COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Rolla woman is accused of armed robbery at a convenience store on Friday. Samantha Feeler, 31, was charged with first-degree attempted robbery, first-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action. She is being held at the Phelps County Jail on a $250,000 bond. A confined docket hearing is
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Rolla man was charged in Phelps County after he was accused of pulling out a knife while trying to steal a couple of bags of Tyson chicken from a grocery store on Saturday. Sean Wildhaber, 23, was charged on Monday with first-degree robbery and armed criminal action. He is being held
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman accused of murder in the death of an 8-month-old girl in 2021 has been charged again. Jennifer Johnson, 49, was charged with misdemeanor sexual abuse in Phelps County after she allegedly exposed herself to another inmate at the jail. She is currently being held without bond. She is charged with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Rolla man was charged with first-degree rape and other charges in Phelps County on Thursday. Ronald Rehm Jr., 49, was charged with first-degree rape, two counts of first-degree sodomy and a count of third-degree domestic assault. He is being held at the Phelps County Jail without bond. A court date has
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The spelling of the suspect’s last name has been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Newberg man was charged Monday with first-degree murder and armed criminal action after his brother died in a shooting. Eric D. Colgrove, 55, was arrested Sunday night after a woman called 911, saying her sons were shooting at each
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A St. James man pleaded guilty on Thursday to second-degree murder and first-degree assault, according to a Friday social media post from the Phelps County prosecutor. Joseph Snow, 35, will be sentenced at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026, the post says. He was previously charged with first-degree murder, two counts of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former officer of the Doolittle Police Department has been charged with several child sex crimes. Carl Swanson, of St. James, was charged in Phelps County with first-degree child molestation, second-degree statutory rape and second-degree statutory sodomy. A warrant was served on Thursday and he posted a $250,000 bond, according to court
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An 82-year-old Rolla woman was seriously injured in a single-vehicle crash Thursday on Route HH in Phelps County, north of County Road 82270, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the woman drove a 2007 Buick Lucerne northbound and it went off the right side
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ROLLA, Mo. (KMIZ) Six months after an EF-2 tornado swept through the city of Rolla, signs of the destruction remain. Three Rolla Public Schools buildings, along with other RPS properties like the softball complex, were damaged in the storm. “We took four days off right after the tornado, and then that second week was our
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Phelps Health will be hosting a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday to celebrate the start of construction for its emergency department expansion project. The $60 million expansion will be 38,000 square feet, nearly doubling the size of the facility from 17,000 square feet. The goal of the expansion is to improve services for patients
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two dogs died after a home burned down in Phelps County, according to a Monday social media post from the Doolittle Fire Protection District. Crews were called to the Sportshaven area at the end of Private Drive at 3:30 p.m., but the two-story home already collapsed by the time crews arrived. No
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Editor’s note: Language in this article have been clarified. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A St. James man was charged Tuesday with child endangerment in a 2022 incident in a backyard swimming pool. The Phelps County prosecutor charged Carl E. Swanson on Tuesday with a single count of child endangerment resulting in serious injuries, a Class B
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Missouri man was sentenced on Wednesday for his role in a 2022 conspiracy to murder U.S. Border Patrol agents. Jonathan S. O’Dell, 35, of Warsaw, was sentenced to 165 years in federal prison without parole for more than 30 felonies this including conspiracy to murder a federal officer, escape from custody
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) More than 250 electric cooperative members in the Doolittle area were without power Tuesday afternoon after a truck snagged power lines in Phelps County. The truck snagged the lines along Interstate 44, according to a Facebook post from the Doolittle Rural Fire Protection District. The driving lane was closed. The Intercounty Electric
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people were injured Friday afternoon after a 2005 Toyota Tundra crashed on Interstate 44 in Phelps County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the truck was heading eastbound and went down the left side of the road. The driver – an 18-year-old woman
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 71-year-old woman from Florissant, Missouri, died in a Thursday afternoon crash on Interstate 44 in Phelps County at mile marker 172, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the crash occurred as the woman drove a 2022 Nissan Rogue Sport eastbound when it went
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PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Dixon man was seriously injured when the vehicle he was driving flipped over in Phelps County. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the crash occurred on Saturday just after 8 p.m. on Highway M, about 6 miles west of Edgar Springs. The 34-year-old man was driving a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was charged on Wednesday in Phelps County with first-degree rape. Emmanuel Sam, 23, of Rolla, is being held at the Phelps County Jail without bond. A court date has not been scheduled. The probable cause statement says that Sam is from Ghana and is in the U.S. to attend college.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman who drove a UTV in a crash that killed her husband in Maries County last month has been charged with a felony. Mary Dearlove, 61, of Rolla, was charged on Tuesday with driving while intoxicated – causing the death of another person, misdemeanor reckless driving and an infraction of failing
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 45-year-old Rolla woman was seriously injured in a crash Thursday afternoon in Phelps County at the 175-mile marker of eastbound Interstate 44, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The single-vehicle crash occurred as the 2020 Toyota Tacoma went off the right side of the road, the
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