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Two charged with kidnapping

Timothy Norton and James Phelps allegedly kept a woman in a cage at a Moon Valley Road home

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Two Lebanon men face charges in Dallas County in connection with kidnapping and terrorizing a woman with ties to Laclede and Dallas counties. Timothy Norton, 56, and James Phelps, 58, are charged with kidnapping, inflicting injury and terrorizing in the first degree. A judge ordered both men held without bond. The alleged victim, Cassidy Rainwater, 33, has been missing since July 25. For more on this story see Wednesday's LCR.