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 …
A pair of Missouri teens received the maximum sentence allowed for an act of animal cruelty that attracted widespread condemnation when it made national news last year. According to the Kansas City Star, 18-year-old Kyle Williams and 19-year-old were each sentenced to four years in prison for animal abuse following convictions stemming from the fatal …
Authorities in Missouri say a 13-year-old boy threatened to use an AK-47 rifle in a mass shooting at a local school. According to the Springfield News-Leader, police arrested the suspect Sunday morning on suspicion of making a terrorist threat. He reportedly made the threat in a video he shared online with someone else. A media …
Local activists say Jalen Vaden’s confession was coerced and accused police of compromising the crime scene
A Missouri family is desperate for answers after they found photos and seconds-long videos of a strange man, taken with their grandmother’s phone inside her home. KMOV reports that Valerie Wallace found several pictures and videos of an unknown man in her 84-year-old grandmothers cellphone, apparently taken inside the elderly woman’s Festus home. Wallace immediately asked …
A 17-year-old in Missouri is facing child pornography charges after his father allegedly discovered pictures of a naked toddler girl on his phone and turned him in to police. According to The Kansas City Star, Paul Spensberger claimed he discovered two illicit images in Andrew Spensberger’s phone on December 30. The close-up images reportedly depicted a 2-year-old …
A Missouri man vacationing in the Florida Keys with family reportedly died Christmas Day in a freak snorkeling accident. The Springfield News-Leader reported that Owen Holmes, 69, from Ozark, was visiting Florida with family and boarded a boat operated by Starfish Snorkeling in Marathon near Sombrero Key lighthouse. While snorkeling five miles offshore, Holmes experienced some …
