Bates City News

A 50-year-old Columbia man charged with sexually abusing young relatives three decades ago is facing a court hearing.

A judge presiding over the case of one of six men accused of molesting young relatives at a western Missouri farm in the mid-1980s refused Monday to strike the lead prosecutor's name from a list of potential witnesses, setting up the possibility that she could be called to testify in one of her own cases.

Shocking tales of ritual sex abuse on a western Missouri farm made national headlines two years ago and sent six members of the same family to jail as accused child molesters.

Several people were injured in a wreck on westbound Interstate 70 between Oak Grove and Bates City early Monday morning.