Tom Shively, the District 8 Missouri State Representative from Shelbyville, has been selected to receive the Agriculture Educators Lifetime Achievement Award at the December 7th and 8th Missouri Livestock Symposium in Kirksville.

The Wright Memorial Hospital Foundation Board met Tuesday evening for its final meeting of the 2012 year. Board member Cara McClellan gave a report of the inaugural Wright Run 5K/10K that took place on October 6 in Trenton.

The Trenton Kids Wrestling Club is currently holding sign-ups for wrestlers ages 5 through 15.

Trenton Police are looking for public assistance in determining WHO was driving what investigators believe to be a “high profile” vehicle that struck and damaged a parked car.

The Missouri Farm Bureau convention attracted some 1,500 delegates in their annual meeting held at Lake of the Ozarks. A series of contests were held at the convention on Sunday, with Brooke Novinger of Kirksville among the award winners, after winning the "talent contest".

Trenton, Green Castle, and Carrollton residents have been injured in separate traffic accidents over the past twenty-four hours.

Trenton High School wrestlers Carlos Gonzalez, Mason Mounce, and Jacob Spillman all placed first in the Marceline Tournament on Saturday. Each of the three was unbeaten in their weight class in the "A" pool. Gonzalez was 4-0 at 106 pounds, including a victory over a defending state champion.

An Humphreys man was hurt shortly after midnight on Saturday night when the minivan he was driving slid through a T-intersection in dense fog east of Trenton. Sixty-five year old Robert Spencer of Humphreys was taken to Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton, with what the Highway Patrol called minor injuries.

Three Chillicotheans were hurt late Saturday night near Utica when a car when off Highway 36 and came to rest in the median. Twenty-two year old Michael Lent, and 21-year old passengers Jesse Marshall and Richard Stimpson were taken to Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe, all with injuries described as MODERATE by the Highway Patrol.

A Gallatin resident was hurt in a weather-related accident when the pickup truck she was driving went through a T-intersection and overturned east of Gallatin. Sixteen-year old Kourtney Bird was taken to Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph with what the Highway Patrol called MODERATE injuries.

The North Missouri Sportsman's Alliance (NMSA) will be conducting two fund raisers during the first four and one-half months of 2013. The fund raisers will be held in lieu of the North Missouri Outdoor Classic, which the NMSA had used as its primary fund raiser the last five years. The Outdoor Classic will return to the Chillicothe area in March of 2014.

The Livingston County 4-H and FFA Fair Association, a non profit that supports and enhances educational activities for youth of Livingston County has received a donation of $5,000 from Chula Farmers’ Cooperative and CoBank as part of the bank’s “Sharing Success” program.

The Penney High School boy's basketball team came up short against Plattsburg on Monday night in the consolation semifinals of the KCI Conference Basketball Tournament in Lawson, bowing out of the event with an 0-2 record.

The fourth and final Mayor's Coffee of the year for Chillicothe is scheduled for Wednesday morning, December 5th, at the Elkhorn Restaurant in Chillicothe. The coffee is set to begin at 10 o'clock.

The Trenton Middle School 'A' basketball teams claimed a pair of victories on Monday night against the South Harrison Bulldogs, in games played at the TMS gymnasium. Behind a 15 point, 14 rebound performance by Whitley Richman, the girls took a 30-6 win, moving to 5-2 on the season. The boys had 10 points and 8 rebounds from Spencer Harris in a 34-18 win, also improving to 5-2 on the campaign.

Hunters checked 15,136 deer during Missouri’s antlerless deer season November 21 through December 2. This year’s antler-less harvest increased by 697 deer, a gain of approximately five percent over last year.

The Highway Patrol says a pickup truck backing up from a parking space hit a pedestrian at a Casey's General Store in Brunswick on Saturday. Fifty-four year old Cynthia Smith of Boonville was taken by medical helicopter to University Hospital in Columbia with what the Highway Patrol called MODERATE injuries.

A Gallatin resident was injured when the car she was driving went off Daviess County Route DD and hit two embankments. Thirty-four year old Stacey Collins of Gallatin was taken by private vehicle to Cameron Regional Medical Center with what the Highway Patrol called minor injuries.

The Highway Patrol says a young Kearney man was injured when a car, going the wrong direction on Interstate 35, hit a guardrail south of Cameron early Sunday morning. Eighteen year old Edward Stahl of Kearney was taken to Cameron Regional Medical Center with what the Highway Patrol called minor injuries.

The Meadville Eagles are off to a strong start to the 2012-2013 basketball season, winning last week's Northwestern Invitational Basketball Tournament in Mendon, taking all three games by double digit final margins.