A third student at Maryville High School has been charged in a teen-sex incident January 8th.

Court records show that Jordan Zech, 17, of Maryville was charged January 13 with sexual exploitation of a minor, a class B felony.

Zech is free on $10,000 bond.

Officials accuse Zech of using his cell phone to record another suspect prior to having sex kissing the 14-year-old victim while both were half naked

Two other people, including one minor, are charged with sexual assault and child endanderment for the incident. Matthew Barnett, 17, was charged last week. Court documents indicate Barnett admitted have intercourse with the girl, and says he then left her passed out in the yard of her home. Officials say she was there for a long time in temperatures of about 30 degrees.

A third suspect, age 15, was taken into custody at the same time as Barnett. His case is being handled confidentially within the juvenile court system.

Arraignment for Zech has not yet been scheduled. Barnett is scheduled to be arraigned on Feb. 14.

The Downtown Association is now taking float-registration forms and fees for St Joe’s 10th Mardi Gras parade, scheduled February 18.

The parade is co-sponsored by the St Joseph Downtown Association, K-JO 105.5 and Q Country 92.7.

Organizers stress this is an adult-oriented event, and all participants must be at least 18 years old to participate in the parade.

This year’s parade will follow the original route, from the Holiday Inn at Third and Felix to Coleman Hawkins Park.

Line-up for floats will begin at 6 p.m., with the parade following at 8 p.m.

If you or your group would like to enter a float in the parade, you may obtain a registration form by email to st.josephdowntown@yahoo.comm or by calling 816-233-9192. The cost is $50 per float.

You can also get an entry form at several downtown nightclugbs, including the Felix Street Pub, Hammerjacks, the Buffalo Bar, the Snakebite Club, The Rendezvous Bar, and Foster’s Martini Bar.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Supreme Court has thrown out the results of a blood test on an unwilling suspect in a routine drunken-driving stop, ruling the officer should have obtained a judge’s warrant for the test.

In a 2010 case from Cape Girardeau County, the court ruled Tuesday the warrantless test on the unwilling driver amounted to an unconstitutional search. The court said the simple fact that alcohol in blood dissipates over time doesn’t justify the failure to get a warrant.

The Supreme Court said there must be special circumstances to order a warrantless blood test – such as the officer’s involvement in a lengthy accident-scene investigation.

Cape Girardeau County assistant prosecutor Jack Koester says he plans to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

A Bethany man accused of murder and arson in the death of his 7-year-old son appeared in a Harrison County courtroom Tuesday.  Tony King waived his formal arraignment and is due back in court February 8th.

He remains behind bars under 250-thousand dollars bond.

King is charged with first degree murder, second degree arson, and felony child abuse.  The charges stem from a fire at the family’s mobile home January 11.  Investigators found young Jeremiah Lamm’s body in his bedroom after the fire was put out.  Lamm was King’s son.

The cause of that fire is still under investigation.

The Harrison County Sheriff’s Office, State Fire Marshal’s Office and Highway Patrol are investigating the case.

A student group from Central High School is auctioning off chairs to benefit the Noyes Home For Children. The DECA group, an association of marketing students is organizing its first ever “Chairs for Charity” event this Thursday.

Clubs, organizations and individual students have painted and decorated chairs that will be sold during a silent auction during a night of cookies, punch, artwork and charity. Proceeds will go to the Noyes Home.

The event is Thursday, January 19, starting at 6 p.m. at the cafeteria at Central High School. The public is invited and admission is free.

A St Joseph group finds high levels of pollution in local establishments allowing indoor smoking.

Details of the study by the University of Missouri were released Tuesday from Clean Air St. Joe. Find the complete report here.

The group says the study found 18 hospitality venue’s in St Joseph that allow smoking had very high levels in particulate matter pollution. That pollution, according to the EPA, can aggravate lung conditions such as asthma.

The study was conducted between July and December of last year. The collectors stayed for a drink or a meal, usually on a Friday or Saturday night and measured pollution levels with small device known as a SidePac.

The operator of the St Joseph License Office is responding to an indictment accusing 14 people of using bogus documents to obtain fraudulent IDs at the office.

A grand jury says some 3,500 driver’s and non driver’s licenses were issued to illegal immigrants over the course of two years.

Attorney James Montee says the management of the St Joseph License Office has been complaining to law enforcement at the local, state and federal level for years about people using bogus documents and interpreters to get driver’s licenses there.

Montee says his manager and partner is largely responsible for bringing the problems to light.

In a release faxed to area news agencies, Montee said manager Sandra Guttshall’s “repeated complaints to federal, state and local authorities finally resulted in sweeping arrests and indictments for efforts to obtain fraudulent IDs from the St Joseph License Office.”

Montee offered his congratulations to the law enforcement agencies involved.