PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (July 2, 2009) — Local law enforcement personnel want to make sure that those who want to drink this weekend in Pulaski County don’t get behind the wheel of a car. Representatives of the state patrol and city police from St. Robert and Waynesville announced in recent weeks that they’ll be conducting drunk driving patrols over the Independence Day weekend. At Thursday afternoon’s meeting of the Waynesville Police and Emergency Services Committee, Police Chief Bob Carter said all three agencies will be conducting drunk driving enforcement activities in their jurisdictions, staggered at different times during the weekend beginning Friday. “We wish everybody a good holiday, but at the same time we are going to do a DWI saturation patrol that we signed up for with the state,” Carter said. “Don’t quote me on the times, but I know ours are offset so we can assist each other if need be.” Click here to read more on Pulaski County Daily News ...
 
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July 2009 gas prices - Updated Wednesday 7/1
Gas prices continued their downward trend in the Fort Leonard Wood area this week though the high and low gasoline price for Wednesday, 7/1, both remained unchanged with a high price of $2.599 at one gas station and the low price of $2.39 at one gas station. The low price has been unchanged since Tuesday 6/30. The high price has remained at that level since June 19. Other prices at gas stations along the I-44 corridor in Pulaski County trended downward, with two stations decreasing prices from Tuesday to Wednesday by margins of up to four cents and no stations raising prices. Prices were substantially up from a week ago with eleven stations dropping prices up to 10 cents. Click to see a chart with a complete table of 16 area gas station prices. Click here to read more on Pulaski County Daily News ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD/WAYNESVILLE/RICHLAND, Mo. (June 30, 2009) — The area’s largest fireworks show is at Fort Leonard Wood, which relaxes its regulations for visitors on July 4 for those who want to attend the evening fireworks event or the annual Soldier Show which will be held before the fireworks. The show begins at 9 p.m., around nightfall, and is preceded by the Salute to the Union at 7 p.m. and the Soldier Show at 7:30 p.m. Earlier in the afternoon, concessions, games and other activities for children and adults begin at 3 p.m. and run through the evening. For those who don’t want to come on Fort Leonard Wood, Waynesville United Methodist Church, located off Highway T in West Waynesville, holds its own fireworks celebration at 9 p.m. preceded by a community celebration with games, prizes, music and food running from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Another celebration will be held the following week in Richland with events beginning at 5 p.m. and fireworks at dusk. Click here to read more on Pulaski County Daily News ...
 
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Arraignments of Christopher B. Wright, John Ray Davis II, Joann Rutherford, Carl A. Terry, and Matthew Edward Waage before Associate Circuit Colin Long on June 26, 2009.  Click here to read more on Pulaski County Daily News ...
 
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Waynesville firefighters assist at a Friday afternoon crash.

Two wrecks send three injured people to area hospitals on Friday evening
WAYNESVILLE/RICHLAND, Mo. (June 27, 2009) — Two car wrecks on Friday sent three people to area hospitals. The first, a two-vehicle crash on Historic Route 66 in Waynesville near the Bank of Iberia and Waynesville Cinema, tied up traffic for nearly half an hour as people were leaving work. Waynesville Rural Fire Chief Doug Yurecko said his firefighters were called at 4:45 p.m. to a wreck between a black Jeep Laredo 4x4 and a brown Chevrolet S-10 pickup with major rear-end damage to its pickup truck bed, which was crumpled by the force of impact. Two patients who had been in the pickup were transported to General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital by Pulaski County Ambulance District personnel; the occupants of the Jeep Laredo were not hurt. The Waynesville police report isn't finished so names and any citations were not immediately available. Later that evening, Tri-County firefighters from Richland and Pulaski County Ambulance District personnel responded to a 10 p.m. report of a rollover wreck northwest of Richland with a vehicle resting against a bluff. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol reports, Amanda R. Minges, 22, of Lake Ozark, was eastbound in a 1991 Honda on Route A at Torinado Springs in Camden County when she failed to negotiate a curve to the left, exited the left side of the roadway and overturned, suffering moderate injuries and totaling her vehicle. Click here to read more on Pulaski County Daily News ...
 
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