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Services: Edward Evans

A funeral service for rural Princeton resident Edward Evans will be on April 15th at 10:30 in the morning at the Modena Christian Church. Burial will follow in the Salem Cemetery at Mill Grove. Visitation is on April 14th from 6 to 7 o’clock in the evening at the Slater Neal Funeral Home of Trenton. […]

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Young hunters take 2,881 turkeys over youth weekend

Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation shows that young turkey hunters in Missouri harvested 2,881 birds over the past youth weekend, April 9 and 10. The top harvest counties were Miller with 87 birds harvested, Osage with 71, and Franklin with 71. Young hunters checked 2,795 turkeys during the 2021 spring youth weekend. […]

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Five arrested by Trenton and Grundy County authorities

The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest on April 6th of a Trenton man who allegedly broke in and stole items from a business in February. Two Spickard residents were also arrested on April 6th. Forty-eight-year-old Oliver Eugene Vandevender has been charged with the felonies of second-degree burglary, stealing $750 or more, and first-degree […]

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China Garden Buffet in Chillicothe destroyed by fire

A Chillicothe business was destroyed by fire on Tuesday. Firefighters responded to the China Garden Buffet Restaurant at 1023 South Washington. Flames were visible inside the business as firefighters arrived. While en route, Chillicothe dispatch advised everyone inside the restaurant had been evacuated. At approximately 4:40 pm Tuesday, firefighters found heavy smoke and flames coming […]

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Patrol reports the arrest of a woman from Indiana

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports the arrest of a Frankfort, Indiana resident, Twenty-nine-year-old Maranda Rice was arrested Sunday morning in Ray County and accused of felony possession of the controlled substance THC, misdemeanor possession of marijuana, and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia. Rice was transported to the Ray County Jail.

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Bethany man killed in crash on Highway 69

A Bethany man was killed in an early morning traffic crash on Highway 69, just north of Bethany. Thirty-nine-year-old Jason Crawford was pronounced dead at the scene by Harrison County Coroner Zack Wilson. A trooper reported the car Crawford was driving failed to negotiate a curve, traveled off the west side of Highway 69, and […]

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Pattonsburg man arrested by Missouri State Highway Patrol

A man from Pattonsburg was arrested Monday morning in Daviess County. Fifty-three-year-old Charles Kirch has been accused of felony leaving the scene of a crash along with alleged careless and imprudent driving. Kirch also is accused of driving without a valid license, failure to display valid vehicle registration, and no proof of insurance. The highway […]