A former inmate at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution filed a suit Tuesday accusing a correctional center employee and a mental health professional of rape and sexual abuse. Also named in the suit are a Virginia mental health services company and the supervisors of the accused. Jason Taylor with Missouri Net files this report. […]
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Grundy County Health Department to hold safety and rescue skills class for teens
The Grundy County Health Department will hold a class to teach safety and rescue skills to young teens who watch their younger siblings or babysit other children. The Safe Sitter class at the health department in Trenton June 25th from 9 o’clock in the morning to 3:30 in the afternoon. Participants will learn how to […]
Trenton man life-flighted after pickup strikes UTV
The Trenton Police Department reports a Trenton man sustained serious injuries, and a Newtown man received a citation as the result of a pickup truck hitting a utility terrain vehicle Monday. Trenton Police Officer Jeff Spencer reports 79-year-old John Kuttler of Trenton traveled south on Highway 65 in Trenton on his UTV and stopped to […]
Hamilton resident hurt in Highway 65 crash in Carroll County
KTTN wishes to make a correction in our script on the injury accident Tuesday night at Route U and Highway 65 in northern Carroll County. A car driven by 46-year-old Deidre May Johnson of Hamilton was stopped on 65 to allow another vehicle to make a turn. Her car was struck from behind by a […]
Two charged with attempted escape from Grundy County Law Enforcement Center
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of three men Thursday, with two of the men facing charges while attempting to escape from the Grundy County Law Enforcement Center. The Trenton Police Department arrested 52-year-old Alfred Demond Green of Trenton on misdemeanor charges of leaving the scene of an accident, driving while intoxicated, and […]
Affordable Care Act: 2017 saw increase in uninsured Missourians
A new Gallup survey shows that the uninsured rate rose significantly in Missouri in 2017, a year marked by repeated attempts to repeal, sabotage, or weaken the health care programs and protections of the Affordable Care Act. Gallup attributes the dramatic increase in the number of uninsured Missourians to both the uncertainty created by repeated […]
Jameson man, who’s 4-year-old son was injured in crash, makes court appearance
A preliminary hearing has been continued for a Jameson man charged with the felonies of driving while intoxicated: serious physical injury and first degree endangering the welfare of a child, serious physical injury. Online court information shows 29-year-old Andrew Adkison appeared in Daviess County Circuit Court Wednesday. His attorney moved for the preliminary hearing to […]
Trenton teens involved in rollover crash on Northwest 5th
The highway patrol reports a Trenton teen received a minor injury in a rollover accident this morning on Northwest 5th Street just outside of the city limits by one and a half miles. The highway patrol said 16-year-old Aaron Farrell declined treatment at the scene. Neither he nor his passenger, 16-year-old Lane Winsor of Trenton, […]
Trenton authorities report two arrests on Sunday
Authorities are reporting the arrest of two individuals on Sunday. Trenton resident 24-year-old Levi Judson O’Neal has been arrested on a Grundy County warrant accusing of two counts of second-degree burglary. O’Neal is accused of burglary, for the alleged purpose of stealing, at two of the Plaza Apartments. The court information indicates the incidents happened between August […]
Tractor-trailer demolished on Highway 24
A Chariton County accident Monday night injured a truck driver from Keytesville. The highway patrol reports 62-year-old William Fox was taken by ambulance to the University Hospital in Columbia with minor injuries. A state trooper reported Fox was driving a tractor-trailer westbound on Highway 24 when he attempted a right turn onto Route F but lost […]
Chillicothe teen injured in crash on rural Livingston County road
A Chillicothe teenager, 17-year-old Blake Curtis, received moderate injuries when the sports utility vehicle he was driving was involved in a rollover accident one mile west of Chillicothe. Curtis was taken by ambulance to Hedrick Medical Center. The reported note he was using a seat belt. The highway patrol reports Curtis was eastbound on County […]
Princeton woman injured in crash on Highway 136
A Princeton resident, 21-year-old Christina Speakman, was taken by ambulance to Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton with moderate injuries following a rollover accident three miles east of Princeton. She was not wearing a seat belt. Speakman had been westbound on Highway 136 when the sports utility vehicle failed to negotiate a curve, traveled off the […]
Galt man injured when grain truck overturns
A Galt resident was hurt Friday afternoon when the grain truck he was driving overturned on Highway 146 east of Gilman City. Forty-three-year-old Jesse Fletchall was taken by private vehicle to Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton with moderate injuries. The accident happened two miles east of Gilman City on Highway 146 when the straight grain […]
Lawson man thrown from vehicle in Ray County crash
The Highway Patrol reports a Lawson man sustained serious injuries when he was ejected from his vehicle in a one-vehicle crash in northwestern Ray County Saturday. Twenty-year-old Brett Yager traveled north on Route C when his vehicle reportedly crossed the center line and ran off the left side of the road about 131 feet north […]
Teach kids about mowing the lawn safely
With the warmer weather arriving, and young people looking to earn some money, lawn mowing is often one of the first jobs young people have. It is also one of the most dangerous spring activities, says University of Missouri Extension health and safety specialist Karen Funkenbusch. U.S. hospital emergency departments treat about 80,000 people each […]
Brookfield teen hurt in crash near Purdin
A Brookfield woman received what the highway patrol called moderate injuries in a single vehicle accident this morning on Route KK five miles northeast of Purdin. The highway patrol said 19-year-old Gabrielle Munsterman was taken to the Pershing Hospital in Brookfield. The car she was driving was northbound on the lettered highway when, according to […]
Chillicothe teen hurt in crash that demolishes pickup
A Chillicothe teen was injured Friday afternoon when the pickup truck he was driving overturned on a county road west of Chillicothe. Sixteen-year-old Brendon Nelson was transported by private vehicle to Hedrick Medical Center with moderate injuries. The accident happened two miles west of Chillicothe on Livingston County Road 236 when the eastbound pickup went […]
Kirksville man hurt in Friday crash
A Kirksville man was hurt when the sports utility vehicle he was driving went off a road hitting a sign and a tree Southwest of Kirksville. Fifty-five-year-old Thomas Ireland was taken to Northeast Regional Medical Center with moderate injuries. The accident happened Friday afternoon nearly five miles southwest of Kirksville on Route N. The patrol reports […]
Braymer men hurt, one life-flighted after crash on Catawba Road
Two Braymer residents were injured when, according to the highway patrol, the trucks they were driving collided near a hillcrest Thursday afternoon. The accident location on Catawba Road is five miles to the northwest of Braymer. The highway patrol described injuries as serious for 39-year-old Christopher Waters and moderate for 40-year-old Kevin Leakey. The report […]
Charges filed against Jameson man who’s 4-year-old son was injured in crash
Charges have been filed in Daviess County Circuit Court accusing a Jameson man of his involvement in an injury accident last Saturday night. 29-year-old Andrew Adkison faces one felony count of driving while intoxicated, alcohol involved, causing serious injury to a young boy who was a passenger in the pickup truck. Adkison faces a misdemeanor […]