The 22nd Missouri Day Marching Festival is around the corner with thirty-three schools bands will be gathering in Trenton on October 20th to take part in the evaluative events that are being provided the participating bands in the parade, auxiliary, drumline, and field show. The Missouri State High School Activities Association has sanctioned this event. […]
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Livingston County Sheriff reports on moving violation enforcement operation
Livingston County Sheriff Steve Cox reports that a recent hazardous moving violations enforcement focused on U. S. Highway 36, U. S. 65, and Highway 190 resulted in 10 vehicle stops. Two deputies made one arrest for driving while suspended or revoked and two for drug law violations. They also involved two speeding citations and six […]
Milan man faces kidnapping and domestic assault charges
A Milan man has been arrested and charged in Adair County following an alleged incident Monday. Online court information shows 35-year-old Daniel Stephens faces felony charges of first-degree kidnapping and first-degree domestic assault as well as a misdemeanor violation of an order of protection for an adult. Bond was set at $75,000 cash only, and […]
NCMC Board of Trustees meet with full agenda
The North Central Missouri College Board of Trustees at its meeting Tuesday night approved early repayment of the Barton Campus bond issue. Associate Vice President for Business and Finance Tyson Otto presented information that outlined an option for the early repayment of the bond issue on November 15th. Total payment due is $940,459.11 with the […]
Postal service announces fix in mail system for Missourians along Iowa, Arkansas borders
United States Postal Service has announced it has now successfully fixed a quirk in the mail system that resulted in some Missourians along the Iowa and Arkansas borders being assigned non-Missouri postal addresses. Senator Clair McCaskill stated a system that had people living in one state but having an address of another state didn’t make […]
Trenton woman arrested on multiple charges
The Grundy County Sheriff reports one area resident was arrested Monday on multiple charges while another turned himself in. Fifty-seven-year-old Kathy Jean Stratton of Trenton has been charged with four misdemeanors: peace disturbance, first offense, first-degree trespassing, resisting or interfering with an arrest, detention, or stop and operating a vehicle on a highway without a […]
Audio: Lawsuit from liberal group challenging Missouri’s voter ID law being heard in Jefferson City
A lawsuit challenging Missouri’s voter ID law is being heard in a Jefferson City court. Uzoma N. Nkwonta of the Washington law firm Perkins Coie is representing the Democratic-aligned group Priorities USA before the court. He said a constitutional amendment passed by voters in 2016 did not permit the state legislature to pass a restrictive […]
Student from England, Lewis Hopkinson, is NCMC Student for September
Lewis Hopkinson from Huddersfield in Yorkshire, England has been selected as North Central Missouri College’s Outstanding Student for September. Lewis is receiving his Associate in Arts degree with plans to transfer and continue to play collegiate golf. Lewis, an international student-athlete, is a member of the NCMC’s men’s golf team. He is also active in […]
Sunday evening crash injures Trenton woman and two children
A Sunday evening accident in Trenton caused minor injuries for a Trenton woman and two children. The accident happened at 6:20 pm as a vehicle was being driven on the southbound ramp to U.S. 65 when equipment failure caused the sports utility vehicle to travel off the left side of the road and down an […]
Two from Trenton arrested on various charges
Trenton authorities are reporting the arrest of two individuals on a multitude of charges. Thirty-three-year-old Trenton resident, Cody Burchett, has been arrested on Grundy County charges accusing him with third-degree domestic assault on September 9th, as well as failure to appear in court in connection with charges of first-degree stalking and third-degree assault, both of […]
Audio: Concerns raised after 20,000 recipients dropped from Missouri Medicaid in one month
(Missourinet) – About 16,000 children and 4,000 parents fell off the Medicaid rolls in Missouri between June and July, the biggest drop-off in over a decade. A shortage of 150 workers at the program’s outsourced call center is being blamed as part of the problem. State Medicaid Oversight Committee Chairman Tim McBribe thinks low wages at […]
September is National Emergency Preparedness Month
September is National Emergency Preparedness Month and Grundy County Emergency Management Director Glen Briggs says this month’s purpose is to promote preparedness for emergencies that may strike in communities and get persons thinking about what they would do in an emergency. Information regarding emergency preparedness is included in the Grundy County Emergency Operations Plan which […]
Northwest Missouri State University to present 28th annual Freshman/Transfer Showcase
First-year students in Northwest Missouri State University’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts will present “Love/Sick” as the 28th annual Freshman/Transfer Showcase. Performances will be in the Studio Theatre at the Ron Houston Center for the Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4-6 and at 2 p.m. Oct. 7. Tickets are $10 and can be […]
Couple arrested after unsupervised child found wandering in the street
Officers with the Chillicothe Police Department were recently dispatched to the 800 block of Easton Street where they located a toddler wearing only a diaper, and unsupervised. The toddler was unable to tell officers where he lived after chasing a dog into the street, however, officers were able to locate the residence a short time […]
Four arrested over the weekend, including two brothers
Authorities report four individuals were arrested on various charges, two of them brothers, over the weekend in Grundy County. Twenty-two-year-old Justin Lee Kleihauer of Trenton faces four felony counts and two misdemeanor counts. His bonds total $43,000 cash with an appearance September 25th in the Associate Division of Grundy County circuit court. Justin Kleihauer is […]
Former executive at Preferred Family Healthcare pleads guilty to concealment of $30M embezzlement scheme
A former executive of a Springfield, Mo., charity pleaded guilty in federal court to misprision (the deliberate concealment of one’s knowledge of a treasonable act or a felony.) of a felony in connection with the concealment of a multi-million-dollar scheme by which other charity executives embezzled and diverted millions of dollars from the Springfield nonprofit […]
Audio: Officials now clear why Missouri’s budget is $100 million in the hole
(Missourinet) – Missouri lawmakers and administrators are trying to figure out what has caused a $100 million budget shortfall in the first two months of the current fiscal year. Democratic State Representative Deb Lavender of Kirkwood is a member of the House Budget Committee. She notes there’s a level of uncertainty over how the federal tax […]
Small aircraft makes emergency landing in Livingston County
Livingston County Sheriff Steve Cox reports a pilot from Wisconsin is safe after landing his small plane south of Chillicothe Thursday afternoon. The sheriff’s office was informed at 3:53 pm by a call from the FAA reporting a possible aircraft down 7 to 10 miles southwest of Chillicothe. Sheriff Steve Cox said as responders were […]
Audio: Tractor cruise, baby show and Melodrama all part of Calamity Jane Day Festival
The Calamity Jane Day Festival kicks off in Princeton Friday with a tractor cruise. Kelly Bertrand with the festival says tractors will leave the lower Mercer County Fairgrounds at 9 o’clock that morning. The tractors will return to Princeton at 4 o’clock Friday afternoon and will then be parked on the west side […]
Mooresville man arrested on trespassing, assault and resisting arrest
Livingston County Sheriff Steve Cox reports the arrest of a Mooresville man after a deputy responded to a report of a man trespassing and refusing to leave a location in the 500 block of Second Street in Wheeling Tuesday evening. The deputy arrested 57-year-old Randy Wayne Adair on alleged trespassing, assault on a law enforcement […]