Chillicothe Mayor Chuck Haney died Saturday at Hedrick medical center in Chillicothe, he was 81. A funeral mass will be held Tuesday evening at 5:30 at St. Columban’s Catholic Church in Chillicothe with burial in the St. Patrick’s Cemetery in Wheeling. A parish rosary is scheduled for Monday, May 7 at 5:30 at Lindley Funeral […]
Youth from across the nation go on location to Columbia, Mo., this summer for FilmFest 4-H, the national 4-H film festival. Co-produced by Missouri 4-H and the Missouri Film Office, FilmFest 4-H has drawn youth participants from 21 states since its inception. “Companies across all industries use digital media every day,” said Andrea Sporcic, specialist […]
A community fireworks display will be held in Trenton at dusk on the July 3rd with Haley’s Fireworks of Moberly setting off the fireworks in the grassy area north of the Trenton Rock Barn. Diane Lowrey chairs the volunteer committee of community members organizing the event and helping to collect donations to pay for the display. Several […]
Among cases in the Associate Division of Grundy County Circuit Court Tuesday Darrell Wayne Graham of Trenton provided a written waiver for the preliminary hearing on felony charges of first-degree child molestation. Graham’s Bond was re-set at $100,000 and his case was bound over to the March 15th docket for Division One of Grundy County Circuit Court. […]
Livingston County Sheriff Steve Cox credits the departments’ law enforcement K-9 with running after a prisoner who fled on foot while at the sheriff’s office in Chillicothe, but stopped once he saw the dog in action. 20-year-old Jeremiah Joel Bailiff of St. Louis was being finger-printed when the alleged escape from custody occurred. Bailiff had been arrested following […]
Sentencing was held yesterday in Grundy County Circuit Court for a Trenton man who pleaded guilty in May to three felony counts. Samuel Jacob Southers was sentenced to 15 years in prison on each of two drug-related charges and to four years for unlawful use of a weapon. The terms are concurrent with each other. […]
Grundy County circuit court saw a fairly light case load in the latest session. 18-year-old Avery Hietpas of Trenton waived a preliminary hearing and was bound over to Division one of Grundy County circuit court on a charge accusing possession of a controlled substance. A charge accusing Hietpas with failure to display license plates was […]
It was a busy day in the latest session of Grundy County circuit court. 46-year-old Kimberly Maxwell of Trenton waived a preliminary hearing and was bound over to Division One of circuit court on charges accusing her of unlawful use of a firearm, armed criminal action, second-degree assault on Tyler King, and stealing a handgun belonging […]
18-year-old Jeffrey Corbin of Trenton pleaded guilty to driving while revoked or suspended and was sentenced to 13 days in the Grundy County Detention Center, given credit for serving those days, and was required to pay $116 in court costs. Corbin also pleaded guilty to another count of driving while suspended or revoked and an […]
Grundy County Coroner Dewayne Slater says an initial, or preliminary autopsy report, is inconclusive regarding the deaths of a Trenton woman and her young daughter over the weekend at Trenton. Slater said officials will await the results of toxicology tests. He noted it may take at least two months before toxicology results become available for […]
It was a busy day in Division One of Grundy County circuit court. 60-year old David Owen, with addresses listed at Springfield, Missouri and Hot Springs, South Dakota, pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated/aggravated offender. Owen was sentenced to seven years in prison, although Judge Jack peace retains jurisdiction for 120 days. 47-year old Donna […]
In the Associate Division of Grundy County Circuit Court, 41-year old Toby Street of Trenton has waived a preliminary hearing and was bound over to Division 1 of Circuit Court on charges accusing felony possession of methamphetamine and possessing numerous smoking devices, intended to be used with methamphetamine. A charge accusing Street with misdemeanor passing […]
(St. Joseph News-Press) – One of the two men accused and convicted in the stabbing death of Richard Berry last April now faces a charge of attempted escape from prison. Sean Liechti, 25, who was convicted in Berry’s death on a county bridge over the Third Fork of the Platte River, was allegedly joined in […]
(St. Joseph News Press) – Testimony in a bond hearing Wednesday revealed an ongoing criminal investigation against an Amish man charged with poisoning his own wife. Samuel Borntreger appeared in a Harrison County courtroom Wednesday on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Anna Yoder Borntreger, in 2006. Authorities raised the […]
