A Cameron resident, Troy Sloan, exhibited both the Grand Champion and Reserve Champion market lambs at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia. The Grand Champion crossbred lamb weighed 146 pounds, while the Reserve Champion lamb weighed 130 pounds.

Two people were hurt just south of Bethany when a car overturned onto the passenger side of the vehicle. The Highway Patrol said two passengers, 17-year old Brianna O'Neal and 16-year old Sierra Ash, both of Bethany, were taken by private vehicle to Harrison County Community Hospital in Bethany several hours after leaving the scene. Both girls were said (by the Patrol) to have MODERATE injuries.

A Gallatin man, operating an A-T-V, was involved in a private property accident on Thursday night. The highway patrol described injuries as SERIOUS for 71 year old William Boyd. He was flown by medical helicopter to North Kansas City Hospital.

Additional information has been announced from the FBI's Kansas City office regarding Wednesday afternoon's robbery of the Home Exchange Bank in Jamesport.

United States Senator Claire McCaskill, on Wednesday morning, announced that she has successfully worked with the Department of Homeland Security to obtain an exemption allowing Lauren Gray of Trenton to continue to legally stay in the U.S. and also to seek employment. Lauren will receive a two-year renewable deferral while she and her family continue to wait for Green Card Permanent residency in the U.S.

Click here to listen to Wednesday morning's conference call

Authorities are investigating a bank robbery that occurred this (Wednesday) afternoon at Jamesport. The incident happened about 2 o'clock at the Home Exchange Bank.

A portion of the Mercer County Public Water Supply District Number One is under a precautionary boil advisory. Repairs have been completed to a water main break west of Princeton.

Efforts to construct a walking trail by the right Memorial Hospital Foundation continue to progress.

The 20th annual dinner-auction and golf tournament for Farmers’ Electric’s Area Youth Benefit Fund (AYBF) raised just under $40,000 this year.

The village of Jameson has been added to communities with bans on open burning. Spokesman Jared Hogan of the Jameson Fire Protection District noted the burn ban coincides with one issued by the Daviess County Commission for all areas of that county. It was issued because of the continued extremely dry ground conditions and lack of significant rain. The ban on outdoor burning at Jameson will be in effect until further notice.

A Milan resident was hurt on Friday afternoon when the car he was driving ran off a road west of Milan, hit a utility pole, and overturned. Twenty-year old William Harrison was taken to Sullivan County Memorial Hospital in Milan with what the Highway Patrol called MODERATE injuries.

PAR Broadcast Group Sports Director Tom Johnson has spent this week getting the thoughts of Trenton High School's varsity fall sports coaches for the 2012 season. Click on "read more" to get to the links of the COMPLETE interviews done with football coach Wes Croy, golf coach Jeremy Austin, tennis coach Abby Gott, softball coach John Cowling, and volleyball coach Brett Ewald.

A woman arrested in Milan for the death of her newborn infant in Minnesota, entered a guilty plea on Wednesday while in court in Gaylord, Minnesota. Sources say 29 year old Amy Romero entered a plea of guilty to charges of second-degree manslaughter for abandoning her newborn daughter and leaving her outdoors to die in the woods near her Minnesota home in 2001.

An Omaha, Nebraska resident was fatally injured and four other persons received minor injuries in an Interstate 29 traffic accident yesterday near St. Joseph.

A Wheeling man died Wednesday morning in a private property accident in rural Livingston County. The highway patrol listed the victim as 33 year old Patrick Kinsella of Wheeling. The Livingston County Sheriff's Department reports that investigation has determined that in addition to the death, authorities are focusing on who might have been present at the time.

A Laredo woman was injured this (Wednesday) morning in a rollover accident six miles west of Chillicothe.

Two incumbents won re-nominations in contested races, two others lost Tuesday night as results filtered in from the Republican Primary election in Grundy County. The city of Trenton's sales tax issue lost by the narrowest of margins. It was a high voter turnout for a primary election – 46 percent.

Efforts continue to progress on raising funds for the construction of a walking trail by the Wright Memorial Hospital Foundation.

A state prison inmate pleaded guilty in federal court today to a tax refund scheme. Forty-five year old Kevin Dunham is an inmate at the Western Missouri Correctional Center in Cameron.

Open House meetings, and information on chronic wasting disease, are scheduled this month in Brookfield and Milan. They are among six sessions scheduled by the Missouri department of conservation.