BALLWIN, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Highway Patrol says searchers have found the body of a teenage girl who went underwater and never resurfaced in a river in a state park outside of St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that law enforcement and rescue agencies searched for hours and Castlewood State Park was closed…
Franklin County, MO (AP) Authorities say two boys have died after plunging through a frozen pond near their home in eastern Missouri. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the 7- and 8-year-old boys were found Sunday in the private pond in Franklin County. The search began after the boys didn’t return from a bike ride.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Mike Parson has ordered the flags to be flown at half-staff at all Missouri government buildings Thursday to honor a southwest Missouri sheriff’s deputy who drowned during flooding. Thirty-five-year-old Greene County Deputy Aaron Roberts’ patrol car was swept off a roadway Friday night. Roberts had just returned to service…
FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a 21-year-old man has drowned at an eastern Missouri quarry. The Missouri Highway Patrol says Safion Livingston, of St. Louis, died Friday afternoon after he struggled in the water, went under and did not resurface. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that it’s the second drowning this month at the…
VALLEY PARK, Mo. (AP) — A 27-year-old man is dead after drowning in Valley Park. St. Louis County police said that Matthew Kirk was swimming in the community of Valley Park when he went missing Sunday night. Officers responded and the area was searched with a helicopter, dogs, all-terrain vehicles and boats. His body wasn’t…
Jerome, MO (KTRS) Authorities say a woman has drowned in the Gasconade River in mid-Missouri. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports divers recovered the body of 35-year-old Dorca Reyes-Deleon, of St. Robert, on Thursday afternoon near the railroad bridge over the river in the Phelps County town of Jerome. Reyes-Deleon had been swimming with a…
( KTRS ) Authorities say they have recovered the body of a missing elderly man. The Missouri Highway Water Patrol reports that 79 yr old Clifford Brandt, of Cedar Hill in Jefferson County, is believed to have drowned. He apparently went to look at the high water in a local creek around 4pm yesterday an…
CAMDENTON, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say two Iowa men have drowned in Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks after one of the men began struggling and the other man attempted to save him. The Missouri State Highway Patrol identified the victims as 46-year-old Dennis Michel, of Ankeny, Iowa, and 40-year-old Jacob Seeman, of Woodward, Iowa. The…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) Two teenagers are dead after drowning in the Meramec River in Castlewood State Park over the weekend. Police say the bodies of 18-year-old Henry Manu and 17-year-old Samuel Neal, both of south St. Louis, were found late Saturday night in the Meramec River at the park. Witnesses told police they…
Foley, MO (KTRS) Search efforts resume today for a man believed to have drowned in the Mississippi in Lincoln County. The Missouri Highway Patrol was called Thursday night for a water rescue of a man and woman near Foley. The woman managed to get out of the water by the time rescue crews arrived. She…