Stories from Monday, June 24, 2024

As time moves forward into the summer days, the temperatures are also climbing and bringing heat advisories for the area. A heat advisory was issued early Monday morning, and the extended forecast predicts multiple days with temperatures in the mid to high 90s.

Toby Tuggle always wanted to be a firefighter, even when he was a student at the old Mark Twain Elementary School.

Darren Dixon, son of the late Donald Dixon and Evelyn Smith Dixon, was born Aug. 2, 1976, in Cahokia, Illinois, and departed this life June 21, 2024, in Advance, Missouri, at the age of 47 years. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter Tuesday, June 25, 2024. Interment followed in the Rosewood Cemetery in Malden, Missouri...

Officers responded at 1 a.m. Monday, June 24, to an assault in the 3100 block of Oakgrove Road. The video will be reviewed and the case is under investigation. _ A 2005 Chrysler Town and Country van was towed at 2 a.m. Monday, June 24, during a traffic stop on Sutton Street after it was determined the vehicle was not insured. The driver was issued traffic tickets...