.

A two-vehicle accident near Pilot Grove sent a teenager to the hospital. The accident happened when a vehicle driven by Aaron J. Schuster, 16, struck from behind a vehicle driven by Vernon R. Gerke, 51, according to Missouri Highway Patrol reports.

The area has seen its fair share of rain lately, and public officials are preparing for plenty more flooded roads throughout spring.

MoDOT finished replacing the bridge deck on Millersburg exit over I-70 in Callaway County as well as Route BB at the Harlan Branch Bridge in Cooper County.

And when you need to cut your budget, eating out is one of the first things to go.

"Ordered to be shot." uch was the fate of most Confederate guerrillas or bushwhackers in Missouri during the Civil War.

"Juror appreciation week is the time when judges, lawyers and the larger community publicly thank the commitment of the tens of thousands of jurors who serve each year in the courthouses of our state," Chief Justice Laura Denvir Stith said.

Boone and Cooper County firefighters work to extinguish a fire Sunday after a semi crashed in a multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 70 near the Missouri River bridge.

Officers found property stolen in a rash of burglaries and drugs while serving a search warrant at a Sedalia home.

Charges have been dropped against two lawmakers accused of presenting false identification at a Boonville casino.

Misdemeanor charges against Sen. Jeff Smith, D-St. Louis, and Rep. Joseph Aull, D-Marshall, in connection with a July 31, 2007, lobbyist-financed junket to the Isle of Capri Casino in Boonville, have apparently been dropped.

Clyde Harlan Fisher, 50, of Boonville, has been charged with first-degree robbery with a firearm and several other felonies following the reported robbery of the Lion's Den near the junction of Interstate 70 ...

State transportation officials have approved an additional 32 road paving projects to be funded with federal economic stimulus money.