The Rolla Rural Fire Department was busy this weekend with two, intentionally set fires and a water rescue.
The Phelps County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a suspect in connection with a suspicious fire Sunday afternoon at a double-wide mobile home on Highway HH, approximately five miles northwest of Rolla.

Despite a heat advisory with an index expected to peak at 110 degrees, neighbors, friends and relatives gathered Tuesday evening at 23 locations in Rolla as part of the National Night Out festivities.

Maries County Sheriff Doug DiNatale has released a composite sketch of the person who robbed the Maries County Bank of Vichy on Wednesday.
The sketch depicts a young, mustached man with sideburns wearing a round-brimmed camouflaged floppy hat and a purple Carhardt T-shirt with a pocket. He is described as a white male, approximately 6-feet tall, weighing about 200 pounds, with short brown hair.

The Phelps County Sheriff’s Department arrested a Doolittle man at his home Friday morning on a federal warrant charging him with maintaining a drug-involved premises, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of firearms in furtherance of drug-trafficking.

In response to two, unrelated burglaries, the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department arrested two Waynesville men on Thursday, charging both with burglary in the second-degree for allegedly committing the burglaries in homes located in Waynesville and rural Pulaski County.

Five persons – two adults and three children – were transported to Phelps County Regional Medical Center on Thursday after an accident Thursday morning.
A 1999 Ford Explorer, driven by Frankie L. Menefee, 23, of Bland was eastbound on Missouri Route 8 one-tenth of a mile south of St. James when it went off the right side of the road.

The Rolla Police Department received a tragic call Friday morning.
An unidentified person called in that a resident in a home on Turkey Run Road was possibly deceased.

A Chicago man, Anthony Cesar  Hervas, 20, tried to evade several different law enforcement agencies during a pursuit that began in St. Robert and ended about 300 yards into St. Louis County.

 Leonard J. Cook, Jr. pleaded guilty to on federal charges of possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Catherine L. Hanaway, Phelps County Prosecuting Attorney Courtney George and Rolla Police Chief Mark Kearse has said.

The St. James McDonald’s sustained major roof and ceiling damage Tuesday during an afternoon fire at the restaurant located at 108 N. Outer Road.

Three boys were apprehended Monday afternoon by deputies from the Phelps County Sheriff’s Department for allegedly shooting at cars with BB guns on Highway E in rural Rolla.

During the recent “Click It or Ticket” enforcement that ended Sunday, the Phelps County Sheriff’s Department issued a total of 145 citations.

According to University hospital of Columbia, a Rolla man, Benjamin Gates, is in good condition after an accident that occurred Tuesday morning.

Two St. Louis men have been arrested for the alleged burglary of Sinks Pharmacy on Wednesday night. Edward K. Shigemura, 60, and John E. Kichell, 54, were arrested for second-degree burglary and possession of burglars tools.

A local woman awoke Saturday morning to find her vehicle missing. The vehicle had been parked in front of her home on Burgher Drive on Friday night.