Posted on Sun, Aug. 07, 2005
NEWS FROM ACROSS MISSOURI
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boonville
BOOKKEEPING CRISIS — Boonville City Administrator Selby Myers is eagerly awaiting the arrival of the city’s newly hired bookkeeper.
When Myers started in November 2004, the city’s books were several months behind and financial statements had not been prepared for some time. Myers’ predecessor, Tracy Walkup, was fired by the council in the spring of 2004. “I have no idea when we will be caught up,” he said.
columbia
TEEN NOT INEBRIATED — An 18-year-old who drowned in the Douglass Park swimming pool in June was not intoxicated, an autopsy report said.
Police said Omarr Burress, whose mother said he couldn’t swim, scaled a 7-foot iron fence to get into the pool after playing basketball with friends June 24.
dixon
OFFICER CHARGED — A police officer is accused of threatening his wife and striking his stepson.
James Scott Rhodes, 36, was charged with second-degree domestic assault. Rhodes’ wife, Loretta Rhodes, 34, said James Rhodes dragged her out of the truck she had been driving and struck his 17-year-old stepson in the forehead.
jefferson city
OPEN CONTAINER BAN — The City Council last week adopted ordinances aimed at strengthening the city’s liquor license regulations.
The council made it illegal to have an open container of alcohol on a city street, sidewalk or parking lot. Until now, police officers had to catch an offender taking a sip to write a ticket.
st. louis
DJS FIRED — A hip-hop radio station said it fired two of its radio personalities after an on-air discussion last month of ways to fight police officers.
The disc jockeys — whose professional names are DJ Kaos and DJ Sylli Asz — and callers to their morning show discussed how to fight for an officer’s radio so the officer can’t call for help. The comments were made eight days after a police sergeant was killed in Kirkwood.
TANEY COUNTY
WEST NILE WARNING — Several hundred mosquitoes collected from Taney County have tested positive for West Nile virus, prompting health officials to urge the public to take extra precautions.
According to officials with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, mosquitoes tested positive in 12 out of nearly 100 pools.
van buren
NEW JUDGE ASSIGNED — A Cape Girardeau County judge has been assigned to preside over the case of Lance D. Shockley, a 28-year-old Van Buren man accused of gunning down a Missouri Highway Patrol sergeant in his driveway.
A judicial assignment was filed last month with the circuit court in Carter County naming Presiding Circuit Judge William L. Syler to the case. Presiding Circuit Judge R. Jack Garrett recused himself on July 22.
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— Boonville Daily News — Columbia Daily Tribune — The Associated Press — Jefferson City News Tribune — The Associated Press — Branson Daily News — Daily Dunklin Democrat
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