A northwest Missouri resident was hurt early Sunday west of Springfield when the pickup truck he was driving ran off Interstate 44, overturned, and hit guard cables. Twenty-year-old Luke Thompson of Union Star was taken to Cox South Hospital in Springfield with moderate injuries. The accident happened seven miles west of Springfield on eastbound I-44 […]
A Cowgill resident was hurt early Sunday in Caldwell County when the car he was driving overturned on Highway 116 near Polo. Seventeen-year-old Zachary Stratton was taken to Liberty Hospital with moderate injuries. The accident happened approximately two miles northeast of Polo as the car was westbound on Highway 116 when it traveled off the […]
The following is a list of general highway maintenance and construction work the Missouri Department of Transportation has planned in North Missouri for the week of November 2 – 8, 2020. All road closures and planned roadwork may be viewed on the Traveler Information Map at http://traveler.modot.org/map/. Inclement weather may cause schedule changes in some […]
Two residents of Albany were injured when two vehicles collided before sunrise, Thursday morning, in rural Nodaway County. Twenty-year-old Mary Brooke Steinbach received serious injuries while 28-year-old Dameon Sweat received moderate injuries. Steinbach was taken by ambulance to Mosaic Life Care in St. Joseph. A private vehicle took Sweat to the Mosiac Life Care of […]
(Missouri Independent) – State governments are unique political bodies that allow for experimentation in how rules and laws affect political outputs. As Justice Louis Brandies pointed out – states are laboratories of democracy. State governments have broad jurisdiction to “tweak” institutional rules and laws. Through this system of government, we can observe the aftermath of […]
Four people were injured, two of them seriously Wednesday afternoon, in an accident on Highway 63 at Jacksonville in Randolph County. The highway patrol listed the serious injuries for the driver of the car, 26-year-old Colton Hammes of Novinger, and one of his passengers, 24-year-old Andrew Morgan of Kirksville. Both went to the University Hospital […]
Three people received injuries Monday morning when a vehicle went out of control on an icy bridge deck and traveled off Interstate 35 approximately four miles to the south of Cameron. The northbound sports utility vehicle traveled too fast for the road conditions at 7:25 this morning when it went off the east side of […]
The following is a list of general highway maintenance and construction work the Missouri Department of Transportation has planned in North Missouri for the week of October 26 – November 1. All road closures and planned roadwork may be viewed on the Traveler Information Map at http://traveler.modot.org/map/. Inclement weather may cause schedule changes in some […]
An Osborn man faces a felony charge of murder—second degree in DeKalb County related to a motor vehicle accident in June that caused the death of DeKalb County Sheriff Andy Clark. Online court information shows 34-year-old Gary Wayne Downs has also been charged with the felonies of resisting arrest, detention, or stop by fleeing and […]
A truck driver from Carrollton was killed late Tuesday afternoon in a rollover accident in rural Carroll County. The highway patrol reports 71-year-old Larry Edwards was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. Edwards was eastbound on Route E when the fuel tanker truck traveled off the right side of the road causing him […]
Livingston County Sheriff Steve Cox reports his office was dispatched on Monday night, October 19th to a stolen vehicle from Brookfield traveling at a high rate of speed on westbound Highway 36 into Livingston County. Cox says a Livingston County deputy was on Highway 36 near Utica where one lane is open in a construction […]
The Grundy County Commission on Tuesday morning, October 20th tabled approval of snow removal bids until further details can be acquired from the two parties who submitted bids. Chris and Danny Gott’s bid included $500 for snow removal and ice melt application at the courthouse, prosecuting attorney’s office, and law enforcement center as well as […]
A single-vehicle accident at midday Monday, five miles east of Cameron, injured a Maysville resident. Sixty-three-year-old Edward Fry received moderate injuries and was taken by a private vehicle to the Cameron Regional Medical Center. A trooper said the eastbound pickup went off the south side of Highway 36 and came to a stop in a […]
A two-vehicle rollover accident Sunday on Highway 36 in Caldwell County has killed a resident of Illinois and injured two other people. Sixty-five-year-old Leanne Mast of Lansing, Illinois was a passenger in a car driven by 67-year-old John Mast, also of Lansing Illinois. Leanne Mast was pronounced dead at the Liberty Hospital two hours after […]
An Illinois resident was hurt when the tractor-trailer unit he was operating overturned on Interstate 35 north of the Winston exit. Sixty-three-year-old Randy Hammond of Christopher, Illinois was taken to Cameron Regional Medical Center with minor injuries. The accident happened Saturday afternoon two miles north of the Winston exit on interstate 35 as the southbound […]
A car overturned southeast of Maysville Saturday night injuring a Cameron resident. The 16-year old girl was taken by private vehicle to Cameron Regional Medical Center with minor injuries. The accident happened two miles southeast of Maysville on Hedge Road when the northbound car went out of control, traveled off the left side of the […]
The following is a list of general highway maintenance and construction work the Missouri Department of Transportation has planned in northern Missouri for the week of October 19 – 25. All road closures and planned roadwork may be viewed on the Traveler Information Map at http://traveler.modot.org/map/. Inclement weather may cause schedule changes in some of […]
A Caldwell County accident on Wednesday afternoon has injured a resident of Mirabile. Aimee Neth was taken to the Liberty Hospital, with serious injuries, after the southbound car she was driving ran off Route D, at a curve in the road, and struck an embankment. Neth was using a seat belt and the car received […]
The North Mercer R-3 Board of Education the evening of Monday, October 12th set graduation and approved supplemental coaching responsibilities. The graduation is scheduled for the afternoon of May 9th, 2021 at 2 o’clock. Supplemental coaching responsibilities included retired teacher Dave Fuller to continue as the head boys and girls track coach. Fuller has directed […]
The following is a list of general highway maintenance and construction work the Missouri Department of Transportation has planned in the north Missouri area for the week of September Oct. 12 – 18. All road closures and planned roadwork may be viewed on the Traveler Information Map at http://traveler.modot.org/map/. Inclement weather may cause schedule changes in […]
