Carroll County Memorial Hospital announces the launch of a toll-free Medicare Insurance helpline, which is designed to help Medicare beneficiaries receive education about Medicare and select a health plan that fits their needs and budget, while also retaining their existing hospital and doctors. The free helpline connects callers with licensed agents who can assist in […]
The state’s lieutenant governor says Missourians will have to decide whether a gasoline tax increase is needed. Missouri’s 17-cent gasoline tax has remained the same since 1996. Last November, voters rejected a proposed ten-cent gas tax increase. At his campaign announcement, last week at Jefferson City’s Memorial Park, Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe (R) told the audience […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Marceline woman sustained moderate injuries when the sport utility vehicle she drove struck a Freightliner truck in Linn County on Thursday afternoon. An ambulance transported Darien Bloomfield to Pershing Memorial Hospital of Brookfield. Truck driver 73 year old Gary Frenzel of Shubert, Nebraska was reported as not injured. The SUV […]
Only six days remain in the exhibit season for the Grundy County Museum in Trenton. This year’s featured exhibit is “Chairs: The Stories They Could Tell.” The exhibit displays chairs associated with Grundy County families and businesses. Museum visitors can sit on a stool from the Maid-Rite restaurant and see a piano stool from the […]
Representatives from Missouri State Parks invite the public to an informational meeting about General John J. Pershing Boyhood Home and Locust Creek Covered Bridge State Historic Sites at 6 p.m., Wednesday, October 16, 2019m, at the Pershing Memorial Museum and Leadership Archives building at 900 Ausmus St., Laclede. Representatives from the sites will be on […]
A Linn County crash on Wednesday night one mile east of the Marceline Junction injured a truck driver from Cameron. Sixty six-year-old Robert Ellison received minor injuries and was taken by an ambulance to Pershing Memorial Hospital. Ellison was driving a Freightliner truck eastbound when it traveled off the right side of Highway 36 and went […]
Missouri Day organizers say no other family embodies the theme of the 2019 Missouri Day Festival like Dr. Paul and Barbara Cox and Dr. Andy and Holly Cox and their family. “Missouri Day – Embracing the Past, Looking to the Future” is the theme and the Cox family certainly mirrors this theme. Tracing back to […]
Reports indicate the former Chief Executive Officer at Putnam County Memorial Hospital in Unionville, David Byrns has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Charges were filed with the US District Court for Western Missouri, however, it is expected further proceedings will be held in a federal […]
Kaycee West, a patient access representative at Wright Memorial Hospital, was honored as the hospital’s Employee of the Quarter for the third quarter of 2019. Steve Schieber, Chief Executive Officer, presented the award to West at a ceremony held in her honor on September 30. The Employee of the Quarter Award recognizes an employee who […]
The Highway Patrol reports three Salisbury teens sustained minor injuries when a car ran off a bridge and landed in a creek three miles southwest of Marceline early Saturday morning at approximately 1:40 am. The driver 17-year-old Alyssa Johnson and passengers 18-year-old Kassie Johnson and 17-year-old Brittney Tweedy were transported by ambulance to Pershing Memorial […]
A Sullivan County rollover accident Tuesday night has injured a Unionville resident. Thirty-six-year-old Sarah Robbins was taken by ambulance to Sullivan County Memorial Hospital in Milan with moderate injuries. Robbins failed to halt the car at an intersection of Routes B and N, three miles north of Green City. The southbound car traveled off the […]
The Trenton Rotary Club continues the tradition of displaying the United States and Missouri State flags during the Missouri Day Festival weekend. Flags will once again be on display along 9th Street, Main Street, Oklahoma Avenue and 17th Street leading up to the parade routes and throughout the Festival grounds. Flags are available for sponsorship […]
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft acknowledged the proclamation at a ceremony at the St. Louis Soldiers Memorial Museum. The legislation was co-sponsored by Annapolis Representative Chris Dinkins, whose grandfather was a prisoner of war in World War Two. The designation is an effort to continue to remember and pursue the […]
A man from Avon, Illinois died as the result of a Mack truck overturning one half mile south of Meadville on Friday night. The Patrol reports an ambulance transported 61-year-old William Simmons to Pershing Memorial Hospital of Brookfield where he was pronounced dead approximately one hour after the crash. The big rig traveled east on […]
A Galt teenager sustained injuries when the car she drove was reportedly struck by another vehicle two miles west of Galt on Friday morning. The Patrol reports an ambulance transported 18-year-old Danielle Whitcher to Wright Memorial Hospital of Trenton with minor injuries. The car traveled west on Highway 6 before it was allegedly struck in […]
Stratis Health announced eight critical access hospital (CAH) staff who will serve as national Virtual Quality Improvement Mentors through a new initiative that aims to broadly transfer knowledge from leading CAH quality improvement staff to others across the country. The initiative is organized through Rural Quality Improvement Technical Assistance (RQITA), a program of Stratis Health […]
A teenager from Liberty was injured Thursday afternoon when he drove off Highway 11 in Linn County resulting in the vehicle overturning and striking a utility pole six miles north of Saint Catherine. Nineteen-year-old Jacob Kane was taken by emergency medical services to the Pershing Memorial Hospital in Brookfield with moderate injuries. The sports utility […]
A Book and Gift Fair will be held at the Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton on Friday, September 19, 2019, as a fundraiser for the Wright Memorial Hospital Auxiliary. The event will be held in the Hospital Education Center from 8 until 3 o’clock. There will be cookbooks, inspirational, fiction and non-fiction books, items for […]
A tractor cruise will kick-off activities for Calamity Jane Days in Princeton this weekend. The name has been changed for Friday’s all-day event to the Danny Hagan Memorial Tractor Cruise. Spokesperson Duane Place says Hagan and his wife were “instrumental” in planning the cruise each year. Brenda was Danny’s wife who still helps with planning. […]
Four people, including a child, sustained minor injuries Wednesday evening in an accident in rural Ray County. A vehicle driven by 29-year-old Cody Laws of Bucklin crested a hill while another vehicle was attempting to make a U-turn. The collision involved the front of the first vehicle hitting the passenger side of the second one. […]
