Families have confirmed the identities of two men killed in a light plane crash west of Cameron earlier this week. Independence residents Ronald Strahm and J. C. Waters were doing a fly-over of a farm home when their plane crashed into a field.

One of three men who telephoned elderly people and falsely told them their grandchildren were in Mexican hospitals or jails, and needed money for treatment or bond, has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison. Jerome Mills of Berkeley and the other two got 85-thousand dollars out of their calls., He’s been ordered to repay 49-thousand dollars. Mills has refused to identify the other two men involved.

Lawyers for Kansas City Catholic Bishop Robert Finn are asking a judge to dismiss four charges filed against Finn last fall–charging the law on failing to report child abuse is unconstitutionally vague. They also want the judge to have Finn tried separately from the diocese if the case moves to trial.

A St.Charles man has accepted 70-thousand dollars to settle his civil rights lawsuit against three St. Charles County law enforcement officers.The man, Phillip Albertnet, filed the suit after his arrest in 2009, claiming officers had put him in a headlock and punched and kicked him. At the time Albertnet was wanted on charges of making meth and child endangerment.

The ex-husband of a St. Louis woman has been sent to prison for eight years for cyberstalking and extortion after publicizing nude pictures and sexual videos of the woman–he also demanded 100-thousand dollars from her for shutting down the website.

A federal judge who sentenced Joshua Petrovic has called his denials and excuses “stupid,vile”…and “ignorant.”