Eminence Daily Digest Monday, July 27, 2026
Ty's Take
Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, but apparently not too long for Shannon County to finally move on what happened to Tory Sanders. Three people charged with murder, and now charges stacking up against the folks who wore badges back then, the ones who had the case in their hands when it mattered most. This is the kind of reckoning a small county has to work through in public, where everybody knows everybody and the wound never really closes until something like this happens. Whether these charges stick or fall apart, at least there's motion now instead of the quiet that's defined this place for nearly a decade. That's worth something.
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Weather Alerts
Heat Advisory
Heat Advisory issued July 27 at 3:24AM CDT until July 28 at 7:00PM CDT by NWS Springfield MO
* WHAT...For the Extreme Heat Warning, dangerously hot conditions with heat index values up to 115. For the Heat Advisory, heat index values up to 110 expected. * WHERE...Portions of southeast Kansas and central, east central, south central, southwest, and west central Missouri. * WHEN...For the E...
Extreme Heat Warning
Extreme Heat Warning issued July 27 at 3:24AM CDT until July 28 at 7:00AM CDT by NWS Springfield MO
* WHAT...For the Extreme Heat Warning, dangerously hot conditions with heat index values up to 115. For the Heat Advisory, heat index values up to 110 expected. * WHERE...Portions of southeast Kansas and central, east central, south central, southwest, and west central Missouri. * WHEN...For the E...
West Plains Daily Quill - Shannon County
Three charged with murder 8 years after Shannon Co. death
Three men from the Winona and West Plains area have been charged with second-degree murder nearly eight years after Robbie Crites, 20, was found dead in the Jacks Fork River in Eminence on June 16, 2018. The charges follow years of advocacy by Crites' mother, Angela King, who maintained her son had...
Charges mount against former Shannon Co. law enforcement staff
Two former Shannon County Sheriff's Office employees have been charged with felonies, bringing the total number of former staffers charged since November to five. Zane M. Robinson, a former jailer from Eminence, faces first-degree harassment charges for allegedly using his position to harass an...
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