McDonald County News

By Jeff Lehr news@joplinglobe.com GOODMAN, Mo. -- McDonald County sheriff's deputies are trying to determine if a Texas man had any help disposing of the body of a man he allegedly shot and killed at a residence west of Goodman the night of May 17-18.

McDonald County police are investigating what they call a brutal murder. The McDonald county sheriff, Rob Evenson, tells KSPR news that 26 year old Caleb Sadler of Del Rio, Texas is charged with first degree murder.

Lanagan's police chief and an officer have been suspended without pay following their indictment for writing citations on a nonexistent statute and altering an annual racial profiling report.

Rearick is wanted for failure to appear on multiple counts of felony assault and other charges.

A Platte County Judge has handed down the death sentence for a McDonald County man found guilty of the rape and murder of a 9-year-old Stella girl.

In recent years, law enforcement has had a new problem to deal with: synthetic marijuana, also called bath salts.