Stories from Monday, August 14, 2017

While traveling through southern Illinois last month, I stopped for lunch in the town of Staunton, established in 1859, population 5,000, with a downtown that looked much like old Pierce City. I complimented the Subway clerk on the well-maintained downtown district. The teen dismissed the commendation, adding, “There’s nothing to do here.”...

A Warrensburg woman was injured Saturday in a wreck at 1:20 p.m. on Farm Road 2225, two miles north of Washburn. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report, Kylie Boucher, 21, of Warrensburg, was driving a 2013 Chevrolet Cruz southbound when her vehicle failed to yield to and was struck by a 1998 Jeep Cherokee, being driven by Robert Stubblefield, 35, of Cassville...