Traffic Accident

St. Joseph man injured in crash near Osborn

The Highway Patrol reports a Saint Joseph man sustained moderate injuries when a car ran off the road two miles west of Osborn Wednesday morning. Eighty-two-year-old Billie Gilpin drove the car west on U. S. Highway 36 when it ran off the south side of the road into the median and struck a culvert. The […]

Rollover Accident

Crash east of Marceline injures Illinois man

The Highway Patrol reports a Decatur, Illinois man sustained moderate injuries when the pickup truck he drove overturned half a mile east of Marceline Tuesday afternoon. Fifty-two-year-old Jerry Atwood traveled west on U. S. Highway 36 when he reportedly lost control coming out of a curve before the pickup overturned in the road causing extensive […]

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Motorcyclist injured in Saturday crash dies in hospital

A motorcyclist seriously injured in an early Saturday crash near Stewartsville died Saturday afternoon at Mosaic Life Care in St. Joseph. Twenty-year-old Riley Flint of Stewartsville was pronounced dead about 15 hours after the southbound motorcycle he was operating traveled off Route Y at a curve, striking an embankment causing Flint to be thrown from […]

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Braymer woman injured when car strikes big rig trailer

A Braymer resident was hurt when a car hit the side of a tractor-trailer unit near Breckenridge. Forty-one-year-old Angel Butterworth of Braymer was taken to Cameron Regional Medical Center with minor injuries. The accident happened Saturday morning on Highway 36 south of Breckenridge. Ms. Butterworth was a passenger in a car turning west from a […]

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Three injured, one child life-flighted after Saturday crash

The highway patrol reports three Maysville residents were seriously hurt Saturday night when a car traveled off Highway 33. A passenger in the vehicle, five-year-old Brenton Jestes was taken to Cameron Regional Medical Center, then flown by medical helicopter to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. Another passenger, three-year-old Alyssandra Jestes, was taken to Cameron […]

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Environmentalists step up to oppose “Right To Work”

Voters will decide in less than a week whether Missouri will become a right-to-work state, potentially weakening unions. It isn’t just union members and labor groups opposing Proposition A: Environmentalists are standing against the right-to-work proposition as well.  Dennis Roach, a former engineer, and union member and a current member of the Sierra Club said unions […]

Vehicle Crash

Teen injured after striking animal with dirt bike

A boy riding a dirt bike was injured early last evening at McFall when according to the highway patrol, an animal entered the street and was struck by the dirt bike. After impact, the dirt bike overturned throwing the operator off. Fourteen-year-old Chavez Roeder of McFall was taken by private vehicle to the Harrison County […]

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Southwest Missouri man crashes near Cameron

A southwest Missouri resident was injured south of Cameron when the sports utility vehicle he was driving left Highway 69 and hit an embankment. Twenty-four-year-old Kyle Maserang of Carthage was transported to Cameron Regional Medical Center with minor injuries. The accident happened Saturday morning three miles south of Cameron on Highway 69 when the southbound […]

Rollover Accident

Rollover crash in Worth County injures driver

A rollover accident in Worth County Tuesday afternoon injured a resident of Sheridan, Missouri. William Teager was transported by ambulance to the Saint Francis Hospital in Maryville. Teager was southbound when the vehicle he was driving began to travel off the west side of Route F. He overcorrected causing the car to cross the center […]

Unusual Accident

Unusual accident on I-35 leaves one person injured

An accident seven miles south of Cameron Tuesday afternoon left one person injured in an unusual I-35 accident. The highway patrol said 43-year-old Michelle Perry of Wheeling was taken by ambulance to Cameron Regional Medical Center with minor injuries. The accident happened when a southbound pickup had a mechanical failure with the tow dolly. The […]

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Mooresville man arrested on assault allegation

On Sunday, July 22, the Livingston County Sheriff’s Department and Chillicothe Department of Emergency Services responded to Mooresville on a report of a man being assaulted and injured. Sheriff Steve Cox said the investigation resulted in one person joking to a neighbor about throwing a spittoon into a pool when the male neighbor responded with […]