With the National Weather Service in Kansas City predicting snow, sleet, and freezing rain through Thursday, the Winter Weather Advisory that was issued for many counties in northern Missouri has been extended. The current forecast for northern Missouri is calling for areas of freezing drizzle and freezing rain continuing to expand back to the north […]
Light freezing rain and drizzle will overspread the region Tuesday and continue through the morning hours on Wednesday. Although precipitation is expected to remain light in nature, ice accumulations of up to a tenth of an inch will be possible in the immediate Kansas City area, with slightly higher amounts possible across north-central and northeastern […]
Dangerously cold wind chills are expected this week as arctic high-pressure building south into the lower Missouri Valley will bring the coldest airmass of the season with dangerously cold wind chills expected both Wednesday and Thursday mornings. A Wind Chill Watch will be in effect from Tuesday evening at 6:00 pm through Thursday morning at […]
There’s bipartisan support in the state legislature to focus on shifting the criminal justice system away from mass incarceration. Freshman Republican Representative Louis Riggs of northeast Missouri’s Hannibal says he’s looking forward to GOP Governor Parson’s leadership on the issue. Riggs of Hannibal says alternatives to incarceration are important. Riggs sits […]
Residents of Carrollton and Warrensburg were hurt early Friday afternoon when a car overturned in northeastern Carroll County. The highway patrol reports 34-year-old Sandra Taylor of Carrollton sustained moderate injuries and 17-year-old Treasur Overturf of Warrensburg received minor injuries with both taken to Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe. They were passengers in a car driven […]
One person was killed in a two-vehicle crash last night five miles east of Milan. Seventy-one-year-old Kenneth Morris of Milan was pronounced dead at the scene by the Deputy Coroner, Robert Wyant. The accident also left a Kirksville man, 35-year-old Fiston Muenyi, with minor injuries. He was taken by ambulance to Northeast Regional Medical Center […]
One person was killed and two others injured in a Clinton County collision Monday night three miles east of Lathrop. Seventy-nine-year-old Leonard Vanderpool of Cowgill was pronounced dead at the scene. Three people from Cameron in another vehicle were taken by two emergency medical service units to Liberty Hospital. Fifty-eight-year-old Fang Ming and 16-year-old Anna […]
Mother Nature just seems to want to remind us of who is in charge as most of the Winter weather has been fairly moderate. She is throwing another round of wintery weather at northern Missouri, along the Iowa border, on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM TUESDAY, […]
The Newtown-Harris R-3 Board of Education approved Linda Hague as a foster care liaison at a meeting this week. Principal Dustin Freeman reported the Professional Learning Committee met with the Northeast Regional Professional Development Center Representative Lori Ladwig to plan second-semester curriculum goals and meeting dates. Missouri Assessment Program and End of Course exam scores […]
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reports 28 more deer from 11 Missouri counties have been found to have chronic wasting disease (CWD). This brings the number of cases of the deadly deer disease in Missouri to 103 since 2012. CWD is a deadly illness in white-tailed deer and other members of the deer family, […]
Missouri Governor Mike Parson announced Wednesday appointments to various commissions and offices. Those appointments included Randy Huffman of rural Galt as the Sullivan County Western District Commissioner. Huffman replaces Danny Busick who resigned from the commissioner position and was to be sworn in today (Wednesday) as the Second District State Representative for Mercer, Sullivan, and […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Grant City man sustained minor injuries when the van he drove overturned two miles east of Sheridan just before noon Tuesday and was later arrested. Thirty-year-old David Baca refused treatment of minor injuries at the scene. Baca traveled east on Highway 46 before the van ran off the south side […]
Local county officials continue to push back against any effort on the state level to transfer maintenance of roads to them. Opposition to any transfer of the “lettered roads” to local governments is reflected in unbending comments by Randolph County Commissioner Wayne Wilcox in northeast Missouri. Wilcox says handing over those roadways to […]
State Auditor Nicole Galloway has released a regularly-scheduled audit of Adair County, located in northeast Missouri. The report received an overall rating of “good”; a previous audit of the county released in 2015 received an overall rating of “fair”. “Audits can serve as useful tools to assist public officials in identifying ways to improve government […]
One teenager was killed and another was seriously hurt when a car went off a road in far northeast Missouri, striking a tree, and overturning. Fatally injured was the driver, 18-year-old Damon Krogmeier of Kahoka. A passenger, 18-year-old Logan Claiborne, also of Kahoka, was taken to Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Illinois with serious injuries. The […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Kirksville resident sustained minor injuries when a car overturned one mile south of Kirksville last (Thursday) night. An ambulance transported 18 year old Grant Woods to the Northeast Regional Medical Center of Kirksville. He traveled south on Business U. S. Highway 63 when the vehicle he drove ran off the […]
State Representative Jim Hansen of northeast Missouri’s Frankford plans to ask the legislature to pass a total ban on texting while driving. Missouri is one of the only states in the country without a total ban on texting while driving. Hansen hopes his proposed ban on texting while driving will get some traction […]
A Unionville man was injured early this morning when the pickup he was driving ran off a highway in southeastern Putnam County. Sixty-year-old Calvin McCree was taken to Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville with minor injuries. McCree was northbound when the pickup left Highway 149, traveled through a fence and came to a stop […]
A Mercer County native has won the Agriculture Educator Lifetime Achievement Award at the Missouri Livestock Symposium. University of Missouri Extension writer Duane Dailey of Columbia received the award, which honors an educator making significant contributions to agriculture in northeastern Missouri. Dailey says he “taught through the media” for 57 years and writes science stories […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Green City woman sustained moderate injuries when a car struck a semi-truck head-on five miles north of Green City Tuesday afternoon. A private vehicle transported 58-year-old Patricia Rouse to the Northeast Regional Medical Center of Kirksville. Rouse traveled south on Highway 129 when the car she drove reportedly crossed the […]
