The search for a new O’Fallon, Mo., police chief and city administrator has been narrowed to just five candidates for each position.

In-person interviews are to begin later this month for the remaining five people still in the running for both…

Robert Lowery Jr., who resigned a month ago as O’Fallon city administrator, is moving to the Washington, D.C, area to take a new job with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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Lowery said today he will be the executive…

Mayor Bill Hennessy of O’Fallon said Friday he agreed to a buyout package for former City Administrator Robert Lowery Jr. because it was “the right thing to do.”

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Lowery’s total payout under the agreement, approved by Hennessy and the City Council late last…

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Lawyers hired by the O’Fallon City Council to investigate allegations against City Administrator Robert Lowery Jr. appear to have found no wrongdoing, according to a report obtained today by the Post-Dispatch.

Lowery was reinstated Feb. 26 after about a…

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O’Fallon City Administrator Robert Lowery Jr. is pressing the City Council to publicly release the investigative report of the undisclosed issues that spurred the council to put him on administrative leave earlier this year.

The council on Thursday night voted 6-2 to reject…

O’Fallon City Administrator Robert Lowery Jr. is back on the job at City Hall after the City Council backed off its previous decision to put him on administrative leave for undisclosed reasons.

Lowery and council members today had nothing to say…

I’m sitting here in the audience at the start of O’Fallon’s twice-monthly City Council meeting, and City Administrator Robert Lowery Jr. is still persona non grata.

Lowery’s name plate has been removed from the dias, and Assistant City Administrator Greg Smothers…

O’Fallon’s last police chief has applied to become O’Fallon’s next police chief.

Huh?

Yes, you read that correctly.

Former Chief Jerry Schulte has submitted his application for the open police chief’s job. He could not immediately be reached for comment today.

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Two others…

Last week, a poster commented on the Todd Criswell/Charles Mobley wrongful termination lawsuit against the city of O’Fallon.

Here’s what the poster wrote: “…Charlie Mobley was just given a large sum of money by the Lowery/Morrow lead city. Go figure, only…

Chet Pleban, a lawyer for O’Fallon City Administrator Robert Lowery Jr., has sent a letter to the City Council claiming Lowery is a victim of retaliation by the council.

In the Jan. 15 letter to all eight council members, Pleban demanded…