Leadership Northwest Missouri recently held their 2021 graduation ceremony in Cameron at the Cameron Community Center. The celebration began with a welcome by Master of Ceremonies, Julie Robertson, Chair of the Graduation Planning Committee and 2020 LNWMO alum. Tim Wymes, 2020 LNWMO alum, blessed the group with an invocation prior to dinner. Katelyn Addison and […]
Chillicothe Police responded to a report of an intruder inside a house in the 300 block of Mansur Street. Upon arrival, officers determined a 31 year old male suspect had assaulted the resident while inside the home. Officers located the individual who then allegedly used a closed fist to assault an officer in the face. […]
Livingston County Sheriff Steve Cox reports no one was injured on July 3 when the sheriff’s office and Highway Patrol responded to a report of a man being suicidal. Cox says officers were unable to make contact with the subject who was inside a home at a rural location. However, officers could see the man […]
Livingston County Sheriff Steve Cox has released information about recent incidents involving the sheriff’s office. One incident involved grandparents reporting a juvenile running away from home. Cox says the sheriff’s office responded to a rural area July 4th, and a deputy located the pre-teen. The youth was caught after a reported foot chase of about […]
Chillicothe Police officers took reports of an assault at the Chilli Bay Water Park, an apparently lost and confused person in the 700 block of Elm Street, and a disturbance in the 1400 block of Alexander Street on June 15. Assistant Police Chief Rick Sampsel says two juveniles assaulted each other at the water park, […]
Two motorcycles were involved in an accident Monday morning in northern Carroll County. The Highway Patrol listed injuries as moderate for 76-year-old Ronald Schuler of Carrollton, who was taken by EMS to the Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe. The other motorcyclist, 70-year-old Norman Bliss of Carrollton, wasn’t hurt. The motorcycle driven by Schuler was overtaking […]
Residents of Trenton and Hale received minor injuries when the vehicles they were driving collided Monday morning two miles north of Wheeling. Twenty-eight-year-old Marina Munday of Trenton was taken by a private vehicle to Hedrick Medical Center. The other driver, 51-year-old Travis Summers of Hale, was to seek his own medical treatment. A trooper reported […]
Chillicothe Police responded Thursday evening, June 10 to a report of someone in the area of Hedrick Medical Center attempting to injure himself or herself and who was suicidal. Assistant Chillicothe Police Chief Rick Sampsel reports the person was belligerent and assaulted officers. The person was transported to the police department and then to Hedrick […]
The Community Blood Center has announced a blood emergency, with only a three-day blood supply. The center reports the long-term impact of the pandemic has resulted in a year of hardly any youth first-time donors, hundreds fewer blood drives, and 25,000 donors in the greater Kansas City area that have yet to return to donate […]
Saint Luke’s top priority is to care for patients and staff and keep everyone as healthy as possible. As the continued spread of COVID-19 has increased in the region, Wright Memorial Hospital and Hedrick Medical Center have revised their visitor guidelines to ‘Level 4 Restricted’ visitation, starting June 3. Wright Memorial and Hedrick were previously […]
An elderly Chillicothe resident were taken to the hospital following a two-vehicle accident early Tuesday evening in rural Livingston County, four miles northwest of Chillicothe. Ninty three-year-old Charles Radcliff received minor injuries and a private vehicle took him to Hedrick Medical Center. The crash occurred when a car driven by a 16-year-old Chillicothe boy was […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Linneus woman sustained minor injuries after a deer traveled into the path of a car four miles west of Chula the morning of May 27th. An ambulance transported 58-year-old Kathi Tolly to the Hedrick Medical Center of Chillicothe. The car headed east on Route K before the deer traveled into […]
An accident overnight injured two people, including a pedestrian, on Livingston County Route JJ. The driver of a northbound pickup was arrested after it collided with a stopped utility terrain vehicle one and a half miles north of Avalon. Serious injuries were reported for the operator of the John Deere Gator, 75-year-old Charles Plummer of […]
Wright Memorial Hospital and Hedrick Medical Center have revised their visitor guidelines to allow level 3 visitation as of May 17. Wright Memorial and Hedrick were previously at a ‘Level 4’, which allowed patients only one visitor per day. Level 3 visitor guidelines allow two visitors per patient per day in inpatient areas and the […]
The Community Action Partnership of North Central Missouri provides various services in the Green Hills area. One of those services is the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps households in need with utilities. Executive Director Chris Small reports Community Action works with more than 40 utility vendors. Some of the vendors are municipal […]
The 36th Annual Chautauqua in the Park will be held September 11-12, 2021, at Simpson Park in Chillicothe, Missouri. This annual event, sponsored by the Chillicothe Area Chamber of Commerce and the Chillicothe Area Arts Council, and presented by Hedrick Medical Center, has a wide variety of entertainment, activities, artists, crafts, and food. Vendor registration […]
Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton is the only critical access hospital in the state of Missouri to receive a five-star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The new ratings were released by CMS on April 28. There are 35 critical access hospitals in Missouri. The rating also places Wright Memorial in the […]
Two drivers were injured Sunday night when according to the highway patrol, one vehicle ran into the rear of another on Highway 5 in Linn County. Nineteen-year-old Malachi Whitson of Hale was taken by private vehicle to the Hedrick Medical Center. 64-year-old Stephen Biggs of Purdin was taken by ambulance to Pershing Memorial Hospital in […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Meadville woman sustained moderate injuries when the car she drove swerved to miss a deer seven miles northeast of Meadville the morning of April 21st. An ambulance transported 40-year-old Angela Wiles to the Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe. The car traveled east on Route B before running off the right […]
A Ludlow woman has been charged with a felony after law enforcement responded to an individual possibly overdosing on narcotics in March. Thirty-two-year-old Kayla Sue Bower has been charged with first-degree endangering the welfare of a child, creating substantial risk, first offense. An initial appearance in court is scheduled for May 26th. A probable cause […]
