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Monday, December 17, 2012

O'Fallon Man Killed in ATV Accident on Sunday

Accident occurred on Paris Branch Road in Lincoln County.

An O'Fallon man is dead after the ATV he was riding flipped and ejected him and two others from the vehicle on Sunday morning.  According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Bradley M. Ballman, 26, O'Fallon was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident on Paris Branch Road in Lincoln County.  Passenger Thomas S. Loeffer, 25, Troy, was airlifted to Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur with serious injuries. Driver Ryan J. Ehlmann, 22, Troy was transported to St. Joseph's Hospital with moderate injuries.   

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

O'Fallon Woman Ejected From Car in Crash

According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the accident occurred on North Ridge Road on Saturday, Nov. 17.

An O'Fallon woman was seriously injured in a car wreck in Lincoln County over the weekend.  According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Allison M. Rodgers, 18, O'Fallon, was traveling on North Ridge Road just south of Hardy Road around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 17, when her car failed to negotiate a curve. The report states the 2002 Oldsmobile Alero traveled off the right side of the road and overturned, ejecting Rodgers from the car.  Rodgers suffered from serious injuries and was transported to Mercy Medical Center by Air Evac. 

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Man Charged with Kidnapping, Terrorizing Woman at Community College

An Elsberry man forced his ex-girlfriend into her car and drove around campus, threatening to kill her and himself, police report.

An Elsberry man was charged last week in St. Charles County Circuit Court with kidnapping and terrorizing a woman in a Feb. 8 incident near St. Charles Community College. Jon Paul Heinz, 22, is accused of forcing a 19-year-old woman into her car and threatening to shoot her and himself while driving around the Cottleville campus. He also told her he would hang himself in front of her so she could watch him die. The woman, Heinz’s former girlfriend who had broken up with him recently, tried to escape several times but Heinz restrained her, according to a St. Charles Community College Police report. Heinz also asked her to remove her coat and clothes, according to the report. The woman told police she took off her coat, but not her clothes. …

Rick Meyer

4:35 pm on Thursday, April 19, 2012

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Friday, July 8, 2011

They don't want to be No. 1

St. Charles County joins a four-county effort to require prescriptions for cold medications containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine. Missouri is rated the largest meth producing state in the nation.

Officials in St. Charles County and three surrounding counties will seek to require a prescription for sales of cold medications with ephedrine or pseudoephedrine. Jefferson, Franklin and Lincoln counties also will seek to pass an identical law. Officials from all four counties joined together to announce the effort in a news conference Thursday afternoon at the St. Charles County Executive Building. The law will be presented as a health issue. If it passes, it will affect all municipalities within each of the counties. St. Charles County Council Chairman Joe Brazil, R-2nd District, said the bill will be introduced locally on Monday. He said six of seven St. Charles County Council members support the bill. Other county officials also said …

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