The tax levy has been adopted for the community of Spickard. The Spickard Board of Aldermen, following the August 13th public hearing, voted to set the local levy at just over 99 cents (.9917) on the 100 dollars of assessed valuation. The levy, if 100 percent collection, would generate $48,650 in local taxes for Spickard. […]
A Trenton man, whom officials say failed to appear for a scheduled probation violation hearing at the courthouse on Thursday was arrested later in the day. Fifty-eight-year-old James Irving Lewellen is held in jail on a ten thousand dollar bond on the failure to appear in court warrant. A ten percent cash deposit will be […]
Two Jamesport residents were hurt Saturday afternoon when a mini-van hit the side of a pickup truck two miles south of Jamesport. The driver of the van, 69-year old Gerald Souders, was taken to Cameron Regional Medical Center with moderate injuries. A passenger in the van, 51-year old Esther Miller was taken to Wright Memorial […]
A Kansas City man is held in jail following a recent Mercer County arrest on two felony charges and three misdemeanor counts. Twenty-seven-year-old Drake Andrew Kately is to appear next Tuesday, August 6th, in Mercer County’s Associate Division of Circuit Court. Bond has been set at $75,000. Kately faces charges for July 24th incidents that […]
A Polo resident was injured Thursday afternoon in a collision at a Ray County intersection. Eighty three-year-old Wendelin Herman received moderate injuries and was taken to the Liberty Hospital. Herman was westbound on Highway 210 when he allegedly failed to yield to a vehicle driven by 54-year-old Tricia Maynard of Richmond who wasn’t hurt. Both […]
Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway released an audit of the Knox County Sheriff’s Office located in northeast Missouri. The audit came at the request of the county commission after the resignation of the former sheriff, Robert M. Becker, who stepped down after pleading guilty in December 2018 to misdemeanor counts of domestic assault and sexual […]
After his probation was previously suspended, a probation violation hearing was held Tuesday in Grundy County Circuit Court for Thomas Kopp of Lexington. Kopp’s original charge in Grundy County is a misdemeanor of non-support. The court approved the defense attorney’s request for Kopp to be released on a $12,000 personal recognizance bond pending attendance at […]
Corn and soybean crops planted on “prevented acres” not planted last spring may provide corn and soybean forage for cattle this fall. With a wet spring, many farmers failed to make quality hay for cow herds. Now, cover crops needed on bare crop ground may produce quality forage. Earlier regulations on unplanted cropland restricted using […]
The highway patrol reports a Lineville truck driver declined medical treatment for minor injuries received in an accident Monday morning in Johnson County. Sixty-year-old Gary Brown of Lineville, Iowa was northbound on Highway 13 when the freight liner failed to negotiate a round-about. Damage to the big rig was extensive and Brown was using a […]
Auditor Nicole Galloway says law enforcement in Missouri has made significant progress in the past nine months to ensure sex offenders comply with the state’s registration law, and to update the database that provides the public with information about offenders. The progress, which comes after an audit of the sex offender registration program last October, […]
A St. Joseph resident has been arrested after allegedly missing a date earlier this month in the Grundy County Circuit Court. Thirty-six-year-old Jessie Matthew Harding is scheduled for Associate Division of circuit court Tuesday, July 23, 2019. Harding’s original charges involved driving while revoked or suspended as well as receiving stolen property in January of […]
A Novinger man has been accused of shooting at someone at the 7th Heaven Convenience Store in Novinger Monday. Online court information shows 37-year-old Richard Lee McCully Junior has been charged in Adair County with three felonies: first-degree assault or attempt, armed criminal action, and unlawful use of a weapon. Bond was set at $150,000 […]
The Missouri State Highway Patrol has released their fourth of July holiday period statistics for 2019, which include 12 statewide traffic fatalities and three drownings. The 2019 fourth of July counting period began at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 3 and continued through midnight Sunday, July 7, 2019. During the counting period in 2018, four people […]
The Environmental Protection Agency released the proposed Renewable Volume Obligation rule for 2020. Once again EPA has failed to account for lost volumes due to refinery exemptions and uphold the President’s commitment to the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). “We are frustrated the EPA did not account for potential waived gallons going forward in the proposed […]
Two more employees of Ripley Entertainment, Inc. – the company that operated duck boat rides in Branson, Missouri – along with the captain of the duck boat that sank at Table Rock Lake last summer, resulting in the deaths of 17 people, have been indicted by a federal grand jury. Curtis P. Lanham, 36, of […]
The Spickard Board of Aldermen approved ordinances adopting water and sewer rates as well as amending the budget this week. Each vote was three to zero with board member Charles Holtzclaw was absent. The board approved replacing a sewer grinder pump control panel that Mayor Alan Tharp reported had failed. Irvinbuilt construction reported the cost […]
Two teenagers from Cowgill were injured late Sunday morning when the vehicle they were in, and a pickup truck, collided on Highway 116 in Caldwell County. Eighteen-year-old Justin Blakely, as well as for the passenger, 18-year-old Riley Coon both received serious injuries and were flown by LifeFlight Eagle to the Truman Medical Center. The driver […]
A St. Joseph, Missouri, man who led law enforcement officers in a pursuit in Taney County, Missouri, was indicted by a federal grand jury for possessing approximately six pounds of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. Andrew R. Trammell, 45, was charged in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Springfield, Missouri. The […]
The wind energy power lines known as the Grainbelt Express is moving forward under new ownership. Invenergy got the Missouri Public Service Commission’s unanimous OK to acquire the transmission line project to run from Kansas to the East Coast. This is the latest step in what has been a 5-year process. Landowners and […]
The U.S. House has approved a 19 billion dollar disaster relief package that includes flood aid for Missouri, and the President’s likely to sign it into law yet this week. The bill passed the U.S. Senate late last month, but three House Republicans blocked a procedural move last week to send the bill […]
