Jefferson County News

A Jefferson County man was among a group of people indicted or sentenced on federal charges involving child pornography last week.

The Perryville Police Department has released its latest report of arrests and incidents.

Two Farmington residents were injured Sunday when their vehicle went off the road in Jefferson County while trying to avoid a large bundle of foam.

He was popular among his co-workers when he was a Jefferson County sheriff's deputy, friends said, but Adam Fite seemed to enjoy his new job as a Maplewood police officer.

If you've got an eye for photography, or just want to share some of your best photographs with the public, Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Crystal City has an opportunity for you.

A man who terrorized a Dittmer family last year will serve 15 years in prison. Lonney D. Horton, 41, Dittmer, pleaded guilty July 7 to one count of first-degree robbery, two counts of armed criminal action, one ...

Attorney General Jay Nixon has released appears to be the first ad of his bid for governor.

Two county fairs get under this week in Southeast Missouri. The Crawford County Fair begins tonight in Cuba and runs through Saturday.

Jefferson County, Missouri, has new confirmed cases of Salmonella St. Paul. The same strain of salmonella first thought to be associated with tainted tomatoes.

The Northwest Branch of the Jefferson County Library will host a "reading buddies" program featuring two therapy dogs at 6 p.m. on Aug.

Investigators with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention are in Jefferson County looking into cases of salmonella infection.

The suspect in a two-state killing spree, Nicholas Sheley, was charged today in Jefferson County with murdering a couple in Festus on June 30.

Authorities in Missouri have scheduled a news conference and are expected to discuss whether charges will be filed against Nicholas Sheley in the deaths of two people in Festus last month.

Jefferson County deputies say they found rats, mice, feces, and piles of trash in a House Springs home Sunday.

A judge sentenced Randall Gabler to life in prison, plus 10 years, for beating a 2-year-old boy to death last summer at a motel near Lambert Field and then dumping his body near a trash bin at a rural Jefferson ...

THEY ARE JILL AND TOM ESTES. ALL TOLD, SHELEY HAS BEEN NAMED AS A SUSPECT IN EIGHT KILLINGS.

Jefferson County prosecutors charged a Festus man with sexual assault on Tuesday.

UPDATED AT 4 P.M. Brandy Jean Mabery, 23, was charged Tuesday with beating her boyfriend's 2-year-old son to death.

Desoto Police have arrested someone after a two-year-old child died. Emergency crews received a call that a child was not breathing at a home in the 400 block of North 8th St on Monday around 3:30 a.m. ...

The Missouri State Highway Patrol is reporting four arrests. 24-year-old David J. Burns of Perryville on a patrol charge of driving on an expired license.