LINCOLN COUNTY, Mo. – Former Lincoln County Sheriff’s Captain Mike Merkel was taken into custody Tuesday after a hearing where he pleaded not guilty and had his bond set at $50,000 cash only. Merkel ...

This might be the most famous modern Dateline case, and it even inspired the scripted series The Thing About Pam. In 2013, ...

TROY, Mo. | A woman from northwest Iowa has been charged with harassing a key witness in the murder case against Russell Faria, who recently won a retrial in the killing of his wife in Troy, Mo. Robin ...

TROY, Mo. • Almost four years after Russell Faria’s wife was stabbed to death, and two years after a jury found him guilty of her murder, the Lincoln County man will be back in court here Monday for a ...

TROY, Mo. • When a judge in Lincoln County acquitted a man Friday in his wife’s murder, it answered one question — whether Russell Faria would spend the rest of his life in prison. But many more ...