Greene County

The MSHP said Monday night that the bodies of a missing man and his two young children were found in rural Benton County.

Authorities say one juvenile has shot and seriously injured another youth in southwest Missouri.

A former southwest Missouri sheriff's lieutenant has been sentenced to six consecutive life terms for sexually abusing an 8-year-old girl.

One employee of a Springfield nonprofit that helps the homeless find housing has resigned and another was terminated after a state investigation.

Two more southern Missouri women recently pleaded guilty in federal court to their roles in a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine in Springfield, MO.

A 27-year-old Nigerian national who lived in St. Robert has been sentenced to four years and three months in federal prison without parole for participating in a wide-ranging fraud conspiracy.

A 41-year old man from Springfield, MO was recently sentenced in federal court for leading a drug-trafficking organization that distributed as much as 10 kilograms of heroin in Greene County, MO, over a 15-month period of time.

Greene County prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty for a 24-year-old man accused of killing three people in Springfield.

Fourteen southern Missouri residents were recently indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Greene County, MO, and elsewhere. Five of the defendants were also charged with illegally possessing firearms.

A 55-year old man from Springfield, MO was recently sentenced in federal court for child sexual exploitation.