SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Former Missouri auditor's spokesman Spence Jackson is being remembered at his funeral as a gregarious guy who was passionate about politics. Jackson's funeral was held yesterday in his hometown of Springfield, two weeks after he fatally shot himself in what police describe as a suicide...
Services for Stephen D. Gooch, a Smith-Cotton High School teacher who died Monday, have been scheduled. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 pm Friday at the First United Methodist Church Celebration Center,1701 West 32nd St., with funeral service at 10 am Saturday at the Celebration Center; burial will follow at Crown Hill Cemetery...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers are clearing their schedules to allow members to attend Auditor Tom Schweich's funeral. Schweich's funeral is scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Church of St. Michael and St. George in the St...
TYRONE, Mo. (AP) — Relatives will begin burying victims of a southern Missouri shooting spree this week. Thirty-six-year-old Joseph Jesse Aldridge killed seven people late Thursday in four homes in the unincorporated town of Tyrone before killing himself...
Today (Aug. 29), emergency personnel in Sedalia helped lay to rest one of their own. Kenny M. Stone passed away in the line of duty on Aug. 23, 2013. Kenny served our community as a paramedic. He most recently worked for APSI in Sedalia, but had spent a career serving at the Sni-Valley Volunteer Fire Department where he was assistant chief, as well as Oak Grove EMS and Lifeguard Ambulance. Today,
I know many of you are animal lovers and treat your dog or cat as a member of the family. I know I'm very pet friendly and can't remember a very long period of time without one. This morning, I read this story of a woman who had died as a result of cancer at the age of 68. She requested that her guide dog be buried with her. I'm thinking that sounds like a good request that when a person dies, the