A Republic, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for the coercion and enticement of a minor. Clifford Benjamin Kinkade, 37, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool to 20 years in federal prison without parole. The court also sentenced Kinkade to 15 years of supervised release following incarceration and ordered him […]
The Highway Patrol reports five Kirksville residents sustained moderate injuries in a five-vehicle accident three miles east of Green Castle Tuesday morning. Occupants of two of the vehicles were transported by ambulance to the Northwest Regional Medical Center of Kirksville. They were 38-year-old Serge Sinele, 29-year-old Jiga Lelo, 22-year-old Tlantini Lufuma, 22-year-old Josiane Mahuya, and […]
Twenty-six-year-old Bonnette Meeks has been charged on several counts, including first-degree murder in the shooting death of Officer Michael Langsdorf. Chief John Buchanan shared his thoughts on the fallen 40-year-old officer. Investigators say Bonnette Meeks has a long criminal past with multiple convictions in North Carolina. North County Police Cooperative Major Ron Martin […]
A Gilman City resident was injured when a utility vehicle that she was driving, and a van, collided three miles west of Gilman City Saturday evening. Sixty-six-year-old Connie Ward received moderate injuries and was taken by private vehicle to Harrison County Community Hospital in Bethany. The operator of the van was 30-year-old Mallory Miles of […]
Milan and Green City residents were hurt early Friday when a car went off a road east of Milan and struck an embankment. Eighteen-year-old Brody Smith, eleven-year-old Jarrett Galarza-Moody, both of Milan, and 13-year old Cole Weaver of Green City were taken to Sullivan County Memorial Hospital in Milan with minor injuries. They were passengers […]
Two more employees of Ripley Entertainment, Inc. – the company that operated duck boat rides in Branson, Missouri – along with the captain of the duck boat that sank at Table Rock Lake last summer, resulting in the deaths of 17 people, have been indicted by a federal grand jury. Curtis P. Lanham, 36, of […]
The leader and the enforcer of a drug-trafficking organization that distributed more than 45 kilograms of methamphetamine in the Kansas City metropolitan area were sentenced in federal court. Jennifer Gladman-Carnall, 37, of Kansas City, Missouri, and Michael Keavney, 42, of Kearney, Missouri, were sentenced in separate appearances before U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark. Gladman-Carnall was […]
Chillicothe firefighters were dispatched Monday afternoon to a motor vehicle fire in the driveway at 1212 Locust Street. Upon arrival, the engine compartment hood was up on the small black, four-door Ford car with smoke showing, but no flames. According to a report from Firefighter/Paramedic Tyler Bowlen, the reporting party stated he was using a […]
A Gallatin couple who pleaded guilty to multiple charges in Division One of Circuit Court in April has been sentenced. Online court information shows Johnny Leonard Rainey was sentenced in Daviess County Circuit Court to the Missouri Department of Corrections for four years on felony counts of stealing–$750 or more and possession of a controlled […]
Various weekend investigations involving drug allegations are in the news today from the Livingston County Sheriff’s Department. A search warrant obtained by Sheriff Cox was served Friday evening and resulted in the seizure of alleged methamphetamine and methamphetamine drug paraphernalia. Officers arrested 33-year-old Steven Burns of Chillicothe who was transferred to the Daviess-Dekalb County Regional […]
Charges have been filed in Daviess County against the suspect accused of shooting a female Trenton police officer on southbound Highway 69 in Winston during transport to Saint Joseph for a mental evaluation Friday afternoon. Online court information indicates 38-year-old Jamey Aaron Griffin of Trenton, who the Patrol has identified as a white male, has […]
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports a Trenton man was remanded to the sheriff in Division One of Circuit Court Thursday on a capias warrant on two felony charges stemming from an incident in December 2017. A capias warrant is essentially an order to arrest and detain an individual for the purpose of guaranteeing a court […]
A rural Gallatin man pleaded guilty to felony possession of child pornography – first offense in Division One of Daviess County Circuit Court on Wednesday. Online court information shows the court sentenced Allen David Coates to a facility to be determined by the Missouri Department of Corrections for four years on the child pornography charge. […]
A Novinger couple was killed Wednesday afternoon in a two-vehicle accident at Monroe City, in Marion County. The highway patrol reports the driver of a pickup, 77-year-old Janie Goodwin, was pronounced dead at the scene. The passenger, 72-year-old Earl Goodwin, died less than an hour later at University Hospital in Columbia. The eastbound pickup attempted […]
Two Gallatin men and one man from Texas sustained injuries when a car struck the towed unit of a tractor-trailer truck two miles south of Cameron Wednesday morning. The Highway Patrol reports emergency medical services transported a passenger in the car, 24-year-old Wesley Calloway, and the driver, 24-year-old Eric Teel, both of Gallatin, as well […]
A St. Joseph, Missouri, man who led law enforcement officers in a pursuit in Taney County, Missouri, was indicted by a federal grand jury for possessing approximately six pounds of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. Andrew R. Trammell, 45, was charged in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Springfield, Missouri. The […]
Two men accused of restraining someone, causing him to lose consciousness twice, and leaving him laying in the road or ditch in Jamesport Saturday night, have been charged in Daviess County. Twenty-year-old Caleb Kettner of Belton and 20-year-old Connor Monteer of Jamesport face felony charges of first-degree assault or attempt and second-degree kidnapping. Online court […]
Two Carrollton drivers were injured Monday night in rural Carroll County when one vehicle attempted to pass while the other was making a left turn. The collision, at 8:45 Monday night took place on Route E northwest of Carrollton and involved a tractor, driven by 59-year-old Phillip Henderson, and a vehicle operated by 75-year-old Sandra […]
An elderly Stanberry resident was fatally injured Saturday morning when the golf cart he was operating was hit by a pickup truck on Highway 136 northeast of Stanberry. Eighty-nine-year-old Ralph Pierce was pronounced dead at Northwest Medical Center in Albany. The patrol reports Pierce was southbound attempting to cross Highway 136 when the golf cart […]
Kate Dougherty attempted to drive her shiny white SUV across a road flooded by the swollen waters of the Fabius River in northeast Missouri. In a self-shot Facebook video, she calls the experience a combination of mortification and embarrassment. Though she survived, Dougherty realized she had put her life in danger. And she totaled the […]
