The Missouri Attorney General’s office has filed charges in Jackson and Clay Counties against Kristofer Bain, 40, for allegedly defrauding consumers in connection with his business, Telos Contracting LLC. According to the allegations, Bain promised to renovate a consumer’s home in Jackson County in exchange for large advance payments. After taking several payments from the […]
The city of Trenton and its municipal utility expect to save money on interest costs with the re-financing of three long-term debts. It was announced the savings amounts to $658,000 over the length of the loans. Two involve 2012 issued bonds and the 2014 issued bonds for Trenton Municipal Utilities projects done at the water […]
Trenton Rotary Club is participating in the shoe donation project of Rotary International with a total of 152 pairs of shoes collected locally. The shoes are to be presented when the District 6040 caravan makes its stop in Trenton on Saturday, May 15. The presentation is expected to take place at 10:15 am in the […]
Missouri voting-rights advocates joined a national call to action Saturday to promote the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the For the People Act. The Lewis Act would require states with a history of voter discrimination to get approval from the Justice Department before making legal changes to voting rules. Julie Steiger, co-president of the League of […]
Missouri astronaut Mike Hopkins says looking out the window at the International Space Station took his breath away. Hopkins, a native of southern Missouri’s Richland, was the commander of a crew who spent six months at the International Space Station. During a press conference, Hopkins recalls one night he looked out the window. […]
The Trenton City Council will consider an ordinance involving refunding certificates of participation. The council will meet at the Trenton City Hall Monday night May 10, 2021, at 7 o’clock. The meeting will also be live-streamed on Zoom. The City of Trenton is looking to refinance three long-term loans to get lower interest rates and […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Kirksville man sustained serious injuries when the car he drove overturned two miles west of Novinger on Friday morning, May 7. An ambulance transported 32-year-old Agbewonou Sossouvi to the Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville. The car traveled west on Highway 6 before running off the right side of the […]
Next week, the ramps on Interstate 35 in Clinton County at U.S. Route 69 (Exit 48) will close for resurfacing. Crews from Iowa Civil Contracting, Inc., working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, plan to close the ramps on Monday, May 10. Both the northbound and southbound on and off-ramps will close Monday at 7 […]
Utility work will impact traffic on U.S. Route 136 in Harrison County beginning late next week. PAR Electric Company, working under a permit obtained through the Missouri Department of Transportation, will alternate closing the eastbound and westbound lanes of U.S. Route 136 from West 185th Avenue to Route 13 in Bethany in order to replace […]
North Central Missouri College is providing up to three credit hours, tuition paid, for the first 200 new students enrolled in summer coursework for the summer 2021 semester. The promotion is available to new students only and does not include fees associated with the course or enrolling. Funds are from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund II […]
A Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine in southwest Missouri. Stephan D. Samons, 31, of Camdenton, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark to 12 years in federal prison without parole. On Aug. 28, 2019, Samons pleaded guilty to participating in […]
(Missouri Independent) – Lawmakers slammed the Department of Social Services on Thursday for underreporting the number of substantiated cases of abuse and neglect at youth residential facilities during a previous legislative hearing. For nearly an hour-and-a-half on Thursday, the House Special Committee on Government Oversight pressed DSS officials on why the number of findings of […]
As demand for the COVID-19 vaccine has significantly decreased in recent weeks, Governor Mike Parson announced the Missouri National Guard (MONG) has begun scaling back its involvement at mass vaccination site locations in May. The drawdown of National Guard members is set to be completed by June 1, 2021. “We are in a far different […]
During the month of April, GRM Networks kicked off fiber-to-the-premise construction in three rural exchanges. Contractors working on behalf of GRM Networks began fiber construction in the rural exchanges of Bethany and Princeton, while GRM Networks’ own construction department began work in the rural Spickard exchange. “Our employees and board of directors have worked hard […]
A Brookfield man accused of leading law enforcement on a pursuit starting in Linn County and ending at Marshall in February 2020 was sentenced in Linn County on May 5, 2021. Matthew Guilford was sentenced to 15 years with the Missouri Division of Adult Institutions on a case involving felony charges of trafficking drugs—second degree […]
The Livingston County Commission will attend meetings and open bids next week. The commission plans to attend the E911 meeting at the Chillicothe City Hall on May 11, 2021, at 10 o’clock in the morning and the Local Emergency Planning Committee meeting at the Livingston County Health Center of Chillicothe on May 13th at 1 o’clock […]
The University of Missouri Extension and Show-Me Farm Safety recently released a new Together We Can toolkit to help rural Missourians access mental health resources. “Missourians are strong and resilient in the face of the challenges and uncertainty that can come with farm life,” says Marshall Stewart, MU vice chancellor for extension and engagement and […]
Utility work will impact traffic on U.S. Route 136 in Harrison County beginning late next week. PAR Electric Company, working under a permit obtained through the Missouri Department of Transportation, will alternate closing the eastbound and westbound lanes of U.S. Route 136 from West 185th Avenue to Route 13 in Bethany in order to replace […]
The Trenton Police Department reports a Trenton man sustained injuries when he was thrown off a motorcycle after a car struck the bike on Wednesday, May 5. A Trenton woman was issued a summons for careless and imprudent driving. Thirty-three-year-old Anthony Dewayne May was taken by air ambulance to a hospital. Seventy-one-year-old Theresa Mae Cox […]
Trenton R-9 Instructor Jon Guthrie brought the message at the baccalaureate for Trenton High School seniors on May 5th. Guthrie encouraged the graduates to transform the world and said those going to college would have opportunities there to join church and service groups. Guthrie said the graduates would also have opportunities to transform […]
