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NASA astronaut spots rocket she rode from plane
National

NASA astronaut spots rocket she rode from plane

  • By Talker News
  • Sep 30, 2025

"What’re the chances?! I looked out my airplane window and saw a very familiar sight."

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Three Jefferson County schools to compete in national rocketry competition
Local News
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Three Jefferson County schools to compete in national rocketry competition

  • By Tony Krausz
  • May 17, 2024
  • 3 min to read

Jefferson County will be represented by three schools in the 22nd annual American Rocketry Challenge on Saturday in The Plains, Va., just outs…

92-year-old pilot takes to the skies again
Local News
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92-year-old pilot takes to the skies again

  • By Laura Marlow
  • Jul 20, 2022

When former Jefferson Countian Marlis Thum, 92, answered a survey asking residents at the assisted living facility where she now lives about t…

Hillsboro man, Arizona woman hurt in UTV crash near Horine
Accidents
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Hillsboro man, Arizona woman hurt in UTV crash near Horine

  • By Leader staff
  • Jul 27, 2021

A Hillsboro man was seriously hurt Sunday afternoon (July 25) when he was riding in a utility vehicle that crashed at Hwy. Z and Victory Drive…

Help from Above: Local priests will take to the air for special prayer flight
Coronavirus
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Help from Above: Local priests will take to the air for special prayer flight

  • By Laura Marlow
  • Mar 24, 2020

Within the Catholic faith, a Eucharistic blessing processional is a long tradition. A priest carries the consecrated host from one church to a…

Two seriously injured in head-on crash on Lynch Road
Accidents
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Two seriously injured in head-on crash on Lynch Road

  • By Leader staff
  • Feb 16, 2020

Two people were seriously injured and another moderately hurt in a two-vehicle traffic accident early Saturday evening (Feb. 15) on Lynch Road…

High Ridge man seriously hurt after truck goes off road
Accidents
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High Ridge man seriously hurt after truck goes off road

  • By Steve Taylor
  • Sep 22, 2019

A High Ridge man was seriously injured in a single-vehicle traffic accident early Sunday morning (Sept. 22) in High Ridge.

Festus man, 21, dies in crash near Mapaville
Accidents
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Festus man, 21, dies in crash near Mapaville

  • By Steve Taylor
  • Jul 28, 2019

A Festus man died Saturday morning (July 27) in a single-vehicle accident on Mapaville Hematite Road in the Mapaville area west of Festus.

De Soto man seriously hurt in UTV accident
Accidents
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De Soto man seriously hurt in UTV accident

  • By Steve Taylor
  • Sep 23, 2018

A De Soto man was seriously hurt early Sunday morning (Sept. 23) after the utility vehicle he was riding in ran off the right side of Long Roa…

De Soto man, St. Louis woman hurt in single-car accident in De Soto
Accidents
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De Soto man, St. Louis woman hurt in single-car accident in De Soto

  • By Tony Krausz
  • Feb 9, 2018

Chase D. Mabrey, 26, of De Soto and Melissa A. Teasley, 33, of St. Louis were hurt Thursday morning (Feb. 8) when the car they were traveling …

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