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A Nixa man started serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex crimes against a child in 2020. Donald Whitworth, 69, made an Alford plea to a charge of statutory sodomy with a person less than 12 years of age, and two charges of first-degree child molestation. An Alford plea occurs when a defendant in a criminal court case declines to admit guilt, but admits that prosecuting attorneys have enough evidence mounted against him/her to result in a conviction if the case were to go through a trial. Christian County Presiding Judge Laura Johnson sentenced Whitworth to 10 years in prison on the sodomy...

Autopsy ordered after inmate dies Sunday in Columbia COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An autopsy is planned after an inmate from the Fulton Reception and Diagnostic Center died. The State Department of Corrections tells ABC 17 news 58-year-old Randall Tangen was pronounced dead on Sunday at a hospital in Columbia. Tangen was serving his fourth year of a 10-year sentence at the prison in Fulton for first- and second-degree burglary charges from Saline County. No other details bout Tangen's death were released. Boone / Columbia / News / Saline