Grundy County’s unemployment rate in the first quarter of this year has remained steady at three and a half percent. The March rate, the latest month available from the state, shows Grundy County had 165 individuals on unemployment. The civilian labor force was listed as 4,707. The Grundy County unemployment rate in February was three […]
UPDATE: As of 9:10 Friday morning, the Brookfield Police Department is reporting that Owen Boley has been found safe. —————————————————– The Brookfield Police Department is asking for assistance in finding a 13-year-old boy who went missing Thursday night. According to authorities, Owen Boley was last seen at his residence in Brookfield Thursday evening. As of […]
Names have been released of the two individuals who died in what Linn County authorities have labeled a homicide-suicide. Linn County Coroner Kenny Creason identified the male as 61-year-old Douglas Howe and the female as his wife, 58-year-old Rhonda Howe. He noted they had a Wheeling address but resided in western Linn County. A preliminary […]
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 […]
The North Central Missouri College Foundation is honored to announce the naming of a new endowed scholarship. The Mundell Memorial Thank a Farmer Agricultural Scholarship has been established by Brenda (Mundell) Harmon in memory of her late parents, Junius and Lou Mundell, lifelong residents and farmers in Linn County, Missouri. This scholarship will be awarded […]
The Missouri Department of Conservation reports 33 new cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) have been found following the testing of 24,486 free-ranging Missouri deer through its 2017-2018 sampling and testing efforts. The new cases were from the following counties: Adair (3), Cedar (1), Franklin (4), Jefferson (1), Linn (7), Macon (3), Perry (1), Polk (3), […]
A Linn County teenager has pleaded guilty to making a terrorist threat against the Meadville School. The charge is a misdemeanor. Seventeen-year-old Keith Donald Herring of rural Linneus Thursday in the Associate Division of Linn County Circuit Court. Online court information shows, a plea agreement was accepted which led to the suspension of the imposition […]
A planned shoulder improvement project in Linn County is now scheduled to begin April 16. Contractor crews from Capital Paving and Construction, LLC, working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, will improve the shoulders, replace guardrail, and repave the shoulders of the ramps at the Route 5/Route U interchange near Marceline. The shoulder and guardrail […]
The Highway Patrol reports the arrest of a Center, Missouri man Friday morning in Linn County on an out-of-state warrant on multiple counts of fraud. The Patrol’s arrest report shows that 34-year-old James Brothers was arrested on a felony warrant for fugitive from out of state from Calhoun County, Florida on six counts of organized […]
A shoulder improvement project in Linn County is scheduled to begin the week of April 9. Contractor crews from Capital Paving and Construction, LLC, working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, will improve the shoulders, replace guardrail, and repave the shoulders of the ramps at the Route 5/Route U interchange near Marceline. The shoulder and […]
The Linn County Historical Museum Association next week will announce a new project made possible by a Missouri Humanities Council grant. “Reaching Out to Linn County” will be explained at a public meeting at the Thorne Center in Linneus Monday night at 7 o’clock. Books will also be presented to Linn County public schools, libraries, […]
The name of a girl struck and killed by a train in Marceline Monday night has been released. Highway Patrol Troop B Public Information Officer Eric Brown reports nine-year-old Katawna Clay was alone on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks near Lake Street when she was struck by the train around 7:30 Clay was […]
In a story earlier this week, Steve Cox at the Sheriff’s Department in Livingston County was seeking the public’s assistance with the identification of an individual allegedly involved in a residential burglary and vehicle theft. Cox reports today the arrest of a homeless man allegedly involved in those incidents. Cox says an investigation by the Livingston […]
A couple from Linn County received the Missouri Department of Conservation’s first Missouri Leopold Conservation Award. Matt and Kate Lambert received the honor based on their conservation efforts on Uptown Farms. The Lamberts own north-central Missouri farms consisting of 2,000 acres of row crop, hay production, managed Conservation Reserve Program, commercial Red Angus cattle, and […]
Highway Patrol Troop B will conduct special enforcement operations this month. Troopers will conduct a driving while intoxicated saturation across Troop B in February as well as a Click It or Ticket seat belt enforcement operation in Linn and Sullivan counties. Commanding Officer Captain James Wilt says the enforcement operations enable the Patrol to enhance […]
The Missouri Department of Conservation reports 15 free-ranging Missouri deer have tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) out of nearly 18,400 test results received so far for the season. The 15 new cases consist of: 1 from Cedar County from a hunter-harvested adult buck, 3 from Franklin County from hunter-harvested adult bucks, 1 from […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Bucklin man sustained moderate injuries in a one-vehicle accident south of Bucklin Friday morning. Fifty-three-year-old Clifford Wells traveled north on Missouri 129 when his car ran off the right side of the road and struck a fence, causing the car extensive damage. An ambulance transported Wells to Pershing Memorial Hospital […]
The Highway Patrol reports injuries ranged from minor to moderate for six people injured Tuesday evening when two vehicles collided at a Linn County intersection. All were taken by ambulance to Pershing Memorial Hospital. The accident at 6:15 in the evening occurred at the junction of Highway 36 and Missouri Highway 129 one mile south of Bucklin. Involved […]
Dennis Van Dyke of Marceline recently announced his plans to run on the Democratic ticket for Seventh District State Representative next year. Van Dyke stopped by the KTTN studios to introduce himself, and while here, we sat down with him and asked him why he decided to run for State Representative, what his focus would be if […]
A Browning resident has been seriously injured in a traffic accident at an intersection four miles north of Brookfield. The highway patrol said 63-year-old Ricky Moore was taken by ambulance to the Pershing Memorial Hospital in Brookfield. He was a passenger in a car driven by 57-year-old Rita McGhee of Browning. The driver of another […]
