A workshop designed for participants to learn more about Medicare is scheduled for Wednesday, May 9th in Gallatin.

Water lines are scheduled for flushing on Thursday and Friday in Gilman City. The city says water customers are advised NOT to wash laundry those two days because of possible discolored water. However, the city of Gilman City said the water WILL NOT be harmful.

Three people from Cameron were taken to a hospital after they were injured on Wednesday morning in a traffic accident four miles north of Cameron.

A truck driver from Breckenridge escaped injury in a two-vehicle crash on Monday afternoon in Pettis County that claimed the life of a Marshall woman.

The Trenton High School boy's golf team has advanced to the Class 2 state tournament in Springfield, courtesy of a runner-up finish to Barstow High School in Wednesday's Class 2, Sectional 4 tournament in St. Joseph.

Winners have been announced in the 49th annual essay contest sponsored by Farmer's Electric Cooperative of Chillicothe. Two juniors have won ALL-EXPENSE PAID trips to Washington, DC. Three sophomores won all-expense paid trips to the Cooperative Youth Conference and Leadership Experience (CYCLE) conference in Jefferson City.

A Kansas City man was injured on Monday morning in Clinton County when a tire blew out of his truck, causing the vehicle to overturn on Interstate 35, seven miles south of Cameron.

A model train show is coming to Marceline on Saturday May 5th. The show, which also includes railroad art and memorabilia, is scheduled from 9 o'clock until 3 o'clock Saturday in Walsworth Community Center, 124 East Ritchie at Marceline.

At Wright Memorial Hospital Friday evening, the Hospital Foundation's Donor Recognition Wall was unveiled. It is nine feet, six inches wide by four feet, six inches tall. The base is laminate with engraved copy and graphics filled black and tan, with smoke laminate trim.

A bridge replacement project on Highway 36 in eastern Caldwell County is to begin when weather conditions allow. It is on the westbound lanes of Highway 36 at the Union Pacific Railroad tracks near Nettleton.

Freedom of Road Riders Local 8 will be hosting its May meeting on Sunday morning at Eastside Park in Trenton. The meeting is at 11 o'clock and is open to everyone to attend.

Governor Jay Nixon, on Tuesday, made stops at three northern Missouri high schools to congratulate the schools on achieving the state's A+ Schools designation. The Governor also encouraged students at Albany, Cainsville, and Northeast Nodaway to take advantage of the A+ Schools program, which offers two years of free tuition and academic fees at Missouri's community colleges.

A run-off election held on Tuesday has resulted in a new member for the Spickard Board of Aldermen.

A Missouri judge ruled on Tuesday that a Chillicothe man, twice convicted in the 1990 slaying of a farm wife, was the victim of a "manifest injustice" and that no jury would have convicted him had "investigators done their job". Boone County Circuit Court Judge Gary Oxenhandler, who was appointed by the Missouri Supreme Court to review the case, said prosecutors failed to turn over key evidence to Mark Woodworth's lawyers and overlooked numerous conflicts of interest among prosecutors, a judge, and law enforcement.

While unemployment rates remained steady statewide, counties in north central Missouri experienced, as a whole, reductions in the jobless rates from February into March.

The Chief Operating Officer of the Heartland Foundation, Judith Sabbert of St. Joseph, will be the commencement speaker at North Central Missouri College in Trenton this Saturday morning.

Jenni Croy, Head Coach of the Lady Pirates basketball team at North Central Missouri College in Trenton, has announced her second recruit for the 2012-13 team. It is Samone Redditt, a student at William Chrisman High School in Independence.

Six persons including a baby escaped safely from a burning home this morning in Trenton. Firefighters were sent just after 5 am to 1607 Carnes—the residence of Kathy Reeder and five other persons.

Four people were injured when two vehicles collided on Sunday afternoon at New Hampton in western Harrison County.

The recycling trailer that Grundy County personnel hauls to Galt, Spickard, and Laredo will be in GALT for the next two weeks. The location is near the fire station in Galt. Only items listed on the trailer are to be placed in the recycling bins.