CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Cameron man who was accused of assaulting two women in 2021 in Camden County was found guilty of three felonies on Tuesday. Dustin Burkhart, 40, was found guilty of first-degree assault, first-degree burglary and armed criminal action. His sentencing will take place 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 9. He was previously
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A 46-year-old Fair Grove woman suffered serious injuries Wednesday in a single-vehicle crash in Camden County, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The crash occurred when a 1999 Pontiac Sunfire – driven by Melissa Bowles — was heading northbound on Lowell Williams Road, south of Charlie Creek Road,
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A 46-year-old Fair Grove woman suffered serious injuries in a single-vehicle crash Wednesday morning on Lowell Williams Rd, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol’s online crash report. According to Troopers, Melisa Bowles was driving northbound when her 1999 Pontiac Sunfire crossed the middle of the road and overcorrected. The vehicle
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CAMDENTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was arrested following a chase with law enforcement on Wednesday, according to a press release from the Camdenton Police Department. The man was not named in the release, but police say he was brought to the Camden County Jail. Police say in the release that an officer was patrolling on
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A former Camden County prosecutor’s office investigator used his position to intimidate another person in a dispute over damage to a van, court documents say.
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Sunrise Beach man has been charged after he was accused of causing a fatal boat crash in August at the Lake of the Ozarks. Bobby Gene Childers, 60, was charged on Monday with three boating while intoxicated charges: Causing the death of another, causing serious physical injury and causing physical
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Sunrise Beach man who was charged with stealing more than $25,000 was booked into the Camden County Jail on Thursday. Douglas Miller, 53, is being held at the Camden County Jail on a $70,000 bond. A court date has not been set. According to a heavily redacted probable cause statement,
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A Camden County businessman said Monday that he will seek to unseat an incumbent in the Missouri House.
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CAMDEN CO, Mo. (KMIZ) A St. Louis man was seriously injured in a single-vehicle car crash Friday night in Camden County. An online crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol states that Nicolas Sunderman, 18 was driving South on Route 7 at 10:20 p.m. The crash occurred when Sunderman overcorrected after his truck went
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A 17-year-old Macks Creek boy suffered serious injuries Friday in Camden County crash on Route Y, about 1,500 feet east of Fawn Meadows Drive, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report.. The teenager was not named in the report. The crash occurred as the teenager was heading east with
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CAMDENTON, Mo. (KMIZ) The jury trial for a Jefferson City man accused of a 2021 Memorial Day weekend shooting at Lazy Gators has been moved back to September Chad Tariq Brewer, 31, was charged with first-degree murder, delivery of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. He is being held at the Camden County Jail without bond.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education on Monday announced its first “Grown Your Own” grants aimed at recruiting teachers to area schools, according to a DESE press release. There were 125 local education agencies awards were awarded one-time $10,000 grants, according to the release. DESE set around $2.5 million in its
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Montreal, Missouri, man pleaded guilty on Monday to abandoning a corpse and was sentenced to four years in prison. According to previous reporting, Eric Cole, 41, was initially charged in 2022 with second-degree murder, stealing, abandonment of a corpse and conspiracy to commit a felony. Cole pleaded guilty before going
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CAMDEN, Mo. (KMIZ) A 60-year-old man was airlifted to University Hospital after hitting a deer on his motorcycle. John Edwards was seriously injured when he hit a deer on his Harley-Davidson a little before 6:30 on Friday Night. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash happened on Route D 79′ South of Rock
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Camden County Sheriff’s Office stated in a Friday press release that it has added a terrorism tip link to its website. The sheriff’s office stated the link was established in response to the ongoing Israel-Hamas War. The release states the system was set up under the Missouri Office of Homeland
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CAMDENTON, Mo. (KMIZ) The state of Missouri will not seek the death penalty against a Jefferson City man accused of a 2021 Memorial Day weekend shooting at Lazy Gators Camden County Prosecutor Richelle Grosvenor on Tuesday filed a notice of intent to waive the death penalty against Chad Tariq Brewer. Brewer, 31, was charged with first-degree murder,
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LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo. (KMIZ) A Camden County man nearly drowned at the Lake of the Ozarks Friday evening, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. An online drowning incident report states that Jared Hawkins, 31 was near the Miller Hollow Cove around six o’clock when he went into shallow water to try and
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An eastern Missouri motorcyclist suffered serious injuries when he crashed Friday afternoon in Camden County.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Local government and nonprofits in 33 Missouri counties will receive federal aid after President Joe Biden approved Gov. Mike Parson’s request for a “major disaster declaration,” according to a Thursday press release from the governor’s office. Federal aid will go to several counties, including Benton, Camden and Maries counties. Parson announced
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people suffered serious injuries in a three-vehicle crash Wednesday in Camden County on Highway 5 at Spencer Creek Road, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. According to the report, the crash occurred as a 2015 Chevrolet Impala – driven by Meldoy Yeary, 68, of Pontiac, Illinois –was
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