According to a Trenton Area Chamber of Commerce official, there are apparently no plans in the immediate future to move the high school marching band festival that Trenton has hosted for 20 years. Chamber President Debbie Carman said she has spoken to a Trenton marching festival director, plus at least four officials in Kirksville, each […]
The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission will hold its monthly meeting at 9 am Wednesday, October 4th in Kirksville. The meeting will be held in the Student Union at Truman State University and is expected to last around 3 hours. The public is invited to attend. Presentations have been scheduled by representatives from the City of […]
The Kirksville Fire Department and the Adair County Ambulance District will help promote child passenger safety with the Northeast Missouri Alliance for Passenger Education and Safety Saturday. They will be at the Kirksville Motor Company at 3607 North Baltimore Street in Kirksville from 11 o’clock that morning to 2 o’clock that afternoon. Certified Child Passenger […]
A Kirksville, Mo., man has pleaded guilty in federal court to embezzling more than $380,000 from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in Columbia, Mo. Burt Louis Beard, 62, of Kirksville, waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Willie J. Epps on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2017, to a federal […]
The Missouri Alliance for Historic Preservation announced its 2017 list of Historic Places in Peril at a special “Unhappy Hour” event at the National Building Arts Center, located in Sauget, Illinois just across the Mississippi River from downtown St. Louis. Seven new endangered historic places were named to the list for 2017 and six were […]
More than 40 citizens from North Missouri attended the Missouri House of Representatives Policy Development Caucus’s town hall meeting in Kirksville Tuesday morning. The caucus held the meeting to seek input on transportation funding issues and to hear thoughts on how the state could generate revenue for its roads and bridges. Chairman of the Policy […]
The Missouri Department of Conservation will host an open house in Kirksville to share information and gather public feedback. MDC Director Sara Parker Pauley will attend and share insights on the department’s history, conservation priorities, and challenges on the horizon at the open house at the Northeast Regional Office at 3500 South Baltimore the night […]
A town hall meeting to discuss transportation funding will be held at the Adair County Annex in Kirksville next week. Third District State Representative Nate Walker encourages anyone from the listening area to attend the town hall meeting August 1 from 8 to 10 o’clock in the morning. He adds that unless the governor calls […]
The Highway Patrol reports two children from Kirksville sustained injuries when they were ejected from an all terrain vehicle Friday evening. Eleven-year-old Lane Rongey drove the ATV eastbound on Spencer Lane one mile southeast of Kirksville when it overturned and ejected he and his passenger, 10-year-old Tristin Sherwood. An air ambulance transported Rongey to the […]
The Missouri Department of Conservation reports Bowen Dockery of Greentop became the most recent record-breaking angler in Missouri when he caught a green sunfish on a private pond in Schuyler County. The new “alternative method” record fish caught by Dockery on July 5 weighed 1 pound, 3 ounces. Dockery’s recent catch broke the previous state […]
The highway patrol reports two people were flown to a Columbia hospital after a single vehicle, rollover, accident Sunday afternoon in Green City. The highway patrol reports an eastbound vehicle traveled off Highway 6 and overturned. Taken to University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia were the driver 29-year-old Omar Morales Almestica of Milan and a passenger, […]
A Marceline resident, 21-year-old Zachary Yarnell, was injured late last night when his vehicle swerved to avoid a deer but went off Highway 11 and struck a tree. Yarnell was taken by ambulance to Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville with minor injuries. He was wearing a seat belt in an accident just before midnight Tuesday […]
Captain Katy Modlin a native of Kirksville recently received her diploma from the William Beaumont Army Medical Center at Fort Bliss. Modlin completed a three to five-year residency requirement or internship. Graduate Medical Education Programs at William Beaumont Army Medical Cente include internal medicine residency and internship, orthopedic surgery residency and internship, general surgery residency […]
The Statewide Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics Missouri starts this week. Law enforcement officers from around the state will run with the torch on multiple routes Monday through June 2nd to raise awareness for Special Olympics Missouri and the State Summer Games. The Northwest Region 1 torch run will go from the Trenton […]
A Green City resident was injured early Monday evening when the car he was driving went off Highway 6 and struck a ditch. The highway patrol said 83-year-old Elton Yardley had suffered a medical condition when the accident happened and was taken to Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville with moderate injuries. The westbound car […]
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of four men Wednesday on unrelated charges. Nineteen-year-old Colby Weaver of Trenton was arrested on the felony charge of first-degree sexual abuse. His bond is $25,000 cash only, and he is scheduled for the associate division of circuit court May 9th. Weaver was already in custody in […]
A 43-year-old Kirksville woman died at a hospital Monday night after being injured in a single vehicle, rollover accident earlier in the evening in rural Macon County. Priscilla Weeks was driving southbound when her car crossed the center line of Highway 3 as she swerved to avoid oncoming traffic, then traveled off the right side of […]
A Unionville, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing child pornography. Joel R. Bremer, 51, of Unionville, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark to 18 years in federal prison without parole. The court also sentenced Bremer to supervised release for the rest of his life following incarceration. On June 10, […]
A Gallatin resident was hurt in a four-vehicle accident Saturday afternoon three miles west of Gallatin on Route CC. One of the drivers, 20-year-old Wyatt Owings of Gallatin, was taken to Cameron Regional Medical Center with moderate injuries. Owings was the only person reported hurt. All of the vehicles were eastbound on highway 6 when […]
Payless ShoeSource stores in Chillicothe, Kirksville, and Maryville are three of the nearly 400 stores to be closed. The stores at Southtown Shopping Center in Chillicothe, Hastings Plaza in Kirksville, and Maryville Shopping Center will close due to Payless’s chapter 11 bankruptcy filing and restructuring in North America. The company is also restructuring its Hong […]
