Old Mines News

Officials from the Environmental Protection Agency will be in eastern Missouri this week to outline soil contamination cleanup plans in three towns - Potosi, Old Mines and Richwoods.

Andrew Thornton told his girlfriend, Nickie Rundel, she had won a contest for being the biggest Cardinals fan, but he wasn't exactly telling the truth.

Michael L. Weston, 29, of Potosi, was killed in a single-vehicle crash Tuesday morning on Pat Daly Road just west of Highway 21 in Washington County, the Missouri Highway Patrol said.