The University of Missouri Extension will offer a three-night class on estate, succession, and retirement planning for farmers and business owners. Extension Agricultural Business Specialist Darla Campbell will teach “Your Farm, Your Business, Your Future” with other Extension specialists and a probate judge on January 19th and 26th and February 2nd from 6 to 9 […]
Tag: Benton County
Audio: Suspects charged with torturing and killing 4-year-old child in Missouri held without bond
A man and woman from western Missouri’s Lincoln are jailed without bond Tuesday, after being charged with murder for the torture and killing of a four-year-old child. Reporter David Oliver from our Springfield television partner KOLR-10 says the child was beaten, submerged in a pond, and left to freeze on the bank, before being taken […]
Audio: A 4 year old girl has died after being beaten in Benton County
The Benton County Sheriff’s Office in central Missouri is investigating a four-year-old child’s death on Sunday morning. Investigators say the child had been beaten, along with two others who survived. The four-year-old girl died in Cole Camp, Missouri. According to the sheriff’s office, the father told authorities his daughter “had been beaten, submerged […]
Major Lance MacLaughlin of the Missouri State Highway Patrol promoted to Lieutenant Colonel
The superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, announces Major Lance M. MacLaughlin is being promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel effective January 1, 2021, and will serve as the assistant superintendent. In addition to acting in the superintendent’s absence and at his request, Lieutenant Colonel MacLaughlin has direct oversight over the Professional Standards […]
Innovation, technology make ‘virtual 4-H camp’ a memorable experience
With in-person summer camps canceled due to COVID-19, Missouri 4-H went to work creating new opportunities for youths to make as many summer memories as possible. “A combination of ‘camp in a kit’ and virtual experiences gave youths throughout the state a platform to continue to learn by doing, socialize with their peers and caring […]
Sedalia man arrested for failing to appear in Grundy County
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of a Sedalia man Wednesday, July 22nd on a felony charge and failure to appear. Thirty-seven-year-old Michael Ray Fritchery was transported to Grundy County from Benton County. He has been charged with driving while revoked or suspended. He allegedly failed to appear on an infraction of displayed […]
Audio: Western Missouri woman posts bond, after 120 dead dogs are discovered on property
A western Missouri woman has posted bond, after more than 100 dead dogs were discovered on her property. Forty-nine-year-old Tiffany Lynn Woodington is charged in Benton County Circuit Court with ten counts of felony animal abuse. A judge set her bond at $100,000, and online court records indicate Woodington has posted bond. Prosecutors […]
Two from northwest missouri escape injury in boating accident at Lake of the Ozarks
The highway patrol reports two northwest Missouri residents went into the water when their boat overturned at the Lake of the Ozarks this weekend. Fifty-two-year-old Jeff Wilson and 53-year-old Jennifer Wilson, from the Andrew County town of Bolckow, were checked by emergency medical services at the scene and released. The accident happened at about 5 […]
Missouri State Highway Patrol reports 12 fatalities over July 4th holiday weekend
The Missouri State Highway Patrol has released their fourth of July holiday period statistics for 2019, which include 12 statewide traffic fatalities and three drownings. The 2019 fourth of July counting period began at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 3 and continued through midnight Sunday, July 7, 2019. During the counting period in 2018, four people […]
Missouri man sentenced to 25 years for drug trafficking that led to kidnapping, torture
Two men have been sentenced in federal court this week for their roles in a drug-trafficking conspiracy that led to the kidnapping and torture of an Independence, Missouri, man. Gerald L. Holmes, also known as “Jerry” or “Joker,” 27, and Richard M. Phoenix, also known as “Snake,” 77, were sentenced in separate appearances before U.S. […]
Rollover crash injures Cameron man in Benton County
The Highway Patrol reports a Cameron man and a Warsaw teen sustained moderate injuries when their vehicle overturned in Benton County Wednesday morning. Twenty-two year old Storm Paris of Cameron traveled east on Missouri 83 east of Hilty Avenue when the car ran off the right side of the road. He overcorrected, causing the vehicle […]