Arrangements have been set for a Marceline teenager who died Friday from injuries sustained in a traffic accident in Linn County. 17-year-old Maysell E. Crossland was a senior at Marceline high school and is survived by her parents, Richard and Florence Crossland and brother Mason, of the home in Marceline. Visitation will be held from 4 […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Marceline teen died and a Brookfield teen was arrested after a one-vehicle accident five miles east of Purdin Friday night. Seventeen-year-old Alex Coyle of Brookfield traveled north on Route M when the vehicle he drove crossed the center line. He overcorrected, causing the vehicle to run off the right side […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Browning resident died some 12 hours after being injured in a Tuesday evening accident in Meadville. 78-year-old Velma Trentham of Browning died yesterday morning before 6 am at the University Hospital in Columbia. The highway patrol reports Mrs. Trentham, who was driving southbound on Highway 139, attempted to cross Highway […]
Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation shows that deer hunters in Missouri harvested 94,977 deer during the opening weekend of the fall firearms deer season Nov. 11 and 12. That number was a little more than one thousand fewer than the opening weekend of last year. Of this year’s total, 54 thousand were […]
The Chillicothe Police Department remained busy over the last week with a number of calls, some of which we have highlighted. Officers received a report of theft in the 2600 block of North Fair Street and the investigation continues. Officer responded to a report of a domestic disturbance in the 1100 block of Polk […]
The Linn County Republican Women will meet at the Pershing Museum in Laclede later this month. A program will begin the evening of October 19th at 6:30 with the regular meeting to follow. The group’s monthly project is Operation Stars and Stripes.
The Linn County Soil and Water Conservation District will hold a Board of Supervisors election next week. The election will be held at the United States Department of Agriculture office at 121 Pershing Road in Brookfield September 20 from 11 o’clock in the morning to 6 o’clock in the evening. Customer appreciation will also be held […]
The Highway Patrol Troop B will conduct driving while intoxicated saturations in Linn County this month. Commanding Officer Captain James Wilt says special enforcement operations, such as DWI saturations, enable the Patrol to enhance its efforts in removing impaired drivers from the roads. He adds that driving while impaired continues to be a major contributing […]
“Making the best better” for generations of Missouri 4-H club members, 46 volunteers joined the Missouri 4-H Hall of Fame on Aug. 19 at State Fair Community College in Sedalia. Inductees from 37 counties established a legacy totaling 1,085 years of volunteer service to Missouri 4-H, said Rachel Augustine, Missouri 4-H Foundation director. More than […]
A Mississippi truck driver was injured Wednesday morning in a roll over accident that occurred on Highway 36 in Linn County. The highway patrol reports 27-year-old Kendrick Hinton of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi was taken by ambulance to the Pershing Memorial Hospital in Brookfield with moderate injuries. The accident report noted Hinton was eastbound a […]
The Highway Patrol reports the arrest of a Bucklin woman in Linn County Wednesday afternoon. The Patrol accused 49-year-old Gina Dowell of driving while intoxicated with drugs, careless and imprudent driving involving an accident, and no insurance. She was transported to Linn County and then released.
Routine bridge maintenance will reduce westbound U.S. Route 36 in Linn County to one lane beginning August 7. Local maintenance crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation will close one lane of westbound U.S. Route 36 at the Locust Creek Overflow Bridge approximately one mile west of the Pershing Park exit beginning at 8 a.m. […]
The Highway Patrol reports a motorcycle and a sports utility vehicle overturned in separate accidents Friday night. In an accident two miles north of Purdin, a Brookfield man sustained serious injuries. Twenty-seven-year-old Tyrel Treat traveled on Missouri 5 northbound when his motorcycle ran off the right side of the road before it overturned and ejected […]
The Linn County Soil and Water Conservation District’s annual cost share sign up will start next month. The sign-up for the fiscal year 2019 will run from August 1st through August 31st. Summer construction practices will have higher priority than other practices as long as they meet eligibility requirements. Those unable to be present for […]
The Missouri 4-H Foundation will induct 46 4-H volunteers into the Missouri 4-H Hall of Fame next month several of which are from the area. The induction ceremony will be held at the Fred E. Davis Multipurpose Center on the State Fair Community College campus in Sedalia the afternoon of August 19 at 3 o’clock. […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Brookfield man was arrested as a result of an investigation of the officer-involved shooting in Brookfield July 2. Thirty-nine-year-old Jason Buckallew was arrested on a Linn County felony warrant for the charges of first-degree assault, serious physical injury or special victim, and armed criminal action. Buckallew was released on his […]
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 […]
Grundy County’s unemployment rate went up slightly during May when compared to April. The latest information from the division of employment security shows the Grundy County rate at three point nine percent last month. That’s based on 190 persons unemployed out of a civilian labor force of nearly 49 hundred in Grundy County. The three […]
The Highway Patrol reports two individuals died and three three others sustained serious injuries as the result of a three-vehicle accident half a mile north of Marceline Friday morning. A car driven by forty-seven-year-old Shauna Gauthier of Bucklin crested a hill on southbound Missouri 5 when she crossed the center line, struck a vehicle driven […]
The Highway Patrol reports three Sedalia residents sustained minor injuries when their vehicle overturned in Linn County Friday evening. Sixty-seven-year-old James Deignan drove north on Missouri 5 when his pickup truck ran off the road and overturned about two miles north of Purdin, causing extensive damage to the vehicle. The driver and his two grandchildren, […]
