Licking News

In the election May 5, the Southwest Licking School District placed a permanent improvement levy on the ballot.

A truck stolen from West Plains was recovered Sunday and its driver placed under arrest after a Licking police officer stopped to offer assistance when the man said his vehicle had run out of gas.

A Jefferson City man is arrested in Licking after police say he was driving a stolen truck.

A Licking man suffered serious injuries Thursday evening when the all-terrain vehicle he was riding crashed on a Texas County highway, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.

Four upstarts from Liverpool, England launched a tsunami of sound in the 1960s that pervaded every aspect of Western society.

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A Licking man has been charged with illegally guiding hunts for feral hogs in the Mark Twain National Forest, according to a news release from Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western ...

Good Saturday evening and thanks for stopping by the KSPR Weather Blog. What a Saturday it has been.

ETNA -- Southwest Licking Local Schools has moved this year's graduation from May 31 to June 7. It made the move after a windstorm in September and several winter storms.

A Salem women has died of injuries she suffered in a Friday afternoon crash in Texas County.

Kansas City police have used DNA to link a 69-year-old twice-convicted rapist to five unsolved rapes from the summer of 1982 in the Westport area.Detectives from the cold-case sex-crimes unit picked up Samuel ...

Jackson County prosecutors have charged a 69 year old Kansas City man with 5 rapes going back almost 27 years.

A Salem women died today after a crash in Texas County. Tracy Pachmayr was 39. She was not wearing her seat belt at the time of the crash, according to a report from the Highway Patrol.

A man from Licking suffered serious injuries early Saturday when he was thrown from a vehicle that slid out of control and crashed on an icy highway, the Highway Patrol said.

The emergency management director of Licking is charged with molesting a girl under age 12.

A 61-year-old woman accused of trying to sneak marijuana into a Texas County prison on Sunday now faces a felony charge.

A woman from St. Louis is facing possible charges after prison guards reportedly found marijuana hidden in her shoe.

On January 4, 2009 at 1:00 PM a Licking Police Officer was dispatched to South Central Correctional Center for a report of a visitor in possession of a controlled substance.

Police say a St. Louis woman was jailed after suspected marijuana was found in her shoe while she was visiting an inmate at a state prison in south-central Missouri.

A 61-year-old St. Louis woman was arrested Sunday, after guards at a Texas County prison found marijuana in her shoe.