Kirksville police are confirming one person dead after an early morning shooting. Police responded to 710 West Elizabeth street at 2:29 a.m. Saturday morning in reference to a report of a subject shot with a firearm. Police arrived, spoke with several witnesses and gathered information and evidence. It is confirmed that the victim is a 27-year-old […]
The death of a 49-year-old inmate at Crossroads, the state’s maximum-security prison in Cameron on Friday, May 6, is under investigation. Timothy Adams was pronounced dead at 12:13 p.m. Friday in the Crossroads Correctional Center. Adams was serving a life sentence for being an accessory to first-degree murder and an accessory to armed criminal action. […]
(KRCG-TV) – A Macon man accused of murdering a 92-year-old Moberly woman with a machete 3 years ago on Easter Sunday will not face the death penalty. Christopher Lewis, 21, cut a deal with prosecutors by offering guilty pleas to 19 charges in exchange for a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of […]
(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 […]
Jeffrey S. Meyer and Christon Chambers, both of Maryville, were charged with endangering the welfare of a child in an incident that happened on July 5 of last year. According to a probable cause statement, the two consumed alcohol before sleeping in the same bed as the infant and another sibling, causing the infant’s death. […]
A 29-year-old man has died in an all-terrain vehicle accident in northwest Missouri. Michael Bell of Polo died Saturday night after he lost control of his ATV on a Caldwell County gravel road. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says Bell was driving the ATV when it began to slide and ran off the north side […]
POTOSI, Mo. (Wichita Eagle) – The porch light was on at the blue house on Saturn Road, illuminating the dozen cars parked haphazardly around the lot. Just after 8:30 p.m. Friday, friends and family had come to comfort Janet and Roger Bourbon, whose son, Brandon, had been found dead about 80 miles west of his hometown […]
A Kahoka man was killed early Sunday In far northeast Missouri when the sport utility vehicle he was driving overturned off highway 136, ejecting him from the vehicle. Fatally injured was 31-year old Jacob Nance of Kahoka. The accident happened two miles west of Wayland on Highway 136, when the westbound SUV went off the […]
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona (AZCentral.com) – As Joe Garagiola walked through the catacombs of Chase Field in Phoenix, he crossed paths with a newspaper reporter he had not seen in a few years. “Where have ya been, in the witness-protection program?” Garagiola said. That was Garagiola. He always was quick with a funny line and rarely forgot […]
(St. Joseph News-Press) – One of the two men accused and convicted in the stabbing death of Richard Berry last April now faces a charge of attempted escape from prison. Sean Liechti, 25, who was convicted in Berry’s death on a county bridge over the Third Fork of the Platte River, was allegedly joined in […]
A traffic accident in Trenton has claimed the life of a 20-year old Unionville resident, Austin VanHoutan. Authorities were notified this (Friday) morning, at approximately 10:30, of a pickup truck on its side in Muddy Creek, at the 28th Street Bridge. VanHoutan was pronounced dead at the scene by Grundy County Coroner Duane Slater. It […]
The Livingston County Sheriff’s Department responded to a location in northwest Livingston county on Wednesday, March 2 at approximately 10 pm. The response was in reference to a possible suicide. Preliminary investigation shows an adult male was deceased at the scene. Livingston County Sheriff Steve Cox indicated that the investigation and cause of death is […]
(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 […]
