STUDENT TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AFTER SHOTGUN FOUND IN VEHICLE AT AREA SCHOOL

A student has been taken into custody after a gun was found in a vehicle at an area school.

Twin Rivers Superintendent Robert Brown tells KWOC News that Wednesday afternoon Twin Rivers High School officials had been alerted to a shotgun that was in the back seat of a student's vehicle in the school parking lot.

School personnel confirmed that the shotgun was in the unlocked vehicle and secured it without incident.

BERNIE RESIDENT WINS FIRST PLACE IN MISSOURI DNR PHOTO CONTEST

A Bernie resident has taken home first place in a statewide photo contest.

On Tuesday, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources announced the winners for the 2025 MoDNR Photo Contest.

Bernie’s Lyndsey Neely won 1st place in the People Enjoying Missouri’s Outdoors Category.

The photo featured a young child playing in the mud in the first Bernie cotton field.

SOUTHEAST MISSOURI MAN TO BE EXECUTED THIS WEEK FOR 2005 DEATH OF MSHP TROOPER

A southeast Missouri man is set to be executed this week for the murder of a Missouri State Highway Patrol Trooper.

Lance Shockley, of West Plains, was convicted in 2009 for the March 2005 shooting death of Sergeant Carl Graham Jr., who was investigating a fatal crash that involved Shockley.

Shockley was unanimously convicted of first-degree murder along with three aggravating factors. His case was reviewed and upheld by the Missouri Supreme Court, the federal district court, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.