The Highway Patrol reports a Meadville man sustained serious injuries when the dump truck he drove overturned three miles east of Chillicothe on Tuesday afternoon, November 30th. Emergency services transported 57-year-old Darrell Kraus to Hedrick Medical Center. The truck traveled east on Highway 36 before running off the north side of the road, striking a […]
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports nine people died in traffic crashes during this year’s Thanksgiving holiday counting period–from 6 p.m. Wednesday, November 24, 2021, through 11:59 p.m. Sunday, November 28, 2021. There were no boating crashes or drownings. During the Thanksgiving holiday counting period, troopers report the following traffic statistics for 2021 (preliminary): Crashes ─ 457 […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Cameron man sustained moderate injuries when the car he drove was struck by a Kenworth truck seven miles east of Saint Joseph the morning of November 26th. Emergency medical services transported 74-year old David Marmet to Mosaic Life Care. No injuries were reported for truck driver 74-year-old John Chase of […]
A Bucklin man was injured Thursday night when the car he was driving veered off a street in Bucklin and struck a tree. Twenty-nine-year-old Kenneth Fisher received serious injuries and was flown by medical helicopter (Life flight Eagle) to University Hospital in Columbia. The car was demolished in the wreck on South Livingston Street and […]
A two-vehicle crash at Stewartsville last night injured one driver and resulted in the arrest of the other. Forty-one-year-old Sarah Hanson of Stewartsville received minor injuries and was taken by ambulance to Mosiac Life Care in St. Joseph. Hanson was driving southbound on Route K when her sport utility vehicle was struck head-on by a […]
An Iowa resident was injured early Sunday evening in an Interstate 35 accident approximately one mile south of Pattonsburg. Thirty-one-year-old Tiffany Mallek of Ankeny, Iowa received moderate injuries and was taken by ambulance to Liberty Hospital. The minivan driven by Mallek and a pickup operated by 43-year-old Laura Beerbower of Mount Ayr, Iowa were northbound […]
A New Cambria woman sustained injuries when the vehicle in which she was a passenger struck a deer one mile west of Macon the morning of November 19th. The Highway Patrol reports 67-year-old Debbie Shoemaker refused treatment at the scene for minor injuries and was to seek treatment on her own. No injuries were reported […]
A Missouri man was sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing firearms after leading law enforcement officers on a high-speed chase from Bolivar, Mo., to Springfield, Mo. Milton W. Sparks, 38, of Aurora, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool to 15 years in federal prison without parole. On April 15, 2021, Sparks […]
A Trenton woman sustained minor injuries when the minivan in which she was a passenger hit a deer two miles east of Winston on Tuesday morning, November 16. Emergency medical services transported 80-year-old Mary Griffon to the Cameron Regional Medical Center. No injuries were reported for the driver, 70-year-old Mark Englert of Chillicothe. The vehicle […]
One person was killed and another was injured in an accident early Monday evening one mile north of Mercer. Sixty-four-year-old Gary Sexton of Liberty was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:45 pm. Receiving serious injuries was 71-year-old Merlin Hall of State Center, Iowa who was taken by ambulance to Wayne County Hospital in Corydon, […]
A Carrollton resident was injured on Tuesday morning when the car she was driving went off a Chariton County highway and struck an embankment on Highway 5 one mile north of the unincorporated town of Forest Green in southeast Chariton County. The highway patrol listed injuries as moderate for 19-year-old Sally Schmidt, who was taken […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Brookfield man sustained minor injuries in a three-vehicle accident in Marceline on Tuesday morning, November 9. An ambulance transported the driver of the car 24-year-old Keegan Sheppard to Pershing Memorial Hospital. No injuries were reported for the drivers of a pickup truck, 63-year-old C. G. Mick of Brookfield, or a […]
A resident of Kidder was injured early Monday evening in a rollover accident on Highway 36 near Wheeling. Fifty-five-year-old Daniel Landi was taken by EMS to Hedrick Medical Center with minor injuries. The sports utility vehicle was westbound when it went off the left side of the highway, the driver overcorrected causing the vehicle to […]
The Trenton Police Department reports no one was injured when a school bus struck a stop sign and street sign at the intersection of East Fifth and Maupin streets on Friday afternoon, November 5th. Twenty-six-year-old Nicholas Allen Smith of Chillicothe drove the Apple Bus Company bus that held 24 passengers at the time. The bus […]
A Cameron resident was hurt Sunday morning when the sports utility vehicle she was driving hit a deer on Highway 116 east of Lathrop. Sixty-seven-year-old Terri Neely was taken by Caldwell County Ambulance to Liberty Hospital with serious injuries. The accident happened at approximately 8:30 Sunday morning four miles east of Lathrop as the SUV, […]
A Macon man sustained what the Highway Patrol called minor injuries when the motorcycle he drove overturned three-quarters of a mile west of Macon the afternoon of November 5th. An ambulance took 62-year-old George Stark to the Samaritan Hospital of Macon. The motorcycle traveled west on Jet Road before Stark reportedly lost control on the […]
A woman and young boy from Minnesota were injured early Tuesday evening in an Interstate 35 accident one mile south of Pattonsburg. Authorities report the car was allegedly forced off the highway by a tractor-trailer. The car went into the median, struck the ground, partially overturned, and was demolished. Taken to the Liberty Hospital were […]
A six-year-old girl from Pattonsburg was taken to the hospital following an accident early Tuesday evening that involved a pickup striking a deer on Route E in rural DeKalb county. The patrol described the girls’ injuries as minor and she was taken by a private vehicle to Mosiac Medical Center in Albany. The pickup was […]
A crash at 1:50 am Tuesday injured the teen driver of a car that fell asleep and traveled off Highway 36 in Linn County. The driver over-corrected, after waking, causing the car to strike a guardrail three miles west of Laclede. The 16-year-old driver and a 17-year-old passenger, both from Chillicothe, received minor to moderate […]
A Cameron resident, 39-year-old David Kern, received moderate injuries when the southbound pickup he was driving went out of control and traveled off Route A and struck a ditch on mile south of Cameron. Kern was taken by EMS to Liberty Hospital. The pickup sustained moderate damage and the report indicates he was using a […]
