(St. Joseph News Press) – A yellow toy dump truck speckled with dirt rests atop a bookshelf in the Trenton fire chief’s office. The photo of four children who died in a house fire last May is attached to the truck, which came from the backyard of the house that burned down. It is a […]
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Daviess County Schools Increase Security After Threats Received Against Children in Northwest Mo.
(St. Joseph News Press) – The Daviess County Sheriff’s Office is asking residents to report any suspicious activities after threats were received in the region. Deputies said they received information from an outside agency that there was a threat of violence against children in Northwest Missouri. The threat of violence is being investigated by multiple […]
Samuel Borntreger could face additional charges of child abuse and sexual misconduct
(St. Joseph News Press) – Testimony in a bond hearing Wednesday revealed an ongoing criminal investigation against an Amish man charged with poisoning his own wife. Samuel Borntreger appeared in a Harrison County courtroom Wednesday on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Anna Yoder Borntreger, in 2006. Authorities raised the […]
St. Joseph Mother and children assaulted with ‘wooden stick’
A mother and two children were taken to the hospital after being assaulted by a man near 13th and Charles streets early Saturday afternoon. The incident was reported around noon when residents in the Museum Hill District heard screaming and called police. “He was using a wooden stick,” St. Joseph Police Department Officer Roy Wedlow […]