Herculaneum News

JEFFERSON CITY - The Catholic High School girls' cross country team got the Ozarks off to a strong start at the state cross country championships at the Oak Hills Golf Center, taking second in the first race of the day, the Class 2 girls' race.

Alyssa Allison and Solomon Haile, members of Arkansas' women's and men's cross country teams, have been named the 2009 Southeastern Conference Cross Country Freshmen Runners of the Year, it was announced by the league office Tuesday.

An aeriel view of the Doe Run Company factory, smelter and slag pile shows the proximity to the households in Herculaneum.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says tests have found contaminated soil at more than one-third of residential properties near an eastern Missouri lead smelter.

Take the Dead Governors' Tour Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009, at 1:54 PM << Previous Read comments Respond Missouri passed a curious law in 1967 that directs the state park board to "suitably mark and maintain every grave of a former governor in this state, which is not within a perpetual care cemetery." As a result, Missouri has three state ...

Cemeteries get a bum rap as spooky and creepy places, especially during the Halloween season.

Son to Keith Allen and Dr. Kristi Baker of Greenfield, Ind., Community Hospital North, Sunday, Aug.

Festus and Crystal City have histories so intertwined that a Walmart store happily sits on the border between them .

The Jefferson County Fire Fighters Association is sponsoring the 16th annual Jeffco Fire Engine Rally from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Herculaneum Fairgrounds.

Local officials have eyed more than 70 undeveloped acres along busy Interstate 55 for the past several years, dreaming about the possibilities.

Residents of Herculaneum facing new lead standards gained new insight Wednesday evening.

First it was the Foghat concert. Now, an ongoing saga between city officials and airport managers over the fate of the Festus Memorial Airport has claimed another victim: the Balloon Glow.

One person was safely pulled from the Mississippi River Thursday evening after the boat he and another man were riding in overturned.

Authorities say a Missouri man drowned and another man was injured when their fishing boat capsized on the Mississippi River near Valmeyer in southwestern Illinois.

Relatives of a Jefferson County woman missing for 33 years are hopeful for closure after a possible break in the case.

Relatives of a Jefferson County woman missing for 33 years are hopeful for closure after a possible break in the case.

The family of a Festus woman missing for more than 33 years is speaking out after police in Herculaneum uncover a possible break in the case.

The 33-year-old search for a missing eastern Missouri woman continues. On Friday, Herculaneum detectives looked for the remains of Geneva Adams on a 114-acre wooded property outside of Perryville.

There could be a break in the case of a woman who has been missing from Herculaneum for more than 30-years. Investigators think she may have been murdered after leaving a bar.

The 33-year-old search for a missing eastern Missouri woman continues. On Friday, Herculaneum detectives looked for the remains of Geneva Adams on a 114-acre wooded property outside of Perryville.