Fire & Foot Pursuit Keep MPSD Busy Sunday Night & Monday Morning Mexico Public Safety is releasing details on two house fires late last night (Sunday) and early this morning (Monday) along with a foot pursuit. The first fire was just before 8:00 last night (Sunday) in the 900 block of East Jackson and was…… Continue Reading
Mexico Man Found Guilty of Child Sex Crimes A seven woman, five man jury in Audrain County convicts a Mexico man of multiple child sex crimes Friday. Following four hours of deliberation, the jury found 36-year-old Gregory Saulnier guilty of rape, sodomy, statutory sodomy, three counts of child molestation and two counts of enticement of…… Continue Reading
KWWR Sports Report 2/6/23 The Mizzou Tigers Basketball teams both drop games over the weekend, one at home, one on the road. On the men’s side, Mississippi State topped the Tigers in Starkville, 63 – 52 Saturday. Yesterday, the women’s team hosted Alabama at Mizzou Arena and came up short, losing 76 – 69. Next…… Continue Reading
Bulldogs Lose at Midwest Showdown Shootout The Mexico Bulldogs and St. Louis University High Jr. Billikens met in the second game of the second day of the Ramey Basketball Midwest Showdown Shootout on Saturday in Harrisburg. SLUH (13-7) wasted little time in taking control of the game against a Bulldog squad that looked like it…… Continue Reading
Mexico Varsity Squads Split With Moberly The Mexico High School boys basketball team improved to 13-7 overall, and 5-1 in the North Central Missouri Conference, Friday night, with an 83-53 win over Moberly High School. The Bulldogs got off to a 7-0 run as senior guard Anthony Shivers hit a two from just inside the…… Continue Reading
KWWR Sports Report 2/3/23 The losing streak is over for the Mizzou Tigers women’s basketball team. They picked up a win over Vandy last night at Mizzou Arena, 86 – 69, led by Hayley Frank’s 25 points. Lauren Hansen had 22 points on the night and is now just 19 shy of 1,000 career points.…… Continue Reading
KWWR Sports Report 2/2/23 Mizzou improves to better than .500 in SEC play following last night’s win over LSU 87 – 77. The Tigers also set their SEC record with 26 assists while connecting on at least 13 3-pointers in a third straight game. Senior Kobe Brown led the team with 26 points while Noah…… Continue Reading
City of Springfield Announces Purchase of Hammons Field In a move to possibly keep the Springfield Cardinals in town, the City of Springfield, MO announced this afternoon (Wednesday) that it has bought Hammons Field from the Revocable Trust of John Q Hammons. The Trust had filed bankruptcy in 2016. When Major League Baseball took over…… Continue Reading
Community R-VI Trojans Boys Lose Tough Contest Tough night for the Community R-VI Trojans last night as they lost a ball handler early and struggled with pressure from Cairo. Turnovers hurt the Trojans as well, but Coach Shotten said a little adversity right now isn’t necessarily a bad thing with Districts just weeks away, hopefully…… Continue Reading
Drug Busts In Mexico Leads to Seizures of Methamphetamine Recent drug busts in Mexico land four Mexicoans in jail. According to the Audrain County Sheriff’s Department, they, the East Central Drug Task Force, Mexico Public Safety and the Missouri State Highway Patrol served two search warrants in the early morning hours Monday at two unrelated…… Continue Reading
