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Student drowns at Mozingo Lake near Maryville

Maryville Public Safety and University Police officers responded at approximately 8:00 p.m. Monday to a report of a missing student at Mozingo Lake Recreation Park.  Maryville Public Safety and Northwest Missouri State University have confirmed that a student attending the Missouri Academy of Science, Mathematics, and Computing has drowned. Officers identified the victim as Jae […]

Samuel Borntreger pleads guilty to 2nd-degree murder

Samuel Borntreger, a former Harrison County Amish minister pleaded guilty in Harrison County court today to a charge of second-degree murder. He has been in custody since January after telling authorities in Kentucky that he poisoned his wife, Anna Yoder Borntreger, who died in 2006. Today’s court appearance was originally scheduled to be a bond […]

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Woman dies in Chillicothe prison

Officials are reporting the death of a 61-year-old woman Saturday, June 4, in the women’s prison in Chillicothe. Prison officials and medical personnel pronounced Loretta Young dead at 7:49 a.m. June 4 in the Chillicothe Correctional Center. She died of apparent natural causes. Young was serving a 50-year sentence without parole for capital murder from […]

Chillicothe Police Department

Chillicothe Police Department busy first 6 days of June

The Chillicothe Police Department was very busy during the first six days of June with a myriad of calls. Officers arrested Zachary Kerns in the 200 block of Williams on a Missouri State Probation/Parole violation warrant. Kerns was transported to the Police Department where he was processed and transferred to the Daviess DeKalb Regional Jail.  […]

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Kirksville woman dies in Highway 6 accident

A Kirksville woman was killed when the car she was driving overturned off highway 6 in northeast Missouri Saturday afternoon. Twenty to year-old Robin Helm of Kirksville was pronounced dead at the scene, four miles west of Edina. Helm’s westbound car went off the left side of highway 6 and overturned, demolishing the vehicle. Ms. […]

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UPDATE: Kirksville police identify man killed in early morning shooting

(Kirksville, Missouri) – Kirksville Police have identified the individual who died, from an apparent gunshot wound, in the early morning hours of Saturday, May 14, 2016. The victim was identified as Shane’te Glasgow, 27, of Brookfield, MissouriThe initial incomplete/unofficial autopsy suggests that the cause of death was a single gunshot to the head.Although the investigation is still […]