Body Identified

Body pulled from Hideaway Lake in Caldwell County identified

Authorities have announced the identity of a body pulled from a lake Friday morning in Caldwell County. Highway Patrol Sergeant Jacob Angle reports the body has been positively identified as 30-year-old Austin Kincade from Rayville, Missouri. The Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control continue to investigate with autopsy results pending. At 8:50 Friday morning, […]

Body Recovered

Body recovered at Caldwell County lake

The Highway Patrol reports that it responded to just south of Polo Friday morning at the request of the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office after a body was located in the water at Hide-A-Way Lakes. Troop H marine enforcement troopers recovered the body of a white male. The Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control […]

NCMC Geyer Hall

NCMC Board of Trustees Tackles Potential Construction on Campus

Architect Jeremy Proctor with Ellison-Auxier Architects of Saint Joseph gave a presentation at the North Central Missouri College Board of Trustees meeting Tuesday evening about potential construction for the college. The construction could include replacing campus housing with new residence halls, the demolition of several college buildings, and the addition of parking spaces and a […]

Trenton Missouri Police Department (TPD)

Trenton woman arrested on felony stealing charge

The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of a Trenton woman Monday on a felony charge of stealing $750 or more. The bond for 45-year-old Meleah Lawrence is $5,000 cash or corporate surety, and she is scheduled for the associate division of circuit court May 14th. Court documents accuse Lawrence of appropriating United States […]

Unemployment Rate

Unemployment rates remain fairly steady in northern Missouri

Grundy County’s latest unemployment rate changed only slightly from the January figure. Statistics from the Division of Employment Security show Grundy County has 174 unemployed out of a civilian labor force of 4,400.  That’s a percentage of three-point-nine percent for February (the latest month available). In January, Grundy County had a rate of four percent, […]

University of Missouri

University of Missouri to stop housing development

The opposition is growing to a proposed housing development on land owned by the University of Missouri that could disrupt popular outdoor destinations in the state.  The proposed subdivision on the Missouri Bluffs would include approximately 275 units and be built next to the Weldon Spring and Busch Conservation areas and Katy Trail State Park. […]

Grundy County Law Enforcement Center

Arrest warrant served on man already in custody

An arrest warrant was served Wednesday on a Milan man already in custody at the Grundy County Law Enforcement Center. The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports 34-year-old Dustin Eli Nickell has been charged with the misdemeanors of driving while revoked or suspended—first offense; display or possess fictitious, canceled, suspended, revoked, or altered driver’s license; and […]

Mike Parson

Governor Parson signs FY 2019 supplemental appropriations

Governor Mike Parson signed HB 14 to ensure that the state has the necessary funds to operate through Fiscal Year 2019.  The supplemental appropriations bill allows for the continued current operations of Missouri state government. The Truly Agreed to and Finally Passed Fiscal Year 2019 supplemental HB 14 totals $468 million, including $189 million General […]

Extradited News Graphic

Washington man extradited to Grundy County

The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports a Rockport, Washington man facing non-support charges in Grundy County has been returned to Grundy County. Forty-two-year-old Benjamin Milazzo was arrested in Snohomish County, Washington, a waiver was signed, and he was returned to Grundy County Tuesday. Milazzo has been charged with four counts of misdemeanor non-support and one […]

Livingston County Sheriff

Suspect who escaped custody arrested in Livingston County

The Livingston County Sheriff’s Office concluded a fugitive investigation Tuesday with an arrest in Wheeling. Sheriff Cox reports the office had attempted to locate and arrest 31-year-old Joshua Caudill since January 8th on a Livingston County arrest warrant for alleged felony forgery, with a bond set at $25,000. Caudill eluded law enforcement for “some time”, […]

Trenton Missouri Police Department (TPD)

Trenton teen arrested on violation of probation

A Trenton teenager has been arrested for an alleged violation of probation. Nineteen-year-old Cade Anthony Darting is scheduled to appear April 23rd in the Associate Division of the Grundy County Circuit Court. A cash bond of $1,500 has been posted. Darting was on probation stemming from driving while intoxicated in July of 2017 in Grundy […]