A Linn County accident on Highway 5 injured a Marceline resident Wednesday morning two miles north of Marceline. Seventy-one-year-old Mary Murphy was taken by ambulance to Pershing Memorial Hospital in Brookfield with moderate injuries. The other driver, 21-year-old Taylor Phillips of Marceline, wasn’t hurt. The northbound minivan driven by Murphy failed to yield to an […]
United States Department of Agriculture Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Justin Maxson today unveiled a resource guide as part of National Preparedness Month to help rural communities seeking disaster resiliency and recovery assistance. This guide follows the Biden-Harris Administration’s announcement of the American Jobs Plan, which targets investments to support infrastructure in communities that are most physically […]
Residents of Trenton and Humphreys were taken to hospitals following a single-vehicle, rollover, accident Tuesday afternoon in Galt. The highway patrol described injuries as serious for both 31-year-old Travis Vasey of Trenton and 26-year-old Dakota Dalton of Humphreys. Vasey was flown by medical helicopter (Life Flight Eagle) to the Truman Medical Center in the Kansas […]
The Highway Patrol reports a rollover accident Tuesday afternoon in rural Gentry County which injured one person from Maryville. Taken by private vehicle, with moderate injuries, to Mosaic Medical Center in Albany was 41-year-old Christopher Swinford. Swinford was a passenger in a truck driven by 30-year-old Justin Viets of Stanberry who wasn’t hurt. The truck […]
An October jury trial has been vacated in DeKalb County for a Hamilton man charged with second-degree murder. The case for 37-year-old Frank Randall Allen Bostic was continued to November 8, 2021, for a plea or trial setting. Bostic has also been charged with felony first-degree domestic assault involving serious physical injury. In another case, […]
A Trenton resident was hurt early Saturday afternoon in Trenton when the car she was driving was hit on the passenger side and overturned. Fifty-three-year-old Rosalind Nichols was taken by Grundy County EMS to Wright Memorial Hospital with suspected serious injuries. The driver of the other vehicle was 56-year-old Bart Thomas of Trenton, who wasn’t […]
TierPoint, a leading provider of secure, connected data center and cloud solutions, announced plans to build a new, 23,000 square foot Tier III data center in the Westport area of St. Louis County, Missouri. Backed by an approximately $20 million commitment, the facility will include 14,500 square feet of production or raised floor space. “Missouri […]
Two Cameron drivers were taken to hospitals following an accident Monday afternoon on Highway 69, four miles south of Cameron. Thirty-one-year-old Megan Davis received moderate injuries and was taken by ambulance to Liberty Hospital. The other driver, 85-year-old Charles Cox, received minor injuries and was taken by ambulance to Cameron Regional Medical Center. The vehicles […]
One person from Hopkins was injured Sunday afternoon in an accident four miles north of Pickering in Nodaway County. Nineteen-year-old Jaiden Hopkins was taken by ambulance to the Mosiac Life Care in Maryville with moderate injuries. She was a passenger in a sports utility vehicle driven by 30-year-old Jacob Morgan of Ravenwood, who wasn’t hurt. […]
A St. Joseph man received serious injuries in a rollover accident Wednesday night at the Highway36 drag strip one mile north of Osborn. The 1967 Chevrolet Camaro was driven by 49-year-old Michael Coon, who was taken by ambulance to Cameron Regional Medical Center. Coon was eastbound on the private roadway when he apparently lost control; […]
In January, student loan borrowers will have to start paying off their loans again, as the pandemic-related pause on payment is set to expire. Now, a new report looks at ways to fix problems in the student loan system. Report co-author Michelle Dimino – senior education policy advisor at Third Way, a public policy think tank in […]
There were no apparent injuries when two vehicles collided Friday as one exited a North Central Missouri College parking lot at 11:30 am on Cedar Street in Trenton, One of the vehicles was driven by 21-year-old Nicole Danner of Kirksville, and the other was operated by 25-year-old Courtney Michael of Trenton. The Danner vehicle was […]
One driver was injured when a van struck the rear of a towed unit on Tuesday afternoon in Daviess County, three miles north of Cameron. Sixty-one-year-old Jerry Cook of Hamilton received minor injuries and was taken by a private vehicle to the Cameron Regional Medical Center. Both the van driven by Cook and a dump […]
The U.S. has its first fully approved vaccine against COVID-19, with federal health officials announcing Monday the approval of Pfizer-BioNTech’s two-dose vaccine. The green light from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to move Pfizer’s vaccine from emergency use to full approval is a milestone in the national pandemic response, and one that comes as the […]
A Kansas City resident was hurt in southern Clinton County when the pickup truck he was driving hit a sports utility vehicle from behind on Interstate 35. Fifty-two-year-old Leonard Jordan was taken to Cameron Regional Medical Center with minor injuries. The patrol said he was released from the hospital and arrested on allegations of felony […]
A resident of the Hale community was hurt Saturday afternoon in Nodaway County in the head-on collision of a pickup truck and a farm tractor on a country road. Twenty-year-old Caysie Creason was taken to Mosaic Medical Center in St. Joseph with moderate injuries. Creason was a passenger in the pickup driven by 20-year old […]
A man has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in the armed robbery of a Walgreens pharmacy in Jefferson City, Missouri. Daijahn Antwan Reed, 22, of Indianapolis, Indiana, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Willie J. Epps Jr. on Tuesday, Aug. 17, to one count of armed robbery and one count of brandishing […]
Two people were taken to hospitals following an accident involving two pickup trucks on Tuesday afternoon in rural Adair County on Highway 63, one mile south of Millard. Seventy-three-year-old Jackie Yardley of Glenwood received serious injuries and was flown by medical helicopter (Air-Evac) to University Hospital in Columbia. Also injured was a passenger in another […]
The Trenton Police Department reports two area residents were taken to the hospital by ambulance following a three-vehicle crash on Highway 6 near Fourth Street on Monday afternoon, August 16, 2021. The Grundy County Sheriff’s Department reported that Highway 6 was closed at the Thompson River Bridge for about 30 minutes due to the injury […]
(Missouri Independent) – At the base of the bridge in Selma, Ala., where the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia almost died while marching for civil rights, congressional Democrats announced Tuesday the introduction of legislation that aims to protect voting rights across the country. Rep. Terri Sewell, an Alabama Democrat, unveiled what will be […]
