STEELVILLE, Mo. -- James Crocker had grown weary of the partying canoeists and rafters who encroached on his neatly kept property along Missouri's Meramec River. When he caught a man about to relieve ...

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Missouri — A 65-year-old O’Fallon man died after falling out of a canoe and drowning on the Meramec River Wednesday, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. A report by the ...

A 48-year-old Missouri man died in a drowning on the Meramec River near Highway 109 on July 27. According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, Bryan Wilson and Angela Wilson, 50, were floating on a device ...

BOURBON, Mo. -- A pair of separate accidents have claimed the lives of three people on the Meramec River. The Missouri State Water Patrol says two St. Louis men were swept into deeper water while ...

A 20-year-old Texan drowned in a Missouri river that has earned a grim nickname from local officials, Missouri troopers say. The victim, from Austin, was in a raft on the Meramec River in Franklin ...

The 20-year-old, from Texas, is the third person to drown in the Meramec River this year, officials say. Getty Images/iStockphoto A 20-year-old Texan drowned in a Missouri river that has earned a grim ...