Five Points Alive’s Trenton Downtown Christmas Parade postponed due to inclement weather December 1st has been rescheduled for Friday evening. The line up for the parade will start at Geyer Hall at 5:45, and the parade will begin at 6 o’clock. Five Points Alive member Cindy Jennings says the parade route will travel down Main […]
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Sam Graves announces nominations to United States military academies
Representative Sam Graves, has announced the United States Military Service Academy nominations for students in Missouri’s Sixth Congressional District. Each year, members of Congress are tasked with selecting qualified students from their respective districts to attend one of America’s prestigious military academies. “North Missouri year in and year out has produced impressive candidates for our nation’s military […]
Lawson man seriously injured in rollover crash on Route C
A resident of Lawson was injured Wednesday when the driver swerved his vehicle to avoid an animal in the road, traveled off the road, struck a ditch, and overturned. Seventy-three-year-old Craig Andrae received serious injuries in the accident and was taken by Lawson Fire and Rescue to the Liberty Hospital. The accident on Ray County […]
Bevier Post Office to be renamed in honor of fallen Navy SEAL
On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed North Missouri Congressman Sam Graves, bill to name the United States Post Office in Bevier, Missouri after Navy Special Warfare Operator 2nd Class Adam Olin Smith, a fallen Navy SEAL originally from Macon County. Smith died in 2010 as the result of a helicopter crash in Afghanistan during […]
Chillicothe teen hurt in rollover crash on LIV Road 520
The highway patrol reports a Chillicothe teenager received minor injuries in a rollover accident last night ten miles west of Chillicothe. Sixteen-year-old Jada Bennett was taken by ambulance to Hedrick Medical Center. Ms. Bennett was driving eastbound when the car began to skid on LIV Road 520, she overcorrected, causing the car to begin to […]
Former Missouri man sentenced to 17-years for traveling to Tennessee for illicit sex with a minor
A former Barry County, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for traveling from Missouri to Tennessee to engage in an illicit sexual relationship with a 15-year-old victim, who became pregnant and bore his child. Michael Douglas Peterson, 35, of Morristown, Tenn., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark on Friday, Dec. 7, […]
Laredo Board of Education approves school audit
The Laredo R-7 Board of Education approved the 2017-2018 school audit Monday evening. The candidate filing period was set for the board election. Candidates may file for the April 2nd Municipal Election today (December 11th) through January 15th from 8 o’clock in the morning to 4 o’clock in the afternoon. The school office will be […]
Powersville man injured in crash on Route U
A resident of Powersville was injured early Tuesday morning when the pickup he was driving traveled off a Putnam County lettered route and into a ditch. Fifty-two-year-old Andrew Untrauer was taken by ambulance to Putnam County Memorial Hospital in Unionville with minor injuries. Untrauer had been driving northbound on Putnam County Route U, six miles […]
Unionville man hurt in Monday morning crash on Highway 149
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 […]
Annual First Friday Hike scheduled for January 1st at Crowder State Park
Crowder State Park west of Trenton will hold its annual First Day Hike January 1st. The free guided hike of the three-point two-mile Tall Oaks Trail will begin at the Shelter 3 parking lot at 2 o’clock that afternoon. Resource Manager Anna Persell says the hike will last one to two hours depending on how […]
MoDOT planned road work for the week of December 10th, 2018
The following is a listing of general highway maintenance and construction work in North Missouri planned for the week of December 10 through the 16th from the Missouri Department of Transportation. In addition to the work listed below, there may be other road work conducted throughout the region. Many of these will be moving operations […]
Washington Street crash in Chillicothe results in citation
Chillicothe police officers responded to an accident in the 2600 block of Washington Street on Thursday afternoon. The investigation at the scene revealed that both vehicles were traveling south on Washington Street when a vehicle driven by Randel Hulett slowed to make a right turn. The second vehicle driven by Victoria Skinner struck the Hulett vehicle […]
Slick roads cause two accidents in Sullivan County
Two traffic accidents happened on Highway 5 in Sullivan County Thursday morning that injured drivers. The first accident was at 7:15 when a car driven by 34-year-old Joni Ussary of St. Joseph was northbound on Highway 5 when it slid off the road, struck a tree, and a fence. She was taken by private auto […]
Sullivan County Route PP Bridge Now Closed
The bridge on Route PP over the East Medicine Creek, just east of Osgood, is now closed, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation. The bridge was closed after a regularly scheduled inspection revealed critical deterioration to the structure. The anticipated closure time will not be known until an assessment is complete. During the closure, […]
Audio: Trenton woman chosen to help decorate White House for Christmas 2018
A Trenton woman was one of about 200 volunteers chosen from a pool of 6000 applicants selected to help decorate the White House for Christmas. Cindy Roy first heard about the opportunity to decorate the White House when former White House intern Adam Kirby visited her during his Winter Break from college last year. […]
Green City woman injured in head-on crash with big rig
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 […]
Kirksville woman injured after rear-ending garbage truck with minivan
The Highway Patrol reports a Kirksville woman sustained moderate injuries when a minivan struck a garbage truck one mile north of Sublette Tuesday morning. An ambulance transported 27-year-old Vanessa Hurley to the Northeast Regional Medical Center of Kirksville. Hall did not sustain any injuries. Hurley traveled north on U. S. Highway 63 when the minivan she […]
Trenton woman injured in Route Z crash
The Highway Patrol reports a Trenton woman sustained minor injuries when she lost control of the sports utility vehicle she drove on a snow-covered portion of Highway Z in Grundy County Tuesday morning. Emergency medical services transported 42-year-old Brandy Knapp to Wright Memorial Hospital of Trenton. Knapp traveled north on Highway Z when she lost […]
Longtime Trenton educator and author, Thomas Brown, dies at 94
Longtime Trenton educator and author Thomas Virgil Brown died Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018, in Trenton of natural causes. He was 94. Mr. Brown, Tom to his family and many friends, was born Aug. 9, 1924, on his parents’ farmstead just north of Melbourne in Harrison County, the son of Thomas Armfield Brown, a state legislator, […]
Missing Moberly man, subject of Endangered Silver Advisory, found dead
An elderly Moberly man who was the subject of an Endangered Silver Advisory due to being reported missing was pronounced dead after a traffic accident. Fatally injured was 81-year old Donald McCreary of Moberly who was involved in a motor vehicle accident Friday morning two miles west of Moberly on Route BB. The eastbound sports […]