Entries for next month’s Missouri Day Festival Parade are nearing 150 including decorated floats, antique and restored motorized cars and trucks, family units, special guests and of course, high school marching bands and military participants.

Sheriff Rodney Herring said Grundy County received multiple 9-1-1 phone calls at 1 o'clock regarding a shooting at a home in Galt. Sheriff Herring identified the victim as 32 year old Christopher Molloy: a resident of the home at 200 North Main that he shared with 37 year old Stephanie Miller.

North Central Missouri College in Trenton will share in an $18 million U.S. Department of Labor training grant, Gov. Jay Nixon announced yesterday.

Coming off of a second-place finish on Saturday at the Lathrop Tournament, the Trenton Lady Bulldog volleyball team was hopeful that momentum would carry them to back-to-back wins on their home court on Monday and Tuesday nights.

In the early morning hours of Sunday, a state trooper arrested 27-year old Machelle Dowell of Galt for the alleged possession of a controlled substance. Livingston County Sheriff Steve Cosa said the detention officer on duty summoned Chillicothe Police to assist at the scene to avoid any "gender issues".

The Trenton Lady Bulldogs used a three-run rally based on “small ball” to scrape out a 4-1 victory on Tuesday night over Lexington, in a softball game broadcast on KTTN FM 92.3 and www.kttn.com.

A two story house, plus basement, just west of Chillicothe has been destroyed by fire. Early Tuesday morning, the 9-1-1 call center at the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office received a call of a residence on fire on Old Highway 190.

Homecoming week 2012 has begun at Trenton High School, with activities throughout the week to build up toward Friday night's home football game against the Pembroke Hill Raiders, and a dance for THS students to follow.

The Norborne Lady Pirates and the Meadville Eagles won titles in the rain-delayed CLAA Conference softball tournaments, finished on Saturday at Ludlow.

A Linneus girl was hurt when a pickup truck driven by her father went off a road west of Brookfield, and into a ditch. Two year old Paityn Sparks was taken to Pershing Memorial Hospital in Brookfield, with injuries described as minor by the Highway Patrol.

Felony charges have been filed against three persons in connection with the Wednesday afternoon theft of a Grundy County-owned pickup truck.

Beef producers at the MU Thompson Farm field day were urged to look at the end product from their cow herds by Mike Kasten who has been doing that for years in his farm herd near Millersville Mo.

The Highway Patrol described injuries as MODERATE for 64 year old William Rider and 67 year old Carolyn Rider (both of Humphreys), after a motorcycle crash on Wednesday evening. Both were taken by medical helicopter to Truman Medical Center.

A single vehicle accident on Tuesday afternoon, three miles to the west of Pattonsburg, injured a driver from McFall. The Highway Patrol said injuries were minor to 18-year old Jacob Lichliter of McFall. He was taken by ambulance to Cameron Regional Medical Center.

The Gilman City community has been placed under a precautionary boil water advisory until further notice. The city clerk's office said the advisory was issued on Tuesday due to a broken water main in Gilman City.

The Trenton Lady Bulldogs outshot the Lady Spartans from Richmond in a head-to-head "Senior Night" girls golf duel at Riverside Country Club in Trenton on Tuesday afternoon.

The Grundy County Commission today accepted the low bid for a bridge replacement project east of Trenton. The work will be done by Decker Construction Services of Lathrop with a construction bid of 274 thousand ($274,108) dollars.

Two teams from northwest Missouri, the Huskers from Higginsville and the Hornets from Hamilton, are on top of the latest high school football poll from the Missouri Sportswriters and Broadcasters Association. To see the latest state poll, in its entirety, click on "read more":

A Gallatin resident was injured on Saturday night when the car he was driving went off Highway 13 north of Hamilton and overturned several times, throwing him from the vehicle. Nineteen year old Lance Rodkey was taken to Cameron Regional Medical Center, with injuries that the Highway Patrol described as SERIOUS.

A teenager from Osborn was injured on Sunday afternoon in a single vehicle accident three miles south of Cameron.