Two Cameron residents were present when a man from St. Charles died due to drowning, with carbon monoxide exposure indicated as a contributing factor. The incident happened Saturday night at 9:45 pm at a Lake of the Ozarks location. The highway patrol identified the victim of drowning as 66-year-old Steven Sutton of St. Charles. Sutton […]
A Missouri Army National Guardsman and two owners of an Illinois scrap metal company have been indicted for allegedly plotting to steal and eventually sell military gear. A federal grand jury in East St. Louis returned the indictment on Wednesday against three men subcontracting for the US Department of Defense including 47-year-old Brandon […]
Navy veteran Dominique Bowers, 37, was found dead by police in her Warner Robins home. A 13-year-old Georgia boy has been charged with murder and aggravated assault in the fatal shooting of his mother. Dominique Bowers, a 37-year-old Navy veteran, was found dead by police in her Warner Robins home on Friday. Police say her […]
A teenager from King City was taken to a hospital following the rollover crash of an all-terrain vehicle on Thursday afternoon in King City. The 17-year-old boy received moderate injuries and was taken by ambulance to Mosiac Life Care in St. Joseph. The teenager was operating the ATV eastbound on Putnam Street when it overturned. […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Unionville man has drowned at Thousand Hills State Park near Kirksville the afternoon of August 9 after he voluntarily left a pontoon boat in an attempt to rescue another swimmer. Sixty-four-year-old Steven Puckett was taken to the Travis Noe Funeral Home. Puckett went under the water at Forest Lake and did […]
Two northwest Missouri residents were killed, and three children were injured when two vehicles, approaching each other, collided in rural Nodaway County. The accident on Highway 148 occurred at 5:50 pm Wednesday evening, one mile south of Pickering. The two drivers were pronounced dead at the scene by the coroner. The patrol identified one of […]
An 18-year-old has been charged following an investigation by the Chillicothe Police Department involving reports of a stolen vehicle and a firearm on August 3. Brandon Gage Gentile of Chillicothe faces felony charges of first-degree tampering with a motor vehicle; second-degree burglary; stealing a firearm, explosive weapon, or ammonium nitrate; attempted second-degree burglary; armed criminal […]
Chillicothe Police report two teenagers have been taken into custody as the investigation continues into a report of a stolen vehicle and theft of a firearm. On Tuesday, Chillicothe Police received the report of a motor vehicle stolen from the 1200 block of Webster Street and a firearm stolen from a vehicle in the 900 […]
A Pattonsburg teenager was injured late Tuesday afternoon when the driver apparently lost control of a pickup and it went off a road and overturned on Elmwood Road two miles east of Pattonsburg. The driver was a 17-year-old girl who was taken by emergency medical services to the Cameron Regional Medical Center with minor injuries. […]
A case has been filed in another county involving a felony stealing charge for the Braymer man charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two Wisconsin men. Online court information no longer publicly shows the Johnson County case involving the stealing charge against 27-year-old Garland Joseph Nelson. A case was filed […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Chillicothe man sustained serious injuries when he was ejected from a motorcycle and struck by a minivan in Livingston County on Friday morning, July 30. The van driver was later arrested. A medical helicopter life-flighted 67-year-old William Anderson to Truman Medical Center. No injuries were reported for the minivan driver, […]
The Highway Patrol reports two Brookfield teens sustained injuries when a car ran into the back of a Peterbilt truck five miles south of Chillicothe on Tuesday morning, July 27. The driver of the car was later arrested. The passengers in the car, a 16-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy, were taken by emergency medical […]
Seven people, including a minor child, escaped injury in a boating accident Sunday evening at Long Branch Lake in Macon County. The highway patrol reports a ski boat was westbound near the main boat ramp when it struck a rock jetty that was just below the surface of the water. The boat received moderate damage […]
In Missouri’s courts, 17-year-olds will now be automatically treated as juveniles rather than adults if they’re taken into custody. It’s the tenth state in the country to raise the age of criminal responsibility. Opponents of “raise the age” laws predicted it would increase juvenile caseloads and overwhelm capacity in youth detention centers. Still, the number […]
The highway patrol reports the arrest, on multiple allegations, of a Kansas City man on Monday evening. The arrest of 27-year-old Frederick Pannell occurred in Platte County. He was taken on a 24-hour hold to the Buchanan County Jail. The patrol accuses Pannell of resisting or interfering with an arrest for a felony, as well […]
A Milan man and three other individuals sustained injuries in a two-vehicle crash four miles north of Gower on Sunday, July 4. The Highway Patrol reports 39-year-old Jeremy McAlister of Milan was a passenger in a pickup truck driven by 40-year-old Curtis Faulconer of Smithville. They were taken by emergency medical services to Mosaic Life […]
A jury trial has been scheduled on a felony stealing charge for the Braymer man charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two Wisconsin men. Online court information shows 27-year-old Garland Joseph Nelson’s motion for a speedy trial was granted on the charge of stealing a motor vehicle. A three-day jury […]
Two people from Carthage, Illinois, were injured on Sunday at 5 pm, one of them seriously, in a single-vehicle accident about two miles east of Princeton. A westbound sports utility vehicle dropped off the north shoulder of Highway 136 overcorrected, causing the vehicle to cross the road and go off the south side, where it […]
(Missouri Independent) – Retired St. Louis Judge Evelyn Baker once sentenced a 16-year-old Black boy to 241 years in prison for two armed robberies. No one was seriously injured in the robberies, but the boy “didn’t express any remorse,” Baker said, remembering the sentencing hearing. Now, when she thinks back, Baker deeply regrets the sentence […]
The Trenton Police Department has released information about a semi-truck with one unit hitting a stop sign at 22nd Street and Pleasant Plain on June 3rd. No injuries were reported for the driver, 77-year-old James Gruver of Kansas City. Officer Keith Edmonston reports Gruver drove the semi into a residential area following a GPS while […]
