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Jefferson County Leader - April 30

Jefferson County Leader - April 30

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Three people perform CPR on woman at gas station
Local News
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Three people perform CPR on woman at gas station

  • By Tony Krausz
  • Dec 11, 2025
  • 3 min to read

Jessica Gansmann has no memory of what happened last month when she suffered a sudden cardiac event at an Imperial gas station.

Good news: Imo’s employee who performed CPR on ailing customer honored by Festus officials
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Good news: Imo’s employee who performed CPR on ailing customer honored by Festus officials

  • By Kevin Carbery
  • Dec 24, 2024

Festus Mayor Sam Richards at the Monday, Dec. 23, Festus City Council meeting presented a plaque to Britne Howard declaring today, Dec. 24, “B…

UPDATED: Festus Imo’s Pizza restaurant employee performs CPR on patron with medical issue
Business
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UPDATED: Festus Imo’s Pizza restaurant employee performs CPR on patron with medical issue

  • By Kevin Carbery
  • Nov 19, 2024

UPDATED STORY: When an 83-year-old De Soto man experienced a medical emergency at the Imo’s Pizza restaurant, 1176 E. Gannon Drive, in Festus …

Girl saved from drowning in Herculaneum
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Girl saved from drowning in Herculaneum

  • By Kevin Carbery
  • Jul 16, 2024

Three bystanders and a Herculaneum Police officer saved an 8-year-old girl from drowning on July 10, Chief Sharia Kyle reported.

Girl saved from drowning in Big River expected to live
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Girl saved from drowning in Big River expected to live

  • By Leader staff
  • Jun 15, 2022

A 4-year-old girl who was rescued from the Big River in Dittmer on June 12 is expected to survive, authorities reported.

Wildwood resident saved by early CPR
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Wildwood resident saved by early CPR

  • By Katelyn Mary Skaggs
  • Feb 9, 2022

Jack “Matt” Kirchner said he feels lucky to be alive.

Good Samaritans perform CPR after man collapses in Eureka
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Good Samaritans perform CPR after man collapses in Eureka

  • By Katelyn Mary Skaggs
  • Aug 27, 2020

A Eureka-area business owner and a 2016 Eureka High graduate used their knowledge of CPR to help save a man’s life, the Eureka Fire Protection…

Update: Hillsboro man dies after suffering medical condition and taken to hospital in ambulance that was involved in minor accident on Hwy. Y
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Update: Hillsboro man dies after suffering medical condition and taken to hospital in ambulance that was involved in minor accident on Hwy. Y

  • By Leader staff
  • Aug 10, 2020

A Hillsboro man died early Aug. 8, less than an hour after he was taken to Mercy Hospital Jefferson in Crystal City by an ambulance that while…

Passerby gives CPR to man found on ground outside Twin City Walmart
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Passerby gives CPR to man found on ground outside Twin City Walmart

  • By Leader staff
  • Apr 13, 2020

A Good Samaritan found a 70-year-old Festus man lying on the parking lot outside the Twin City Walmart at about 1:45 p.m. April 10 and gave hi…

De Soto woman dies in Jefferson County Jail
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De Soto woman dies in Jefferson County Jail

  • By Kim Robertson
  • Oct 13, 2018

Felicia Marler, 38, of De Soto was found dead Wednesday morning (Oct. 10) in the Jefferson County Jail in Hillsboro, where she was being held …

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• Jefferson County Leader: ISSN 3064-948X (Print) ISSN 3064-9498 (Online) • Arnold-Imperial Leader: ISSN 2998-078X (Print) ISSN 2998-0798 (Online) • West Side Leader: ISSN 2998-0828 (Print) ISSN 2998-0836 (Online) • Eureka Leader: ISSN 2998-0801 (Print) ISSN 2998-081X (Online)

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