GASCONADE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) One person is dead and another seriously injured after a motorcycle crash in Gasconade County Saturday evening, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The report says the crash occurred on U.S. 50, half a mile east of Cave Hill Road, shortly after 5 p.m. on Saturday. A 2007
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was charged in Gasconade County after he allegedly admitted to shooting his brother on Monday in the 3000 block of Idel Road near Rosebud. Carson Adams, of Rosebud, was charged with first-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action. He was detained and a $50,000 bond was set. His mother Cynthia
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Franklin County judge has ruled that no filming or recording will be allowed in the trial for a man accused of killing a Hermann police officer. The judge ruled on Friday in the case of Kenneth Simpson after hearing arguments on Tuesday on multiple motions, including to manage media coverage. Simpson
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Prosecutors in Gasconade County have charged a Maries County man with two felonies after a crash that killed two people Sunday night. Tyler C. Schmidt of Belle was charged Tuesday with DWI causing two deaths and DWI causing serious physical injury. It wasn’t clear on Tuesday morning whether he was in custody.
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Two people have died after a crash on Sunday night in Gasconade County.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) There were 530 Macon Electric Cooperative customers without power on Monday evening as storms entered the area, according to the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives outage map. Severe thunderstorm warnings were issued around 10 p.m. in Randolph and Macon counties. Outages were reported for Ameren customers around Mid-Missouri, with 41 and 40
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Hermann man was charged with first-degree murder in Gasconade County on Friday. Court filings say a warrant was served on Friday to David Luecke Jr. He is being held on a $500,000 bond. A court date has not been scheduled. A mugshot was not immediately available. The probable cause statement says
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Bland, Missouri man is facing a first-degree murder charge in connection with a homicide in Gasconade county earlier this year. According to a social media post from the Gasconade County Sheriff’s Office, David M. Lueke Jr., of Bland, Missouri was arrested Friday. He’s being held in the Franklin County Adult Detention
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 40-year-old Hermann man was seriously injured on Klott Road .08 miles east of First Creek Road in Gasconade County Friday night according to an MSHP crash report. The crash happened around 9:20 p.m. when a 1998 Jeep Cherokee was driving East when it failed to make a turn on a curve
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Missouri State Highway Report crash report gives a possible reason for why a trolley holding more than 40 people crashed in May in Gasconade County. On Saturday, May 3, a trolley bus carrying 41 passengers veered off the road, injuring 32 people. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the accident
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A motorcyclist was seriously injured in a crash Saturday in Gasconade County near 2113 on Missouri Highway 19. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The report says the driver of a 2005 Big Dog Chopper motorcycle – a 51-year-old Rhineland man – was driving southbound at around 12:19 a.m.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 30-year-old Hermann woman was seriously injured Friday in a crash on Highway 100 in Gasconade County, about 1,000 feet from Cole’s Creek Road, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says that the 2006 Dodge Ram was heading eastbound when it went off the left
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GASCONADE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Bison, Oklahoma man was injured after trying to avoid a deer on his motorcycle in Gasconade County Saturday night. A Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report says it happened around 8:15 p.m, on Route Z, west of Horstmann Road. The 48-year-old man was riding a 2024 Harley Davidson Street Glide
Continue Reading GASCONADE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Nearly a week after a trolley crash in Hermann injured more than 30 people, local first responders and hospital officials say the outcome could have been far worse without a critical partnership formed in 2022. On Saturday, May 3, a trolley bus carrying 41 passengers veered off the road, injuring 32
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 78-year-old man died after he was in a single-vehicle crash early Tuesday on Route N in Gasconade County, south of Highway 100, a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol says. The report says the Morrison man was driving his 2025 Polaris Ranger southbound when he suffered a medical issue.
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GASCONADE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Dozens of people were injured when a shuttle bus crashed in Gasconade County Saturday morning. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, 32 people were injured in the crash that occurred at 10:45 a.m. on Missouri 100. The report states the driver of the bus, a 45-year-old man from
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Steelville man who is accused of killing a Hermann police officer will have the jury in his murder trial pooled from Greene County. Kenneth Simpson is charged with first-degree murder, two counts of armed-criminal action, first-degree assault, two counts of unlawful gun possession, unlawful possession of an illegal weapon, possession of
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 17-year-old boy was killed in a Gaconade County crash Wednesday on Highway 19, about a half mile south of Aufderheide Road, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The report states that the Berger, Missouri, teenager was driving a 2010 Ford northbound when it went off the right side
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Three Rivers Electric Cooperative is asking its customers to conserve energy after the recent cold spell made its grid experience “maximum load.” The cooperative – which serves Cole, Maries, Miller, Gasconade, Osage and Moniteau counties – asked its customers on social media Thursday to try to conserve energy from 6-10 a.m. Friday.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An elderly man was killed and two people were seriously injured after a dump truck crashed into a home Tuesday morning at 305 East Lincoln Ave. in Owensville, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. According to the report, a 2006 Western Star Dump Truck was heading westbound on Highway
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