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Police Blotter 11/28/12
Columbia Police Nov. 14 A two-vehicle crash occurred shortly after 4 p.m. at South Main and Admiral Parkway. A white 1997 Mercury driven by Gabriel Suchman, 84, turned northbound onto…
Read MoreMan awarded $3.2 million in lawsuit against bar
Early Thursday evening, a Monroe County jury awarded more than $3.2 million to a 47-year-old Waterloo man who was severely injured during a February 2010 incident at Fourth Street Bar…
Read MoreAnother strange object sighting reported
A follow-up to last month’s story of strange unidentified lights seen by police and onlookers in the sky east of Waterloo on Oct. 23, an Oakville, Mo. man reported a…
Read MorePolice Blotter 11/21/12
Columbia Police Nov. 15 Daniel M. Stroud, 52, of Columbia, was arrested for possession of cannabis and possession of drug paraphernalia at 2607 Columbia Lakes Drive. Nov. 17 Stacey L.…
Read MoreWPD investigating rash of burglaries
The Waterloo Police Department is busy dealing with multiple reports of burglaries to homes, businesses and vehicles that occurred over the past several days. The first reported burglary was to…
Read MoreFire damages Waterloo home
Fortunately, no one was inside at the time flames broke out in the upper level of a brick home at 402 Morrison Avenue in Waterloo around 11:10 a.m. Wednesday. Waterloo…
Read MoreJudge: Coleman bodies can be relocated
A Randolph County judge on Monday afternoon ruled that the bodies of a Columbia mother and her two sons murdered in 2009 can be moved from their current resting places…
Read MoreFort Kaskaskia building destroyed by fire
Fire destroyed the main shelter building at Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site in rural Ellis Grove shortly before midnight on Halloween night, the North County News reported. The Ellis Grove…
Read MoreStrange lights in the Tuesday night sky
Sheriff’s department deputies in Monroe and St. Clair counties turned their eyes to the sky Tuesday night near Paderborn just east of Waterloo, after multiple callers reported seeing unusual lighted…
Read MoreColeman bodies to remain in Chester, for now
A judge in Randolph County ruled Tuesday that the bodies of a Columbia mother and her two sons cannot be exhumed from their current resting place in a Chester cemetery.…
Read MoreMinistry dismissed from Coleman wrongful death lawsuit
In an order handed down Tuesday by Judge Richard Aguirre at the Monroe County Courthouse, a motion to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Sheri Coleman…
Read MoreMinistry seeks removal from wrongful death suit
Attorneys representing Joyce Meyer Ministries and the family of Sheri Coleman appeared before a judge in Monroe County court last Wednesday afternoon, as the ministry made arguments in support of…
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