Nearly 2,000 Buchanan County voters in northwest Missouri will be sent new ballots after receiving absentee ballots with language thrown out by the courts. Some voters in southwest Missouri’s Vernon County were reportedly also given ballots with the wrong language. Buchanan County Clerk Mary Baack-Garvey says the county received ballots with the original language for […]
This flu season may look different than any we have had before. The combination of a global pandemic and influenza season happening at the same time may lead to confusion since there are many similarities between Influenza and COVID-19. Some of these similarities include patients who are asymptomatic to those experiencing the severe onset of […]
It is almost harvest time on the Gottman farms in rural northeastern Missouri. Trees blushed with shades of scarlet, saffron, and sage edge mouse-brown soybean fields. The air is crisp; the sky a palette of blues. From the combine cab, Tim Gottman will remember his gentle-hearted son’s birthday on Sept. 27. Toby would have been […]
A former emergency medical technician at Mercy Medical Center pleaded guilty in federal court to stealing fentanyl and hydromorphone from dozens of vials used by ambulances in Carthage and Mount Vernon, Missouri, and replacing the drugs with saline or water solution. “A former paramedic abused his position of trust by stealing and diluting drugs that […]
A Jonesboro, Mississippi, man has pleaded guilty in federal court to transporting more than five pounds of methamphetamine and nearly three pounds of heroin through Kansas City, Missouri, en route to St. Louis, Mo. Willie Lewis Braison, 47, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Brian C. Wimes on Wednesday, Sept. 16, to one count of […]
The economic picture is brightening for both Missouri and the Midwest. Creighton University’s August survey of supply managers and business leaders across the nine-state region finds the financial situation slowly improving. Economist Ernie Goss of Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska says the survey’s leading economic indicator for the region climbed. “The index from that survey […]
East Penn Manufacturing Company is expanding its plant in Corydon, Iowa, and hiring additional workers. A representative of the battery-making company was recently in Trenton for interviews which were held at the Trenton Job Center, located inside the Regional Planning Commission office at 1104 Main Street. LaTonya Holmes, a spokesperson for East Penn, discussed pay and […]
A Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court for the arson at the Columbia Health Center (operated by Planned Parenthood Great Plains). “This defendant’s criminal behavior placed the community in an unacceptable risk of danger,” Garrison said. “We will not tolerate the use of violence and arson as a means to achieve personal political or […]
A former captain in the Kansas City, Missouri, Fire Department pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to illegally selling 77 firearms over a five-year period, and to selling firearms to convicted felons. “Our gun laws exist to make it hard for violent criminals to obtain the tools of their trade,” Garrison said. “Felons, […]
A Dumfries, Virginia, man has been sentenced in federal court for his role in wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies as part of a $3.2 million romance fraud scheme. Henry N. Asomani, 35, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Ghana, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark on Tuesday, Aug. 25, to 10 years in […]
The Missouri Department of Transportation reports an increase in work zone crashes despite decreased traffic volumes. MoDOT had had 39 truck/trailer-mounted attenuators hit in work zones this year. That compares to 19 hits at this time in 2019. Attenuators are described as being “like giant, crushable shock absorbers” that absorb momentum and reduce the force […]
A Mooresville man has been arrested following an investigation by the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office and Highway Patrol of a call from a woman allegedly being held against her will by a man with two firearms in the 15000 block of LIV 413. Livingston County Sheriff Steve Cox reports 61 year old Duane Eugene Hall […]
Trenton’s Building and Nuisance Board met last evening with six members present voting to remove four properties of concern and granting extensions of time to four other Recognizing work has been completed as requested by the city, the board released 1113 Main to 1115 Main, 900 Main, 1814 Hillcrest Drive, and 813 Olive Street. Receiving […]
The Missouri State Highway Patrol is testing for new troopers and is encouraging qualified individuals of all backgrounds to apply, and will offer testing at nine different locations in Missouri. Those who successfully complete testing will be eligible to continue in the selection process for the 111th Recruit Class, scheduled to begin training on February […]
Missouri’s health director says it’s important to target younger residents with a specific message of the importance of wearing a mask and social distancing. State Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) Director Dr. Randall Williams told Capitol reporters on Tuesday that he had a discussion with White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, […]
The North Central Missouri Mental Health Center in Chillicothe will hold a series of free parenting classes beginning next week. They will be held Tuesday mornings from 8 o’clock to 9:30 from August 18th to September 15th. Topics will include an introduction to protective factors and concrete support, parenting resilience, parenting knowledge, social and emotional […]
Four new medical marijuana-infused product manufacturing facility licenses were issued to the entities next in line on the conditionally denied applicant list. During the compliance review process for all new medical marijuana facility licenses, the Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) has determined that certain infused product manufacturing facilities submitted duplicative applications for licensure […]
The Trenton R-9 Board of Education set the district’s tax rate prior to the regular board meeting the evening of Tuesday, August 11th. The proposed property tax rate was approved at $4.4135. That includes $3.5135 for the Incidental Fund and 90 cents for the debt service. This year’s tax levy is 28.65 cents higher than […]
A Medicaid expansion measure is one of the hot items at the ballot box in Tuesday’s primary election. Missouri voters will be asked whether to expand Medicaid to another 230,000 low-income adults. Currently, about 950,000 Missourians get government-funded healthcare. Under Amendment 2, Missouri adults earning up to $18,000 annually could qualify. The clash between those […]
On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown Jr. was shot to death by then-Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Almost six years later, St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell announced today his office will not seek charges against Wilson for pulling the trigger. “We made painstaking efforts to look at everything,” Bell says at a press conference. […]
