Dent County News

A Salem teen suffered minor injuries Dec. 6 in a one-vehicle accident at 11:15 p.m. on Dent County Road 6150, three and a half miles south of Salem.

Two children from Salem and a California woman were killed in a two-vehicle crash in south-central Missouri.

Two children from Salem and a woman from California died in a two-vehicle crash Sunday night on a Dent County highway, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.

A former southeast Missouri high school teacher has been charged with two counts of statutory rape and one count of enticement of a child.

A former Salem Junior High teacher has been charged with statutory rape. Police say Dusty Arzt had an inappropriate relationship with a 15-year-old student between November 2008 and January of this year.

Jefferson City -- State employees who like their St. John's network doctors will get to keep them for at least another year under a deal reached this week.

A Crawford County jury found a man guilty of killing a woman from Salem 27 years ago.

Donald Nash has heard his verdict-- guilty of capital murder for killing his girlfriend, Judy Spencer, back in 1982.

First, Carl Rothove, a retired forensic chemist with the Missouri State Highway Patrol crime lab.

A 67-year-old man from Beaufort will be tried later this month in a 27-year-old murder case.

Governor Jay Nixon has appointed a new prosecutor for Dent County in south-central Missouri.

SEPT 23 -- Gregory Lee Stacy was indicted on drug charges which resulted in the death of a Dent County man, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap announced today.

A 42-year-old Salem man faces up to 20 years in prison and a $4 million fine for supplying drugs to another man who died after taking them, Acting US Attorney Michael Reap said Monday.

Captain Lee Ann H. Kenley, commanding officer of Troop I, announces that special enforcement projects will be conducted during September within the six-county Troop I area.

A Salem woman died this morning in a one-car crash in Dent County. The Missouri Highway Patrol reported that Jessica P. Whitaker, 23, was driving a 2001 Chevy Malibu east on Missouri 32, five miles east of Salem when she drove off the right side of the road at about 9:40 a.m. She lost control of the vehicle on gravel then overcorrected, drove back ...

St. Francois Society and Dent County Animal Welfare Society are holding the annual special needs pet adoption from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday at PetSmart Brentwood, 62 Brentwood Promenade Court.

In a ruling handed down July 10, the Missouri Southern Disrict Court of Appeals reversed Dent County Judge J. Max Price's decision to restore driving privileges to a man arrested for drunk driving.

Two people were flown to a Springfield hospital Friday night after a two-vehicle crash on a Dent County road, the Missouri Highway Patrol reported.

Missouri's Attorney General says hundreds of Dent County crime victims are waiting for justice.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Dent County Sheriff's Department are searching for clues in a suspicious cemetery death.