Views: 1The University of Missouri School of Medicine has received two Health Resources and Services Administration grants totaling nearly $5 million to increase the number of doctors in Missouri and address the physician shortages in rural parts of the state. A Missouri Hospital Association study last year predicted a shortage of up to 49,000 primary […]
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Senior Life Solution program raising awareness during National Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month
Views: 0September is National Suicide Prevention and Awareness month and Wright Memorial Hospital’s Senior Life Solutions program is working to raise awareness. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, an average of 129 deaths by suicide occur per day and there are an estimated 1,400,000 suicide attempts per year. Talk of suicide should never […]
Four die in traffic crashes over 2019 Labor Day holiday weekend
Views: 3Four people died in traffic crashes during the 2019 Labor Day holiday weekend. Last year, there were 11 fatalities. The 2019 counting period for the Labor Day holiday ran from 6 p.m., Friday, August 30, through 11:59 p.m., Monday, September 2, 2019. 2019 Labor Day Holiday Traffic Statistics Crashes 309 Injuries 107 […]
Three-car crash injures Brookfield man
Views: 3A Brookfield resident was injured Monday afternoon in an accident involving three cars on Highway 36, three miles to the east of Brookfield. Forty-four-year-old Michael St. Lawrence of Brookfield received minor injuries and sought treatment at Pershing Memorial Hospital. Drivers of two other vehicles were not injured. All were using seat belts. A car […]
Laredo teen injured in crash west of Trenton
Views: 2A Laredo resident was injured in a two-vehicle crash Monday night one mile west of Trenton. The highway patrol reports 18-year-old Ashley Casper of Laredo was taken by Grundy County EMS to Wright Memorial Hospital with moderate injuries. Ms. Casper was driving a car westbound on Highway 6 when a vehicle in front of […]
Crash 3-miles north of Novinger causes serious injuries
Views: 0A man from Queen City was injured in a utility vehicle rollover accident on Sunday night three miles north of Novinger. Twenty-five-year-old Cody Winn was taken by ambulance to University Hospital in Columbia with serious injuries The UTV was northbound on private property where it was apparently traveling too fast for conditions on a […]
Trenton man injured when truck overturns near Pollock
Views: 0The Highway Patrol reports a Trenton man sustained serious injuries when the heavy-duty truck he drove overturned three miles south of Pollock on Friday morning. An ambulance transported 52-year-old Jeffery Jarrett to the Sullivan County Memorial Hospital of Milan. The truck traveled south on Route B before it ran off the road and overturned, […]
SUV strikes agricultural sprayer east of Gallatin
Views: 0The Highway Patrol reports a Bartlesville, Oklahoma man sustained minor injuries when the sports utility vehicle in which he was a passenger struck an agricultural sprayer one mile east of Gallatin around noon on Thursday. An ambulance transported 80-year-old John McCollum to Wright Memorial Hospital of Trenton. SUV driver 79-year-old William Estes of Bartlesville, […]
Audio: Missouri issues health advisory associated with vaping
Views: 0The Department of Health and Senior Services has issued a health advisory to providers and partners regarding severe lung disease associated with vaping. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports there have now been 193 potential cases of severe lung illness associated with vaping in 22 states from June 28-August 20. The CDC […]
Milan teenager hurt in Saturday crash
Views: 0The Highway Patrol reports a Milan resident sustained minor injuries as a result of the sports utility vehicle she drove when it ran off the road and hit two guardrails three miles south of Browning early Saturday morning. Nineteen-year-old Mackenzie McDanel was transported to Pershing Memorial Hospital of Brookfield. The SUV traveled north on […]
Over 400 cases reported statewide in Hepatitis A outbreak in Missouri
Views: 0From September 15, 2017, to August 20, 2019, there have been 414 hepatitis A outbreak-associated cases in 35 Missouri counties. Of the cases reported, there have been 233 hepatitis A outbreak-associated hospitalizations and 2 hepatitis A outbreak-associated deaths. The disease appears to be spreading through direct person-to-person contact, mostly among people who use illicit […]
Trenton man attempts to take his life at Charlie Dye Bridge
Views: 1Grundy County Coroner Dewayne Slater has confirmed the death of a Trenton man who attempted to take his own life outside of the Trenton city limits on Friday, August 16, 2019. Slater says Tim Demsich was transported from the Charlie Dye Bridge to a Kansas City hospital before he died later in the day. […]
North Central Missouri College hires new Chief Information Officer
Views: 1Jennifer Triplett from Kansas City, Missouri, has been hired as North Central Missouri College’s Chief Information Officer (CIO). Jennifer began her duties at the end of July, and fall 2019 will be her first semester at NCMC. Jennifer will oversee all components of the Information Technology (IT) department and serve as a member of […]
Inmate who walked away from work at Missouri State Fair apprehended
Views: 1Shannon Dewayne Watts, a Tipton Correctional Center inmate who walked away from his work site at the Missouri State Fair after completing his work-release job late Sunday night, has been apprehended. At 11:20 p.m. Monday, Aug. 19, Pettis County Dispatch reported Watts had been found unconscious with apparent head injuries near Highway B between […]
Cainsville man injured in crash on Highway 136
Views: 0A Cainsville man was injured when the pickup he was driving left Highway 136 and went through a field where it struck a hay bale, shed, and a camper three miles east of Bethany. Sixty-year-old Matthew Dixon of Cainsville was taken by ambulance to Harrison County Community Hospital with minor injuries. Dixon was not […]
Newtown woman injured during crash near Milan
Views: 3A Newtown resident was hurt in Sullivan County when the van she was driving overturned off Route E west of Milan. Twenty-seven-year-old Judith Vasquez was taken by private vehicle to Sullivan County Memorial Hospital in Milan with minor injuries. The accident happened five miles west of Milan on Route E as the westbound van […]
Motorcyclist misses 1st deer, 2nd deer causes crash demolishing bike
Views: 0A Rock Port man was hurt early Sunday in Nodaway County when the motorcycle he was operating was hit by a deer and went out of control. Twenty-year-old James Barnhart was taken to Fairfax Community Hospital with moderate injuries. The crash took place two miles west of Burlington Junction on Highway 136 as Barnhart […]
Gallatin man escapes injury, two from Jamesport hurt in Saturday crash
Views: 0Two 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 […]
Two Chillicothe teens injured in Saturday crash, driver accused of DWI
Views: 0Two Chillicothe residents were hurt early on Saturday in Carroll County when the car they were in went off a county road and hit a tree. Rosalynn Pittman-Maupin and Marcella Epperson, both 15, were taken to Carroll County Memorial Hospital in Carrollton with minor injuries. Both were passengers in a car driven by 22-year […]
Woman arrested in Harrison County following crash, accused of DWI
Views: 0A Kansas City woman was arrested following a single-vehicle crash early Thursday evening in rural Harrison County. Ms. Morgan received minor injuries in the accident seven miles east of Bethany and was taken by ambulance to the Harrison County Community Hospital in Bethany. The car was northbound when it traveled off the east side […]