Thirty-four-year-old Kristopher Sean Matthews (aka Ali Jibreel) admitted to conspiring to provide material support to the designated foreign terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham/Syria (aka ISIS), announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer for the Western District of Texas, and FBI Special Agent in Charge […]
The Union Coon Creek Baptist Church west of Trenton served almost 1,000 meals for its Annual Thanksgiving Dinner on November 26th. The pastor’s wife, Dianna Crawford, says things were “a little rough at the beginning” on November 26th because the church did things differently this year. One hundred forty (140) meals were picked […]
The Sullivan County Health Department confirms an additional death due to COVID-19, bringing the total to eight. Three additional cases have also been confirmed, which makes that total 631. There are 42 active cases and four active probable cases for Sullivan County. The Livingston County Health Center announces another death related to COVID-19, making the […]
The Grundy County Health Department has announced another death due to COVID-19 which brings the total number of deaths to 19. Fifteen cases were added since November 24th, which makes the total 633. Four hundred sixty-eight cases have been confirmed. One hundred twelve are active. The Linn County Health Department on November 24th reported two […]
Chillicothe police report the arrest of an individual stemming from investigations that included the alleged theft of a motor vehicle. Saturday night, November 21, Chillicothe police received a report of a stolen vehicle from the 300 block of Edgerton. Four hours later that night, officers were called to the 400 block of Jackson Street to […]
The Livingston County Health Center announces an additional COVID-19-related death, bringing the total to 19. Eleven new cases were also added for a total of 746. Of the 79 active cases, 56 are in the community, 15 are in facilities, and eight are in schools. There are 20 COVID-19-related hospitalizations for Livingston County. COVID-19 cases […]
The North Central Missouri College Board of Trustees approved multiple personnel items at a meeting on November 24th. One was the retirement of English Instructor and Department Chairperson Linda Cowling effective at the end of the summer intercession in 2021. Fourteen of Cowling’s 28 years in education have been at NCMC. The board approved emeritus status […]
A Chillicothe man has been charged in Clinton County with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death. The crash happened four miles east of Lathrop on November 23rd in which a truck driver died. Forty-three-year-old John Pollock also faces tampering with a motor vehicle—first degree. Pollock entered a plea of not guilty on November […]
Jeramy Shaw from St. Louis, MO, has been selected as North Central Missouri College’s Outstanding Student for November. Jeramy, a men’s basketball player, plans to graduate from NCMC with his Associate in Arts degree in the spring of 2021. He then plans to transfer to a four-year university to continue his basketball career and obtain […]
In Adair County, 12-miles miles southwest of Kirksville, a Green City woman received moderate injuries when a southbound pickup began sliding on snow-covered Highway 11, traveled off the east side, and struck a fence. Twenty-four-year-old Kylie Perez was taken to Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville. The pickup was driven by her husband, 37-year-old Lino […]
In Daviess County, on northbound Interstate 35 Monday afternoon, a sports utility vehicle went out of control on the slushy highway, traveled off the east side of the road, and struck a bridge rail. Sixty-eight-year-old Sheila Seager of Jameson received minor injuries and was taken by ambulance to the Cameron Regional Medical Center. Seager was […]
Four people received serious injuries, three of them teenagers from Lathrop, when two vehicles met Monday afternoon on an icy Interstate 35 two and one-half miles south of Lathrop in Clinton County. Injured were the driver of a car, 18-year-old Devyn Robinson, and passengers 19-year-old Blake Brown and 19-year-old Kriston Pennington. Also with serious injuries […]
A truck driver from Kansas City was killed and another driver from east-central Missouri was arrested following an accident before daylight Monday morning in Clinton County. The crash happened four miles east of Lathrop near the Caldwell-Clinton County line. Pronounced dead at the scene was 44-year-old Benjamin Reed of Kansas City. Reed was driving a […]
The Trenton City Council Monday night voted to have an ordinance prepared to call for a public vote on a proposed local use tax within the city of Trenton. The council also approved recommended wage increases for the Trenton Police Department in an effort to attract candidates for police officer. Both topics had gone to […]
On August 10, 2021, Missouri turns the ripe age of 200 years old. The U.S. Postal Service plans to release several new stamps in 2021, including one to showcase Missouri’s bicentennial birthday. The stamp art is an existing photograph by prominent landscape photographer Charles Gurche. It features the Bollinger Mill State Historic Site in southeast […]
Trenton R-9 Superintendent Mike Stegman issued a special notice that the district will not hold school on November 23rd and 24th due to high numbers of COVID-19 positive and quarantined students. There will also be no practices or activities during the break. Stegman notes these days off from school will give Trenton R-9 an additional […]
Thirty new COVID-19 cases were reported for Grundy County on November 19th, which the health department notes is the highest number in a 24-hour period. The total number of cases is 592. Four hundred thirty-seven cases have been confirmed, and 155 are probable. One hundred twenty-six cases are active. Eighteen COVID-19-related deaths have been reported […]
The Harrison County Health Department announces four additional COVID-19-related deaths for a total of five. The total number of cases increased by seven to 400. The number of active cases dropped by 31 to 67. Two COVID-19-related deaths have been added in Daviess County since November 12th, which the health department reports brings the total […]
The Chillicothe Fire Department responded to a dead tree on fire the evening of November 19th. Upon arrival at 1398 South Mitchell, firefighters found a three to four-foot diameter tree on fire and lying on the ground near a brush pile. Firefighters began extinguishing the fire with a hand line while they set up a […]
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases increased by 18 in Harrison County to 393. The health department notes 224 of the positives are female, and 169 are male. Active cases went up by four to 98. One COVID-19-related death has been reported for Harrison County. The Livingston County Health Center announces 10 new COVID-19 cases […]
