Monroe County News

Monroe County police arrested four people for drug possessioni Paris, Mo. James D. Griffith of Madison, Robert E. Wolfe of Paris, Tanya A. Bennett and Jodi R. Wolfe were arrested by a joint drug investigation with the NEMO drug task force and the Monroe County Sheriffa s Department.

Joyce Meyer Ministries was named as a co-defendant in a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the in-laws of accused murderer Chris Coleman.

Trial dates have been set for two Monroe County assault suspects. Donald Fuller III of Clarence will be tried March 25 and Charles E. Webb will go before a jury on April 8. Both trials will be in Ralls County on a change of venue.

Victor -- The Missouri Water Patrol says a Moberly man drowned at Mark Twain Lake after he became entangled in a net and fell overboard.

A 63-year-old Columbia man was killed in a head-on collision Tuesday morning in Monroe County.

The accident happened east of Paris in Monroe County. A Columbia man is dead this morning after a head-on collision in Monroe County.

A trial in the case of a northeast Missouri woman charged with six counts of felony animal abuse has been delayed.

Missouri will receive $1.92 million in federal stimulus funds for senior nutrition programs, which will provide more than 300,000 meals at senior centers and meals delivered to seniors homes, state officials said Wednesday.