The Trenton Convention and Visitors Bureau discussed a proposed budget on February 10th. It includes $20,000 for digital marketing, such as branding, a website, social media, and online advertising. It also includes $4,000 for print marketing, such as papers, magazines, and billboards. A subcommittee of Vice President Micah Landes, Treasurer Jordan Ferguson, and Member Megan […]
North Central Missouri College nursing students and staff are assisting with COVID-19 vaccination clinics. Students and staff have helped or plan to help at clinics in Bethany, Albany, Maryville, Savannah, and Saint Joseph. The students and staff have helped distribute thousands of vaccines to Missourians so far. Nursing Instructor Ashtyn Wilson says the nursing department […]
A proposed fuel tax increase could come with a rebate option for drivers who fill up in Missouri. State Representative Becky Ruth, R-Festus, has filed legislation that would increase the fee by two cents annually for five years to help to pay for Missouri’s underfunded highway system. She tells Missourinet if drivers turn in their […]
Chillicothe police were dispatched to a disturbance in the 1000 block of South Washington Street on Saturday night and, according to Sergeant Curtis Hays, arrested a male for domestic assault. The individual was taken to the Daviess-DeKalb Regional Jail pending the filing of formal charges. No name was released at the time of the arrest.
Trenton Middle School has announced the February Students of the Month for the character trait honesty. Those selected are fifth-graders Lillee Dalrymple and Malachi Kottwitz, sixth-graders Taeghyn Yerington and Dillon Hunter, seventh-graders Shelby Romesburg and James Chamberlain, and eighth-graders Jena Hunter and Trusten Streett.
The Highway Patrol reports the arrest of two Cameron residents Thursday evening, February 4th. Seventeen-year-old Kyson Blackburn was arrested in DeKalb County. Online court information shows he has been charged with the felonies of possession of a controlled substance except 35 grams or less of marijuana or synthetic cannabinoid and delivery of a controlled substance […]
The Highway Patrol reports two men sustained serious injuries when a sports utility vehicle ran off the road and struck a guard rail end four miles south of Pattonsburg Thursday morning, February 4th. The driver, 55-year-old Lewis Buckner of Ridgeway, and passenger, 68-year-old Orvis Fountain of Albany, were transported by ambulance to the Harrison County […]
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced that his office, along with 22 other state Attorneys General, filed an amicus brief in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Corlett in the United States Supreme Court. The brief, led by Missouri and Arizona, argues that permitting law-abiding citizens to carry firearms in self-defense outside the […]
A Hamilton man charged with second-degree murder after a traffic stop in Jamesport in October waived formal arraignment and entered a plea of not guilty on February 1st. Thirty-seven-year-old Frank Randall Allen Bostic’s motion for change of venue was sustained, and the case was transferred from Caldwell County to DeKalb County. The case was continued […]
A northwest Missouri teenager is in jail after the Highway Patrol accused him of drunk driving contributing to an accident that has claimed the life of another teen. The crash occurred at 11:40 Sunday night just north of the community of DeKalb in rural Buchanan County. The highway patrol identified the deceased as 18-year-old Cassandra […]
The Missouri Senate could debate this week a wide-ranging education package. Senate Bill 55, sponsored by Republican Cindy O’Laughlin of northeast Missouri’s Shelbina, is a controversial measure that could change the landscape of K-12 public education. The plan could expand charter schools to any Missouri city with a population greater than 30,000 people. […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Denver, Missouri teen sustained moderate injuries when she failed to negotiate a curve two miles east of Albany on Thursday morning, January 28th. An ambulance transported the 16-year-old to Mosaic Medical Center in Albany. The car traveled west on Highway 136 before running off the south side of the road, […]
An indictment was unsealed charging 11 individuals on a 136-count federal indictment including violations of drug conspiracy, drug possession, and drug possession with the intent to distribute, and violations of the dogfighting prohibitions of the federal Animal Welfare Act, and conspiracy to commit the same. The defendants include Jarvis Lockett, 40, of Warner Robins, Georgia; […]
Grundy County’s unemployment rate has risen to four-point four (4.4) percent in December, up from the November rate of two point seven (2.7%). In December, the Missouri Division of Employment Security reported Grundy County had a civilian labor force of 4,361, with the number of unemployed listed at 191. That compares to 118 unemployed in […]
An assistant principal at Nixa Junior High School in Nixa, Missouri, was charged in federal court with the sexual exploitation of a child for the purpose of producing child pornography. Colby Fronterhouse, 41, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Springfield, Mo., with one count of producing child pornography. […]
The Gallatin Board of Aldermen on Monday evening, January 25th approved two ordinances authorizing engineering service contract agreements. City Clerk Hattie Rains reports one with Finley Engineering Company involves upgrading the 2400 electrical system. The other agreement is for electric cost of service and standard rate design with Toth and Associates and involves an electric rate […]
Truman State University alumni Anthony Cooperwood and Jo Ann Daughtery will perform in a live stream jazz event at 7 p.m. February 2 as part of the Kohlenberg Lyceum Series. Cooperwood has spent the last 35 years performing music and entertaining people all over the world. His performances include almost 10 years with Cirque du […]
A former doctor of osteopathic medicine who previously worked at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Beckley, West Virginia, was sentenced for depriving veterans of their civil rights under color of law by sexually abusing them. U.S. District Judge Frank W. Volk sentenced Jonathan Yates, 52, of Bluefield, Virginia, to 300 months in prison and […]
The Highway Patrol reports the arrest of out-of-state residents in Linn and Gentry counties the afternoon of January 24th on multiple allegations. Forty-six-year-old Ruby White of Jacksonville, Illinois was arrested in Linn County. She was accused of speeding, two counts of failure to restrain the child, and misdemeanor possession of fewer than 10 grams of […]
Former President Donald Trump has granted a partial pardon to a former U.S. Congressman from the state of California who lived in Missouri for many years. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, a Republican from the Shelbina and Columbia areas, served in Congress for 14 years until 2005. He resigned after pleading guilty to receiving $2 million in […]
