Following Washington’s lead, New Haven received 75 electric scooters on June 1 from Lime Scooters that can be rented through a smartphone. 

A new city hall, a veterans memorial and a renovated pool are coming to New Haven. All of this will be on Highway 100 near Park Drive where the former pool is.

A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for this fall in the case of a 23-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a Franklin County child in her bedroom. 

Glenn to cover education, business as Skipworth expands paper's coverage of city governments

Hundreds of children around Franklin County are receiving free breakfasts and lunches through local public school districts’ distributions this summer, and the meals are not limited to students.

Franklin County officials would like to use federal COVID-19 stimulus money to improve emergency communication services, but they need to make sure it’s an allowable expenditure.

Officials with the Scenic Regional Library have begun repealing some restrictions that were implemented during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and have announced when the remaining restrictions will be lifted.  

Next week’s scheduled two-day jury trial for a man charged with multiple sex crimes has been canceled, according to electronic court records. 

Lime scooters are coming to New Haven.

Criminal charges were filed Tuesday against a man who authorities say sexually assaulted a 6-year-old Franklin County child in her bedroom. 

Representatives serving Franklin County were split on a fuel tax increase that was approved this week by the state Legislature.

The first grand jury impaneled in Franklin County since the COVID-19 pandemic has issued 26 criminal indictments.

Franklin County Commissioners want to show support for the right to own guns.

Several years ago, Union’s National Day of Prayer consisted of a dozen people gathered on the steps of City Hall.

Franklin County is considering more purchases to ready the old courthouse to once again host jury trials.

A man formerly from the Beaufort area was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison Thursday for selling a lethal opiate cocktail that killed a Franklin County woman and for stealing railroad car bracing.

A Labadie man who is accused of statutory sodomy and furnishing pornographic material to someone younger than 18 will have two separate jury trials this fall, according to electronic court records.

Transportation advocates learned this week that the Missouri Department of Transportation is nearly ready to hire a third-party consultant to lead a study on the Highway 100 corridor from Washington to Villa Ridge. 

It was a phone call that Second Blessings Food Pantry President Becki Gillihan never expected to receive. 

Since its start, the local event has raised around $325,000

By Geoff Folsom

Area law enforcement agencies are asking for help in tracking down a man who has not been seen or heard from in over a week. 

After repeated problems, Franklin County is ditching its Kronos workforce management software and returning to its previous provider, Automatic Data Processing Inc. (ADP).

The National Weather Service in St. Louis has issued a freeze warning for the area from 1-9 a.m. Wednesday.

Franklin County is trying to figure out what to do with land it owns that nobody wants.

There will be no jury trials in the 20th Circuit Court until at least June 1, 2021, according to a statement from court officials. 

A provision that would eliminate emissions inspection requirements in Franklin County and two other area counties has passed the state Senate but could still face an uphill battle.

Within the art of winemaking, the land, fruit and time intertwine.

Below are the general election results for Franklin County's contested races in Washington, Union, Sullivan, St. Clair and Pacific with 38 of the county's 38 precincts reporting election returns.

An unwelcome, expensive and possibly illegal surprise was the topic of discussion at an emergency city meeting Thursday night in New Haven. The Board of Aldermen and other city officials met to discuss a quadruple increase in the price of the city’s natural gas in February compared to Januar…

Lent is about self-control, but the county’s fish fries make the next 40 days of restraint easy to swallow. These Friday dinners are in abundance through the start of April.

Neither a fire nor a pandemic kept St. Vincent de Paul in Dutzow from hosting its Lenten fish fry.

Attorney: Child Was Abused Over 200 Times

After a record turnout in the November 2020 election, Franklin County Clerk Tim Baker is expecting a more quiet lead up to the municipal voting Tuesday, April 6.