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10.21.2009 6:54 pm

Warrenton sewer leak fixed, city says

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Heavy rain in the past week led to a sewer main collapse in Warrenton, city officials said.

Robert Hamlin, the city’s public works director, said water washed away soil around an 18-inch clay tile sewer main near Hickory Lick Creek, probably…

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10.16.2009 5:28 pm

Charge against Lincoln County mother dropped; baby sitter now charged with child endangerment

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

About a week ago, we wrote about a Lincoln County mother who was accused of beating her 15-month-old son and fracturing his skull. This week, the child’s baby sitter called sheriff’s department investigators and said she was responsible for the…

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09.30.2009 6:29 pm

DWI checkpoint at Highway 94 and Highway D results in eight arrests

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Reporting by Joel Currier

Officers from the St. Charles County Sheriff’s Department and the St. Peters Police Department conducted a no-refusal, blood-only DWI checkpoint at Highway 94 and Highway D on Saturday. They stopped 982 vehicles between 4 p.m. and 10…

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08.26.2009 12:03 pm

Children will continue to be home-schooled as divorce case continues into September

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A St. Charles County divorce trial that has drawn the attention of home-school advocates is expected to end on Sept. 21. Meanwhile, as classes start, the children of Lisa Payne-Naeger and Jeff Naeger will continue to be home-schooled.

Payne-Naeger has home-schooled…

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08.25.2009 1:41 pm

New Melle woman dies in July 8 crash involving bulldozer

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Judith Ulery (Courtesy of Pitman Funeral Home)

Judith Ulery (Courtesy of Pitman Funeral Home)

The St. Louis Crime Beat blog has an update on Judith Ulery, 63, of New Melle. She and her mother were crushed by a bulldozer that fell off a truck’s flatbed on July 8.

Ulery has…

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08.05.2009 7:42 am

Voter turnout was less than 6 percent in St. Charles County

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Charles County Elections Director Rich Chrismer’s prediction was right. He said less than 10 percent of the county’s voters would cast ballots in Tuesday’s special election.

The unofficial results show 12,867 people took the time to darken one oval. There were 235,448…

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07.10.2009 3:08 pm

New Post-Dispatch blog tracks St. Louis crime

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Those of you who follow crime news will want to check out the Post-Dispatch’s latest blog: The Crime Beat.

It debuted yesterday afternoon, and reporters who cover crime and courts throughout the region will be contributing stories and blurbs from their…

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07.07.2009 12:27 pm

War Babies in Father’s Day story get help with search for GI dads

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Susan Weich and I co-wrote a story that ran June 19 about those searching for their American GI dad using the Military Records Center in Overland. Chas Beat also featured the story of another War Baby searching for his father that we…

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06.30.2009 6:29 pm

St. Charles police: Magazine salesman offers drugs to teen girl, father hits magazine salesman with metal pipe

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Update 6:51 p.m. Wednesday: Court records show McCormack was on probation for a felony drug possession case involving a prescription painkiller.

St. Charles police say a magazine salesman offered a teenager drugs, prompting the girl’s father to hunt him down and…

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06.26.2009 3:00 pm

St. Peters Tot Lot Park gets a new look

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Post-Dispatch’s Parents Talk Back Blog and intrepid reporter Jessica Bock already mentioned the St. Peters Tot Lot Park at 259 Bellemeade. It re-opened this wee. Here’s a little more information:

A view of the new Tot Lot Park playground equipment. Photo…

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