A pickup truck accident in La Plata on Friday afternoon, February 7, 2020, claimed the life of a La Plata man. Seventy-two-year-old William Stites was transported to the Macon County Coroner’s Office. Stites drove the pickup south on U. S. Highway 63 before it ran off the west side of the road, overcorrected, went off […]
A former Aurora, Missouri, business owner pleaded guilty in federal court to a series of multi-million dollar fraud schemes. Russell Grundy, 50, of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, formerly of Aurora, pleaded guilty before U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge David P. Rush to two counts of wire fraud, one count of making a false statement on […]
A two-vehicle crash in Ray County has claimed the life of a man from Polo and seriously injured a resident of Rayville. Twenty-five-year-old Justin Hicks of Polo died at North Kansas City Hospital Wednesday after being injured in the 6 am crash. The other driver, 49-year-old Larry York of Rayville, was taken to North Kansas […]
A Camdenton, Missouri, man who was scheduled to go to trial on Tuesday, instead pleaded guilty to a $78,000 fraud scheme in which he used his victim’s credit cards without authorization. Ivan Joseph Stark, Jr., 47, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough on Monday, Jan. 6, to one count of bank fraud […]
A Jefferson City, Missouri, man has been convicted by a federal jury of providing false information in two unsuccessful attempts to purchase firearms. Joshua Michael Lehman, 35, was found guilty on Monday, December 9, of two counts of making false statements in a federal record provided to a licensed firearms dealer. Lehman attempted to purchase […]
A Trenton man facing drug-related charges following a traffic stop in early November waived formal arraignment and entered a plea of not guilty in Division One of Daviess County Circuit Court on Wednesday. Forty-eight-year-old Jamie Wilson has been charged with the felonies of possession of a controlled substance except 35 grams or less of marijuana or […]
A Mountain View, Missouri, woman who is currently a fugitive from justice has been indicted by a federal grand jury for a Social Security fraud scheme that utilized the stolen identity information of another person. Laura A. Oglesby, 46, was charged in an eight-count indictment returned under seal by a federal grand jury in Springfield, […]
A former Kansas City-area man, who claimed self-defense after fatally shooting another man during a drug deal, pleaded guilty in federal court to drug trafficking and to illegally possessing 52 firearms he stole from a local pawn shop. Kameron M. Bynum, 24, of Wilson, North Carolina, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lajuana M. Counts […]
A Lee’s Summit, Missouri, man who illegally purchased 15 firearms pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally possessing firearms and to making a false statement on a federal form in order to purchase those firearms. Jay C. Miller, 28, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs to one count of possessing firearms while […]
An accident involving a sports utility vehicle sinking into an ice-covered pond five miles north of Winigan on Friday evening claimed the life of a New Boston man. The body of 65-year-old James Cook was transported to the Ruschmeier Funeral Home in Milan. He was pronounced dead at the scene by Sullivan County Coroner Bob […]
An all-terrain vehicle accident Sunday evening in southwest Adair County has claimed the life of one man and injured another. The accident at 5:45 pm occurred on Highway 11, four miles to the east of Winigan. The highway patrol reports 35-year-old Nicholas Hauser of Washington, Missouri was pronounced dead at the scene by the Adair […]
A certified public accountant in Lebanon, Missouri, was convicted by a federal jury today of a $7 million scheme to defraud his employer and clients. Douglas A. Richardson, 46, was found guilty of all 10 counts contained in an Aug. 16, 2018, federal indictment. Richardson was found guilty of six counts of wire fraud and […]
A Chillicothe Township official accused of assaulting a private employee has been charged with second-degree sodomy. An appearance bond for James Edward Gates was posted Thursday, and arraignment is scheduled in the Associate Division of Livingston County Circuit Court on November 8, 2019, at 9 am. Bond was originally set at $100,000 cash only, with […]
There is a new cooperative agreement between the Ketcham Community Center of Trenton and the Grand River Area Family YMCA of Chillicothe involving a seasonal membership proposal. Ketcham Facilities Manager Nathan Gamet says Ketcham members with annual memberships have an option to renew their memberships from Labor Day to Memorial Day. During that time, they […]
A Kansas City, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in a romance fraud scheme that bilked victims across the United States and overseas of nearly $900,000. Ronayerin K. Ogolor, 50, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Nigeria, pleaded guilty before U.S. Chief District Judge Beth Phillips to one count of conspiracy to commit […]
A single-vehicle accident on Thursday afternoon on Highway 146 near Edinburg has claimed the life of a Trenton resident and hospitalized another resident. Sixty-nine-year-old Lindell J. Willey was pronounced dead at the scene by the Grundy County Coroner. A passenger, 58-year-old Pamela K. Holsted received moderate injuries and was taken by ambulance to Wright Memorial […]
A lead on a fugitive investigation in the 200 block of Gale Street led to the arrest of three individuals by the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Steve Cox reports 21-year-old Kennadie Nicole Stottlemyre of Chillicothe was arrested on a Livingston County warrant for alleged felony possession of a controlled substance—methamphetamine, and 29-year-old Alicia Marie […]
McBride, Lock, and Associates, LLC of Kansas City have released the Grundy County Annual Financial Report for 2017 and 2018. The certified public accountants found no material weaknesses in internal control or significant internal control deficiencies. Under items of noncompliance regarding budgetary compliance, the CPAs found actual expenditures exceeded budgeted expenditures for juvenile programs, 911, […]
Donna Dixon has pled guilty to one count of class C felony Medicaid Fraud in the Circuit Court of Jackson County. Dixon was a licensed professional counselor in the Kansas City area. Dixon repeatedly billed Medicaid for counseling services that she claimed to provide to children in between Fall 2016 and Summer 2017. The […]
The Missouri Supreme Court is deciding whether voters without a photo ID must sign a statement at the polls swearing they are who they say they are. The state is challenging Cole County Circuit Judge Richard Callahan calling the language contradictory and misleading and ruling last year to get rid of the requirement. In Thursday’s […]
