Wood Heights News

Lance and Rosie Goetz of Wood Heights are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Avrie Lynn, born at Liberty Birthing Center on January 24, 2012 at 12:59 p.m. She weighed 8 lbs.

WOOD HEIGHT, Mo. - Investigators in the small Missouri town of Wood Heights say that they may have walked into the filthiest houses they have ever seen, and now police say that the people responsible can't be found.

Equipped with painting clothes and gloves, Boy Scout Troop #1720 and volunteers from the LDS church in Wood Heights listened attentively Friday as firefighter Mark Stigall Friday instructs them how to scrap and paint.

A fire destroyed a home in Wood Heights, Missouri Friday afternoon. Fire Chief Lee O'Dell says crews were called to the single family home near Excelsior Springs just after 2:00p.m. The home was totally involved when crews arrived.

Flood gates at six Corps of Engineers reservoirs are already open, releasing record amounts of water into the Missouri River.