Colonel Sandra K. Karsten, the superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, announces Missouri’s Blue Alert System is now operational. Senate Bill 34, signed by Gov. Eric Greitens on July 6, becomes effective on Monday, August 28, and called for the creation of the Blue Alert System in Missouri. “Blue Alert is an important program […]
The total number of properties to be offered for sale at the annual Grundy County Delinquent Tax Sale has decreased. As of this Friday morning, Collector-Treasurer Barbara Harris reported 139 properties are scheduled to be sold at the Grundy County Courthouse Monday, August 28 at 10 o’clock. Of the remaining properties, Madison Township has 63 […]
The funeral service for 20-year-old Trey Shaw will be at the Union Coon Creek Baptist Church west of Trenton Monday morning at 11 o’clock with burial in Coon Creek Cemetery. Visitation is at the First Baptist Church in Trenton Saturday evening from 5 to 7 o’clock. Survivors for Trey Shaw include his father and step-mother […]
Proposed fiscal year budgets for the city of Trenton and the municipal utilities are on the agenda for the next meeting of the Trenton City Council. The budgets, presented in the form of ordinances, will be presented to the council after several meetings involving the finance and utility committees. The ordinances include setting employee and officer […]
There have been as many as a dozen grass fires since Friday in which the Grundy County Rural Fire Protection District has responded to. A burn ban advisory continues for the rural areas of Grundy County and a burn ban is in place for the city of Trenton. Both are continuing until further notice because […]
Keith Warren, a 50-year-old resident of Trenton, MO, passed away at 7:03 PM on Thursday, December 1, 2016, at St Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, MO. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, December 5, 2016, at the First Christian Church in Trenton. A scheduled visitation will be held from 5 to […]
A Milan teen was injured Monday night, according to the Highway Patrol, when the car he was driving swerved to avoid a deer on Sullivan County Route E. The car traveled off the road and overturned causing 16-year-old William Turpin to receive minor injuries. He was transported by an ambulance to Sullivan County Memorial Hospital of […]
The Chillicothe Street Department plans to close a portion of Polk Street on Monday morning to smooth the ends of a new bridge in eastern Chililcothe. The project includes milling and adding hot mix to smooth the ends of the bridge caused by the settling of dirt under the bridge approaches. The street closure goes […]
A Meadville woman has been arrested on a Grundy County warrant. Thirty-one year old Dorothy Kathryn Archuleta is charged with possession of a controlled substance, identified as methamphetamine, on May 24th. Bond is $15,000 cash, with the defendant to appear in the Associate Division of Grundy County Circuit Court on Tuesday, September 13th. Thirty-year […]
An accident in eastern Putnam County at 6:30 Monday evening injured a woman from Worthington, Missouri when there was a collision involving a car and farm tractor at a bridge five miles to the southwest of Livonia. The highway patrol reports 52-year-old Thersa Steiser of Worthington was flown by medical helicopter to Methodist Hospital in Des […]
Sentencing was yesterday afternoon at the Courthouse in Bethany for a man accused of poisoning his wife nearly ten years ago when they lived in Harrison County. Samuel Borntreger was sentenced to 25 years in prison on charges of second-degree murder. He had pleaded guilty June 21st in Division One of the Harrison County Circuit […]
The jury returned a verdict of guilty against Adam Baker Thursday in the shooting death of his 26-year-old wife Holly Baker in a trial that began Monday, July 11. The Cameron man was convicted of Second Degree Murder and armed criminal action in a trial that lasted just four days in the death of his […]
At a special meeting Monday morning, the Trenton R-9 Board of Education financially closed-out the fiscal year that ends Thursday June 30th; and adopted a new budget for the fiscal year that begins Friday, July 1st. School officials and board members anticipated both the current and future budgets to have deficit spending due to capital projects being funded. […]
Under sunny skies, light winds, birds chirping, and approximately 75 people watching, VFW Post 919 at Trenton conducted a flag raising ceremony and rifle salute Monday morning, Memorial Day, to officially open up the Grundy County Museum properties for this season. While VFW members were hoisting the U.S. flag out in front of the Baker one-room school, […]
The General John J. Pershing Boyhood Home State Historic Site hosts a Memorial Day program on Monday afternoon at 1:30. Author Mark Armato will give the address, Brookfield VFW Post 4557 will present the colors and do a rifle salute, and American Legion Post 197 of Laclede will be in charge of the wreath laying. […]
PATTONSBURG, Mo. (AP) — Police say bones found in a field in Daviess County earlier this week are believed to be those of a man who disappeared after stealing a Kansas City police car in 2014. A farmer found the remains Monday near Pattonsburg. A shotgun stolen from the police car was nearby. The Kansas […]
The Trenton Bulldogs claimed three singles victories in tense 9-7 finals, part of a 6-3 varsity tennis victory on Monday afternoon at Chariton High School in Chariton, Iowa. Bryce Whitney, Creed Houghton, and Wyatt Neal took the 9-7 wins, with #1 singles player Jacob Davis cruising to an 8-love win, while #2 entry Nick Shields […]
Trenton golfed well on its home course on Monday afternoon, finally seeing the winds of the first week of April subside, and using the improved conditions at Riverside Country Club to shoot a score of 161, easily defeating the tallies of visitors Putnam County (225) and Princeton (226). All five of Trenton’s individual scores were […]
HOUSTON (AP) After what happened in his first start this season,Collin McHugh felt much better when he got through the first inning on Monday night. “I was focused on getting through that first inning today,” McHugh said. “Once we got through that it was just kind of just go after them the rest of the […]
ST. LOUIS (AP) Michael Wacha allowed four hits in six scoreless innings and the St. Louis Cardinals had 10 extra-base hits Monday in routing the Milwaukee Brewers 10-1 in their home opener. Jeremy Hazelbaker was 4 for 4 with a triple, double and sacrifice fly, lifting his average to .526, and fellow rookie Almedys Diaz […]
