A Lexington man received serious injuries when he got out of a truck and was hit by the vehicle when the driver accidentally accelerated. Sixty-year-old Ronald Mings, a passenger in the truck, was flown by medical helicopter to Research Hospital in Kansas City. The accident happened Saturday afternoon south of Richmond as the truck was […]
A Bethany man arrested by the Highway Patrol in Harrison County on March 18th at 1:16 in the morning faces four charges. Online court information shows 26-year-old Randall May has been charged with the felonies of driving while intoxicated and endangering the welfare of a child creating substantial risk—first degree—first offense—no sexual contact. He has […]
The Highway Patrol has released updated information on an accident five miles east of Gallatin on March 17th, correcting the names of drivers and occupants. The updated information indicates 77-year-old Gail Siemer of Jamesport was the driver of one pickup truck, and 25-year old Robert Reed was the driver of another pickup. No injuries were […]
A 21-year-old who pleaded guilty to the shooting death of a two-year-old northwest Missouri girl has been sentenced to 26 years in prison. Circuit Judge Daniel Kellogg sentenced Marcain Kimbrough-Ballard of St. Joseph after an emotional hearing in a Buchanan County courtroom. Kimbrough-Ballard, in an earlier court hearing, admitted to firing shots into […]
The Highway Patrol reports two teens sustained minor injuries as the result of a sports utility vehicle overturning east of Carrollton on March 12th. Emergency medical services transported the 16-year-old male driver from Tina and a 15-year-old male passenger from Carrollton to the Carroll County Memorial Hospital. The SUV traveled west on County Road 260 […]
An Osborn man charged with second-degree murder in relation to a motor vehicle accident that caused DeKalb County Sheriff Andy Clark’s death had his case bound over to Division One of DeKalb County Circuit Court on Thursday. An arraignment is scheduled for 35-year-old Gary Wayne Downs on April 9th. Downs was also charged with the […]
A Bethany man was injured in a single-vehicle rollover accident Tuesday evening two miles southwest of Maryville. Twenty-eight-year-old Christopher McCourt refused medical care for minor injuries. McCourt was driving eastbound when his vehicle allegedly failed to make a curve, traveled off the north side of Route V, and overturned on its passenger side. The vehicle […]
The Trenton Police Department released information on March 5th about an incident that happened in the 200 block of East 9th Street on February 13th, around 1 o’clock in the morning, in which a pickup truck hit a building and allegedly left the scene. Sergeant Matt Preston reports the truck driven by 36-year-old Braden Mark […]
Two men from Unionville were among three people taken to the hospital following an accident Sunday afternoon in Schuyler County. Receiving moderate injuries were the truck driver, 38-year-old Donald Hurley, and his passenger, 84-year-old Johnny French, both of Unionville. The driver of another vehicle, an Iowa resident, received minor injuries. All were taken by ambulance […]
Three area teens sustained injuries when a car ran off the road and overturned multiple times 10 miles north of Bethany on Friday night, February 19th. An air ambulance transported passenger 18-year-old Sadie Summa of Bethany to the Truman Medical Center with serious injuries. An ambulance took a 17-year-old female passenger from Eagleville to the […]
A Mexican national was sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing the firearm he used in a drive-by shooting. Javier Guerrero-Garcia, 23, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Greg Kays to eight years and six months in federal prison without parole. On June 29, 2020, Guerrero-Garcia pleaded guilty to being an illegal alien in possession […]
Bipartisan legislation aimed at improving safety on duck boats and other amphibious passenger vessels was unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate on Thursday. It was one of the first bills filed by U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) after he was sworn into office in January 2019. Hawley’s bill is very similar to one filed by former […]
Law enforcement reports an aircraft possibly went down in eastern Grundy County on February 8th. Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Corporal Justin Dunn reports preliminary information from the Federal Aviation Administration indicates a Cessna 177 left Randolph County and was headed to Kirksville. However, there is no indication the aircraft landed in Kirksville. GPS coordinates […]
A passenger in a pickup truck was injured Monday when the driver lost control and the vehicle spun out, coming to a stop in a ditch one mile south of Kidder. The highway patrol listed injuries as serious for 20-year-old Leda Powell of Cameron who was taken by emergency medical services to the Cameron Regional […]
A Polo man was involved in a two-vehicle accident in which two individuals sustained serious injuries one mile east of Lathrop on Sunday afternoon, February 7th. An ambulance transported the driver of a car, 28-year-old Jurell Medina of Kansas City, Missouri, to the Liberty Hospital. Another ambulance transported car passenger 37-year-old Nazareth Viramontes of Kansas […]
Four people were injured, two of them seriously, on Highway 65 in a crash one mile south of Highway 6 Thursday evening. A Princeton man and a Trenton woman, in separate vehicles, were initially taken to Wright Memorial Hospital then flown by medical helicopter to Liberty Hospital. Serious injuries were reported for 29-year-old Daniel Burch […]
A Trenton woman died and three other area residents were injured as the result of a three-vehicle accident four miles east of Jamesport Thursday morning, February 4th. An ambulance transported pickup truck passenger 56-year-old, Valerie Johnson, to Cameron Regional Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead approximately two hours after the crash. The pickup driver, […]
The Highway Patrol reports two men sustained serious injuries when a sports utility vehicle ran off the road and struck a guard rail end four miles south of Pattonsburg Thursday morning, February 4th. The driver, 55-year-old Lewis Buckner of Ridgeway, and passenger, 68-year-old Orvis Fountain of Albany, were transported by ambulance to the Harrison County […]
The Highway Patrol reports two North Carolina men sustained minor injuries when a Freightliner slid and ran off the road one mile north of Cameron Thursday morning, February 4th. The driver, 31-year-old Adam Altayeb Mohamed of Durham, North Carolina, and passenger, 29-year-old Sudan Hamdan Gamar of High Point, North Carolina, were transported by ambulance to […]
The Highway Patrol reports two Iowa residents sustained minor injuries after a car began sliding on snow and ran off the road on Interstate 35 at Bethany Thursday morning, February 4th. The Highway Patrol reports driver 19-year-old Trent Simon of Centerville, Iowa, and passenger 25-year-old Kevin Martinez of Des Moines, Iowa were transported by ambulance […]
