By MARGARET STAFFORD, Associated Press BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — Divers found four more bodies Friday in a Missouri lake where a duck boat packed with tourists capsized and sank in high winds, bringing the death toll to 17 in the country-and-western town of Branson, authorities said. Investigators blamed stormy weather for the accident Thursday evening on …
Police say the 2-year-old victim contracted a sexually transmitted disease and had meth in her system
A Missouri mom who found her two young daughters mysteriously unconscious last Wednesday has reportedly explained her version what happened the day they died. Kansas City Star reports that Jenna Boedecker allegedly told authorities that she fell asleep in her car on July 4 after she lost her house key. She said her daughters, 2-year-old Ireland …
A Missouri mom who claimed she found her infant daughter and toddler daughter mysteriously deceased outside of her home is facing of slew of charges after she reportedly assaulted her husband last Thursday. CBS Kansas City reports that Jenna Boedecker-Ribando is charged with numerous felonies after she allegedly threw a brick at her husband’s truck as …
Authorities in Missouri say an Ohio professor traveled hundreds of miles on the promise of engaging in sex with an underage girl. According to the New York Post, 52-year-old Kevin Armitage was a Miami University professor when he began communicating online with a user who identified herself as a 14-year-old girl. Armitage used a website …
Authorities in Missouri continued to look for the hit-and-run driver of a vehicle that struck a 4-year-old boy in the St. Louis area last week. According to Crime Watch Daily, the young victim was identified by his grandmother as Tajma Johnson. He was reportedly transported to an area hospital from the scene of the collision …
A Missouri mother who admitted to letting her blind and autistic son die in a field could spend as little as 120 days behind bars. According to the Springfield News-Leader, Kimberly Lightwine, 43, pleaded guilty Wednesday to involuntary manslaughter and elder abuse in connection with the 2016 death of her son, Austin Anderson, 19. Prior to …
A Missouri mother helplessly witnessed the residential fire that claimed the lives of her four sons early Thursday morning. According to the Kansas City Star, Tina Brazil returned to the home in Otto with her boyfriend to find firefighters there attempting to battle the blaze. Her sons, Levi, Max, Cason and Tyler — ages 4 …
By TAMMY WEBBER, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — She was a St. Louis hairdresser whose marriage was on the rocks. He was a handsome, educated and ambitious client who bedazzled her with talk of his time as a Navy SEAL, author and volunteer. What began as a crush on future Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, the woman …
By DAVID A. LIEB, Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Attorneys defending Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens against a felony invasion-of-privacy charge have raised new doubts about a key allegation that he took a nonconsensual photo of a partially nude woman with whom he had an affair. In a court filing dated Sunday, Greitens’ attorneys say …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine why Missouri police officers responding to a 911 call were sent to the wrong house, where they say a man opened fire, killing one officer and wounding two others before he, too, died. Missouri Highway Patrol Sgt. Bill Lowe said whoever placed the 911 call …
CLINTON, Mo. (AP) — A man shot and killed a police officer and wounded two others who were checking on a disturbance at a Missouri home. Missouri Highway Patrol Sgt. Collin Stosberg said the officers went to the home in Clinton on Tuesday night in response to a 911 call in which no one was …
