Missouri Water Patrol

A Hartsburg, Missouri woman is seriously hurt in a boating mishap on Mark Twain Lake near Stoutsville just after 3 p.m. Saturday.

Five are hurt and one is ticketed in four traffic crashes and a boating mishap in northeast Missouri and western Illinois over the weekend.

A Warrenville, Illinois man who was seeking adventure a la Tom and Huck rafting on the Mississippi, got a little too adventurous Friday.

The search continued Monday for boater reported missing near Alexandria Sunday night.

An attorney for a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper who criticized the agency after a handcuffed Iowa man fell from a patrol boat and drowned in the Lake of the Ozarks says it is a conflict for state Attorney General Chris Koster to represent police in a lawsuit involving his client.

A St. Louis area family was rescued from a flooded Marion County road Sunday afternoon.

Shane Jaeger has seen a lot of rescues in his 15 years with the Hannibal Fire Department. Now he knows all too well what it’s like to be rescued.

Authorities say fewer people died on Missouri's roads and waterways last year.

Searchers located a body in the Mississippi River Monday afternoon near LaGrange.

Missouri lawmakers are gathering more testimony on the wisdom of the decision three years ago to make the Water Patrol a division of the State Highway Patrol.