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Governor Mike Kehoe, on Thursday, signed six bills into law which highlight families, first responders and military service members. Arguably, the two appearing the most in the headlines over the process, were House Bills 1740 and 1830.

Lake Area Power Outages (as of 9:30 A.M.) MILLER COUNTY…1,591 Ameren       1,516 Gascosage  0,075 MORGAN COUNTY…523 Como         434 Ameren     089 Previous Article

In observance of the nation’s 250th, before the storm hit this past weekend, dozens of adults and kids gathered at the stage in Luby’s Plaza in Lake Ozark for a reading of the Declaration of Independence. The event was introduced to the Bagnell Dam Strip Association (BDSA) by volunteer Nancy Koeppen marking the first celebration of its kind in Lake Ozark.

What started out in Sunrise Beach as a reported physical domestic dispute with alcohol being a contributing factor escalated into a multi-agency search for a missing person and one subject taken into custody. The domestic was reported around 7:00 Monday night with a separate report received around 9:30 calling for first responders to assist the Camden County Sheriff’s Office in a search for a missing person, possibly in the water, along Hickory Hollow Drive off Route-MM.

With the recent power outages following the July 4th storm, the Sunrise Beach Fire District is issuing a warning about generator use which is blamed for a garage fire. Chief Joseph LaPlant says crews were called just before 8:00 Monday morning to the working fire on Michales Cove Road and upon arrival all occupants were out of the attached house and personnel cut out a garage door to access the fire inside. It took about 15 minutes to bring the fire under control.

All News RSS Feed Severe Weather Top Stories 0215 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     2 ESE Sunrise Beach     07/04/2026   Camden             MO LASS report and video of trees down and 70 mph winds estimated. Osage beach development office for topsiders. 0230 PM   Tstm Wnd Dmg   2 S Olean               07/04/2026                   Miller             MO Large tree branches broken off tree. Trees fallen.

Severe storms that are rolling through the lake area have caused damage and power outages across the region. Several thousand are without power at the moment. There are reports of down trees all across the region. KRMS is assessing damage and will report further when able. Currently our stations are off the air due to the outages. The storms will continue and it is recommended that you go inside and stay in a sturdy shelter until the storms pass.

It doesn’t take very long for the first couple of water-related incidents to be reported for the holiday weekend’s official counting period at Lake of the Ozarks. The first happened just before 8:00 Thursday night when a 58-year-old man from Topeka, Kansas, was out on the water when he struck a bridge pillar near Little Island Drive in Camden County. The man escaped with minor injuries and was treated at Lake Regional.

A two-vehicle accident involving a UTV takes the life of 73-year-old Lebanon man. The highway patrol says it happened around 4:30 Thursday afternoon in the 15,000 block of highway-64 when the man pulled from a private drive on the UTV into the path of an eastbound SUV driven by a 19-year-old woman, also from Lebanon. The 73-year-old was not wearing a helmet and was pronounced dead on the scene. The other driver suffered moderate injuries and was taken to Lake Regional Hospital.

A 58-year-old from Topeka, Kansas, is injured when the watercraft he was riding too close to a bridge pillar hit the pillar. The highway patrol says it happened shortly before 8:00 Thursday night near Little Island Drive in Camden County. The man was wearing a life jacket and suffered minor injuries. He was taken to Lake Regional Hospital.