Gerster News

A former Maricopa County detention officer was sentenced Friday to a year in prison for assaulting two inmates and using the agency's records to get the home address of a former prisoner.A jail surveillance video showed Kevin Gerster, 35, stepping on the neck of an inmate who was restrained and bent over a table.

Parts of St. Clair, Hickory and Polk counties are under a tornado warning until 5 p.m. as the National Weather Service tracks a potential tornado detected by radar that is moving east from Collins.

Vernon County commissioners and the new district conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service stand for a photo after signing a proclamation declaring April 27, 2010, as Natural Resources Conservation Services Day in Vernon County Missouri.

County commissioners, law enforcemant personnel and dispatchers listen as April Tarrant, director of the Western Missouri 911 Dispatch Center reads the document proclaiming the week of April 12-18, 2010 as national Telecommunications Week in Vernon County.