by admin | Jul 6, 2009 | Transportation
The Missouri Water Patrol reports three people died on Missouri waterways over the holiday weekend. Ashley Gustafson, age 16, of Hollister, died early this morning after being pulled out of four feet of water at Table Rock Lake Sunday....
by admin | Jun 29, 2009 | Crime / Courts
As a part of Operation Dry Water, a nationwide campaign to enforce safer boating, the Missouri State Water Patrol conducted five sobriety check points throughout the state over the weekend, June 26 through 28. The check points were in conjunction with a...
by admin | May 26, 2009 | News
Three people died on Missouri waterways over the Memorial Day weekend. Sergeant Jerry Callahan with the Missouri State Water Patrol says Sridhar Tekula, 27, and Suresh Merumu, 30, of St. Louis drowned while swimming on the Meremac in Franklin...
by admin | Mar 18, 2009 | Politics / Govt
On the heels of Governor Nixon announcing several department leadership appointments, Missouri’s Water Patrol commander is retiring after serving almost 30 years. Missouri Water Patrol Commander Rad Talburt says he was told Friday that the Governor wanted to put...
by admin | May 26, 2008 | Transportation
Divers recovered the body of a 9-year-old boy killed in a helicopter crash at the Lake of the Ozarks Sunday night. State Water Patrol Captain Matt Walz says divers found the body of Zachary West of Eureka still in the wreckage. He couldn’t free himself from the...
