A Cameron resident was taken to a hospital following a single vehicle accident late Wednesday night in Ray County. Nineteen-year-old Cierra Adkison of Cameron received minor injuries when the car she was driving traveled off Highway 13 and struck an embankment. Adkison was taken by an ambulance to the Liberty Hospital. The report noted Ms. […]
Within the next few years, the Missouri Department of Transportation has scheduled three construction projects in Grundy County. The proposals are included in the latest, five-year Statewide Transportation Improvement Plan. Projects are also proposed in Mercer County as well as western Sullivan County. The draft of the STIP is open for public comments through Frida,y […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Gallatin man sustained minor injuries in a one-vehicle accident in Johnson County Thursday morning. Eighty-seven-year-old Thomas McWilliams traveled east on U. S. Highway 50 when he reportedly began sneezing and his eyes became watery. The crash happened between Business Highway 13 and West Young Street when he saw a Missouri […]
Bethany and New Hampton residents were injured when, according to the highway patrol, a Freightliner truck hit a pickup that attempted to make a U-turn on Highway 136 west of Bethany. The driver of the pickup, 47-year old Joseph Flinn of Bethany, and a passenger in the pickup, 47-year old Jack Rickey of New Hampton, […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Laddonia woman sustained minor injuries as the result of a two-vehicle accident in Unionville Friday afternoon. Fifty-four-year-old Karen Casady of Laddonia traveled east on U. S. Highway 136 when she reportedly slowed her sports utility vehicle. The SUV was then struck in the rear by an eastbound car driven by […]
The Gallatin Board of Aldermen approved a change order for the new water plant at a meeting Monday evening. The change order was for $5,150 for a lime sludge washdown and $1,780 for stainless steel lockboxes on top of the clear well. The board approved authorizing Mayor Barb Ballew to sign the Certificate of Substantial […]
A Unionville truck driver was taken to Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville following an accident late Wednesday afternoon two miles west of Livonia. The accident report listed 74-year-old Dorvin Ledford with minor injuries. The highway patrol reports Ledford was eastbound when the tractor-trailer he was driving ran off the left side of Highway 136 […]
Two area individuals sustained injuries in a head-on vehicle accident about two miles south of Bethany Monday morning. A delayed report from the Highway Patrol states 38-year-old Jeffrey Prince of Gallatin traveled north on Missouri 13 when his sports utility vehicle began to slide on the snow-covered road, crossed the center line, and struck a […]
Daviess County Public Water Supply District number two has reported a water line break was located at Harbor Avenue and Highway 13. Officials with the rural water district anticipate that water service will be restored by approximately 5 o’clock today. But it asks customers to be prepared for delays. Affected are rural water customers south […]
A Hamilton resident seriously injured in a traffic accident early Saturday south of Gallatin died late Saturday morning at Mosaic Life Care in St. Joseph. The crash has been upgraded to a fatality. 24-year old Harrison Lapen of Hamilton had been taken to the hospital after receiving serious injuries. He was pronounced dead at Mosaic […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Hamilton man sustained serious injuries after his car overturned one mile south of Gallatin at 1:45 am Saturday morning. Twenty-four-year-old Harrison Lapen traveled north on Highway 13 when the vehicle ran off the east side of the road before overturning multiple times. The car came to rest on its top […]
Plans are underway to replace the bridge on Route 13 over Honey Creek. The Missouri Department of Transportation will hold a community briefing on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Gallatin R-V School in the Commons area. Designers and engineers from the Missouri Department of Transportation will be on hand […]
A Bethany man was killed early Sunday south of Bethany when the car he was driving traveled off Highway 13. 43-year old Jason Redmond of Bethany was pronounced dead at the scene about five miles south of Bethany. Redmond was northbound on Highway 13 when the car went off the left side of the road, […]
Drivers from Polo were injured in a two vehicle accident early Tuesday evening on Highway 13 near Route D in Ray County. The highway patrol reports the driver of a motorcycle, 61-year-old Dennis Hallaver of Polo, was seriously injured and flown by a medical helicopter to Truman Medical Center. The other driver, 79-year-old Joyce Heide of […]
A resident of Cowgill, 76-year-old Sandra Reeves, was injured Wednesday in a Highway 13 accident in Ray County. The highway patrol reports Reeves was taken by ambulance to Ray County Memorial Hospital in Richmond with minor injuries. She was a passenger in a vehicle driven by 76-year-old Charles Reeves of Cowgill. They were driving northbound when […]
Three teenagers were injured, including one from Polo, when two vehicles collided yesterday afternoon at a Ray County intersection. The highway patrol listed injuries as moderate for one driver, 18-year-old Dakota Shatto of Rayville. His passenger, 18-year-old Jonathan Shipley of Lawson received minor injuries. A passenger in a second vehicle, 14-year-old Selina Gomez of Polo […]
The Highway Patrol reports two individuals sustained injuries in a two-vehicle accident in Daviess County Tuesday afternoon. Twenty-four-year-old Isaac Smith of Bethany drove west on 400th Street five miles north of Coffey when he failed to stop for a stop sign at the intersection with Missouri 13. Smith pulled into the path of 23-year-old Samantha […]
A woman from Polo was killed when she was thrown from an overturning vehicle yesterday afternoon in Caldwell County. The highway patrol listed the victim as 36-year-old Misty Kapitza of Polo. The patrol reports a pickup she was driving was northbound on Highway 13, traveled off the west side of the road and struck a […]
Two people from the Des Moines, Iowa metropolitan area were injured Sunday afternoon in a single vehicle accident on Highway 13 in Daviess County. The location was one mile north of Coffey. The Highway Patrol said the driver, 27-year old Andrew Davidson and passenger, 26-year old Whitley Davidson, were taken by ambulance to Harrison County […]
A rollover accident Monday night approximately five miles north of Coffey resulted in what the highway patrol called minor injuries for a teenager from Holts Summit. 18-year-old Gage Humphrey was transported by ambulance to Harrison County Community Hospital in Bethany. The patrol reported the northbound vehicle Humphrey was driving ran off twice, on the east side of […]
