BOSTON – Average gasoline prices in Missouri have risen 0.8 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.87/g Tuesday, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 3,940 stations in Missouri. Prices in Missouri are unchanged versus a month ago and stand 13.9 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel […]
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JEFFERSON CITY – Five persons died in traffic crashes and one person drowned during the 2025 Labor Day holiday weekend. The 2025 counting period for the Labor Day holiday was from 6 p.m., Friday, August 29, through 11:59 p.m., Monday, September 1. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports the following enforcement activity during 2025
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CHESTER – The Randolph County Sheriff’s Office has released its latest report of arrests: Maissie L. Easton 19, Sparta, arrested August 25, 2025 by Sparta Police on a Randolph County warrant for petition to revoke probation. Pretrial Release. Richard M. Durnell 35, Rockwood, arrested August 28, 2025 by Randolph County Sheriff’s Office on a
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SIKESTON, Mo. – Southeast Missouri Food Bank will host its second annual Hunger Action Resource Fair and mobile food pantry on Monday, Sept. 8, as part of Hunger Action Month. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the food bank’s parking lot at 600 State Highway H in Sikeston.
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JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control (DDCC) announces the arrest of Skyler Brown, 21, of Ste. Genevieve, MO, for child sex crimes following an investigation by the DDCC Special Victims Unit (SVU). In August 2025, while conducting an online child pornography investigation, SVU investigators obtained a CyberTip
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CHESTER — An out of control car crashed into a storage unit behind the Chester Wal-Mart store Monday afternoon. (Photos by Jim Beers) According to reports, the crash happened about 12:57 p.m. when the driver of the vehicle “blacked out”. The driver was able to get out of the car and
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A funeral will be held Thursday, September 4, 2025 for 96-year-old Theodore F, ‘Richard’ Harnagel of Chester, Illinois, who passed away at 9:35 a.m., Sunday, August 31, 2025 at Independence Care Center, Perryville, Mo. He was born December 14, 1928 in Wittenberg, Mo. to Otto and Ollie (nee Garris) Harnagel, who both preceded him
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A funeral mass will be held Friday, September 5, 2025 for 89-year-old Sister Genarose Buechler, ASC of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, who died peacefully at 8:08 pm, Friday, August 29, 2025, at Memorial Hospital, Belleville, Illinois. Sr. Genarose was born August 18, 1936 in East St. Louis, Illinois, one of seven
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A funeral will be held Thursday, September 4, 2025 for 83-year-old Janice Genevieve Gebhardt of Festus who passed away Aug. 26, 2025, at Crystal Oaks Nursing Home in Crystal City. She was born July 22, 1942, in Ste. Genevieve, the daughter of Dorothy (Smith) Doza, who preceded her in death. She married Martin
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A funeral will be held Friday, September 4, 2025 for 92-year-old Hubert Anthony Halter of Perryville, Mo. who passed away Saturday, August 30, 2025 at Monticello House in Jackson, Mo. He was born March 1, 1933 in Uniontown, Mo. to Ben and Clara (Meyer) Halter who both preceded him in death. He and
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