A Brookfield resident was fatally injured early Sunday when the UTV she was operating went off the road east of Brookfield. Forty-nine-year-old Sharese Tollerton of Brookfield was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before 8 o’clock Sunday morning, approximately seven hours after the accident was believed to have occurred two miles east of Brookfield on […]
A Hopkins resident was killed and two others from Hopkins were hurt Saturday night in the head-on collision of a van and a pickup truck on a snow-covered road in Nodaway County. Fatally injured was 34-year-old Sharon Snuffer who was a passenger in the van driven by her 37-year-old husband, Justin snuffer. He was taken […]
Three deaths reported as hunting accidents in Missouri over the weekend are under investigation with one fatal incident near Atlanta. The Macon County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a rifle that allegedly fired accidentally and killed an Illinois hunter Sunday afternoon. A news release reports 70-year-old Charles Bark and other hunters were preparing to go hunting […]
A woman who had claimed her Ku Klux Klan leader husband was shot to death by her son now says in a letter from jail that she was the one who pulled the trigger. The wife of a southeast Missouri Ku Klux Klan leader has changed her story about who killed her husband. But […]
Two people were killed and a third individual was injured Sunday night in a Randolph County accident. The highway patrol identified the fatality victims as 47-year-old John Birmingham of Bucklin and 31-year-old Kayla Cox of Salisbury. Receiving moderate injuries was the driver of a pickup, 67-year-old David Dunn of Huntsville who was taken to University […]
Attorneys from across the country gathered in a Springfield courtroom on Friday to discuss their lawsuits from July’s duck boat mishap that killed 17 people. KOLR-TV’s David Oliver reports.
An accident involving a farm tractor in Carroll County Friday night claimed the life of a Dawn man. The Highway Patrol reports 43-year-old Matthew Olson drove the tractor south on County Road 151 when he attempted to turn right when the tractor overturned and landed on top of Olson. Olson was pronounced dead at the […]
A study by the triple-A Traffic Safety Foundation finds that when a teenage driver crashes with teenage passengers inside, the chance of someone dying dramatically increases. Tiffany Wright with the auto club says the information is shocking. The study says when a teenage driver crashes a vehicle with teenage passengers inside, the chance of […]
On October 29th, 2018 North Central Missouri College was officially designated as a Purple Heart College by the Patriot Members of the Department of Missouri Military Order of the Purple Heart. NCMC was designated for honoring students, Veterans, and their families throughout the years who have earned the Purple Heart Medal. The Purple Heart is […]
A Stewartsville resident was killed when the van he was driving went off Highway 36 near Stewartsville late Saturday morning. Fifty-five-year-old Bryan Candler of Stewartsville was pronounced dead at the scene one mile east of Stewartsville. The highway patrol reports the eastbound van went off the left side of the road, hit a crossover embankment, […]
The Missouri Department of Conservation seeks information in the case of an elk calf that was shot. Conservation agents report the calf was born in the Log Yard area of Shannon County July 13 and was fitted with a VFH radio collar July 14 with the identification number 1829. The calf still had its spots […]
Mother Nature has much to say about soybean yield and grain quality almost every year, says University of Missouri Extension soybean specialist Bill Wiebold. This year was no exception. Several important soybean-growing regions in Missouri experienced severe drought this year. The most worrisome effect from drought is yield loss, but producers face several other effects […]
Highway 5 will be narrowed on Wednesday, October 10th for the motorcade to return the remains of World War II Navy Seaman 2nd Class Harold Lloyd to his final resting place in Laclede. Crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation will close the southbound lane of Route 5 from U.S. Route 36 to just north […]
Dungeons and Dragons took hold in the 1980s and continues to grow in popularity today. The game itself is not as complicated as it used to be years ago, and others skilled in the game are always willing to help out. If you’ve never played Dungeons and Dragons before but would like to try it […]
A deadly plane crash in eastern Missouri is under investigation. Two people are dead from a small plane crash near the Festus airport. The Jefferson County sheriff says the pilot was returning from New York with the purchased plane when it reportedly lost electrical power. The pilot requested someone to stand at the […]
A new study says Missouri is among the U.S. states with the highest rates of women murdered by men. The Violence Policy Center’s report ranks Missouri 7th in the nation for its rate of women killed by men. Missouri’s homicide rate among females murdered by males was 1.84 per 100,000 in 2016. Alaska […]
(Missourinet) – Families of individuals killed when a duck boat sank in southwest Missouri July 19th are objecting to efforts of federal prosecutors to freeze their lawsuits. The Kansas City Star reports attorneys for some of the victims filed documents in federal court last week, saying the suits were brought to get answers to […]
A Hale resident was killed late Saturday night when the car he was driving overturned. Fatally injured was 49-year-old Virgil Keller of Hale who died in the crash on Carroll County Road 331 north of Route J. The highway patrol reports the northbound car went off the left side of the road and overturned demolishing […]
Another lawsuit has been filed in the Branson Duck Boat tragedy days after federal prosecutors asked for a freeze in court cases. Tia Coleman, a survivor whose husband and three children drowned in the incident, filed a suit against Ripley Entertainment and five other entities involved in the ownership and operation of the […]
An elderly Green City man was killed when the farm tractor he was operating overturned on Highway 6 east of Milan. Eighty-nine-year-old David Watt was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident late Friday morning one mile east of Milan on Highway 6. The highway patrol reports the westbound farm tractor ran off the […]
