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The Pettis County Sheriff has identified the homicide victim found Sunday afternoon (May 4) at a Pettis County trailer park south of Sedalia.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A spring golf tournament is being planned to help the family of a Smithville man who died after an altercation at Arrowhead Stadium.

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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Columbia police have arrested one man and are seeking two others in connection with a shooting death of a 23-year-old man.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (DAVE SKRETTA, AP Sports Writer) — Police say one person has died and three people are in custody after an altercation in the parking lot of Arrowhead Stadium where the Kansas City Chiefs were inside playing the Denver Broncos.

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The Missouri Rural Major Case Squad convened this morning (July 24) in Sedalia to assist the Pettis County Sheriff in the death investigation of two rural Green Ridge residents earlier this week. Thirty investigators from area agencies began receiving lead assignments and will be working the case over the next several days.

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Two people found inside a burning home in far western Pettis County on Monday have been positively identified, and investigators are treating their deaths as homicides.

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — It took a Cole County jury only about 70 minutes to find a man guilty in a drug-related death of a Columbia man.

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UPDATE: Morgan County prosecutors have charged three people with the murder of Carol and Freddy Wilson. Garland Mitchell, 46, and Mandy Mitchell, 28, both of Jefferson City and Derrell Spellmeyer, 44, of Eldon have each been charged with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of armed criminal action. They are all being held on $1 million bond.

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The Morgan County Sheriff’s office says 82-year-old Wayne L. Wells and 71-year-old Mable I. Wells were found shot to death Tuesday morning in their home in Ivy Bend, Mo. A neighbor called 911 after finding Mable Wells lying in a pool of blood. Her husband was found in another room. A door had been forced open.

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The Benton County Sheriff's Office identified the body found in Truman Lake on September 30 as 15-year-old Khighla Parks and are following tips in reference to her homicide.  The Benton County Sheriff's Office, Greene County Sheriff's Office and Missouri State Highway Patrol have followed leads that has led the investigation to the Dallas County area.

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