Two cars collided Sunday evening at 28th Street and Highway 65 in Trenton, resulting in possible injuries for three persons. A street sign was knocked over and police issued one citation. It was just after 6 o’clock when a car was northbound on Highway 65 as another car attempted to cross 65 from the west […]
Four people were injured, including two children, in the collision of two vehicles Sunday afternoon one mile to the north of Gower. The Clinton county accident happened at the junction of Highway 169 and Route Double-V at 3:25 pm. One driver was arrested following an investigation. Forty-one-year-old Matthew Schmidt received minor injuries and 37-year-old Elizabeth […]
Missouri State Highway Patrol Superintendent Colonel Eric Olson has announced written knowledge testing will be provided for commercial driver license applicants with essential needs beginning today (Monday) The CDL written tests will be limited to specific testing locations statewide. A spokesperson says one of the CDL written testing locations to be open will be at […]
The following is a list of general highway maintenance and construction work the Missouri Department of Transportation has planned in North Missouri for the week of April 27 – May 3. All road closures for roadwork, incidents, and ongoing flooding can be viewed on the Traveler Information Map at http://traveler.modot.org/map/. Inclement weather may cause schedule […]
FCS Financial is recognizing 26 different 4-H clubs and FFA chapters with $500 grants for submitting outstanding Shaping Rural Missouri grant applications. This is the first round of awards. Due to school closures, the second round of funding was issued with an application deadline of May 1. In the nine years of its existence, more […]
Two people were injured Tuesday afternoon when a car left Highway 10 and came to a stop in a pond in rural Carroll County about 4:10 pm, two miles east of Norborne. Taken by emergency medical services to the Ray County Memorial Hospital in Richmond were the driver, 30-year-old Jill Stewart of Grain Valley and […]
One person was killed and another was injured Sunday night at a railroad crossing in Ray County. The highway patrol said the accident happened when a vehicle containing two Richmond residents failed to yield to a railroad crossing traffic control device, drove around the train crossing arm and was struck by the westbound locomotive on […]
A New Hampton resident was injured and later arrested, Sunday night in a single-vehicle rollover accident in eastern Gentry County. Thirty-four-year-old Heather Daleske received minor injuries and was taken by a private vehicle to the Harrison County Community Hospital in Bethany. Daleske was eastbound when the sports utility vehicle traveled off the north side of […]
A northwest Missouri resident was fatally injured when the car he was driving veered off a road in Nodaway County overturning several times. Thirty-three-year old David Pivral of Hopkins was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at MosaicMmedical Center in Maryville. The crash happened Friday evening seven miles northeast of Pickering on Route NN […]
A Lawson resident received minor injuries when she swerved the car she was driving to avoid a deer in Ray County. Eighteen-year-old Shiann McGuire was to seek treatment on her own. The accident happened early Sunday on Wildlife Road in the vicinity of the Crooked River Conservation Area, which is Southwest of Knoxville. Mcguire was […]
The following is a list of general highway maintenance and construction work the Missouri Department of Transportation has planned in northern Missouri for the week of April 20 – 26. All road closures for roadwork, incidents, and ongoing flooding can be viewed on the Traveler Information Map at http://traveler.modot.org/map/. Inclement weather may cause schedule changes […]
“I don’t remember taking the hit…” Retired MoDOT employee Mark Fresen only recalls the moments before a truck side-swiped the truck-mounted attenuator—or TMA—he was driving in a St. Louis work zone, crushing in the cab and pinning him inside. But it was an experience he’ll likely never forget. “When I woke up, I know someone […]
KTTN incorrectly reported the results of three votes taken at the Trenton R-9 Board of Education meeting Tuesday evening. Board Secretary Susan Leeper reports board members Corey Leeper and David Whitaker voted in favor of changing back to how hourly employees were paid before switching to annualization. Members voting against the change were Board President […]
The Trenton R-9 Board of Education heard several reports during on Tuesday evening’s virtual meeting. Trenton High School Principal Kasey Bailey recommended postponing graduation and continue to consider how the district might hold the event. The board agreed with that recommendation. Bailey acknowledged some students might not be able to attend graduation if postponed due […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Brookfield woman sustained minor injuries in a three-vehicle accident involving a farm tractor in Carroll County on Friday morning. A private vehicle transported 32-year-old Briannie Stephens to the Carroll County Memorial Hospital of Carrollton. The driver of the tractor, 56-year-old Jeffery Harper of Carrollton, and the driver of the other […]
Missouri State Highway Patrol Superintendent Colonel Eric Olson announces that the Patrol is extending again the suspension of written and skills-based driver road testing at all locations until April 27th. The suspension includes operator, commercial driver’s license, and motorcycle testing. The Patrol is also extending the suspension of salvage inspection at all locations and bus […]
Route WW will remain closed today, Thursday, April 9, through 3 p.m. for a culvert replacement. Local maintenance crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation replaced the culvert today, April 8, but their barricades blocking the roadway between Route ZZ and the Macon County line were moved, and a motorist drove through the freshly laid […]
A rehabilitation project on the Grand River Bridge on Highway 65 south of Chillicothe is scheduled to begin a new phase next week. Contractors from Radmacher Brothers Excavating Company, working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, will narrow the bridge to one lane beginning Monday morning, April 13, 2020, at 7 o’clock. The first portion […]
A pickup was demolished and the driver injured in a single-vehicle wreck Monday in rural Carroll County. Nineteen-year-old Cody Shannon of Norborne received minor injuries and was taken by a family member to the Carroll County Memorial Hospital. The westbound pickup drifted off the right side of Route E when the driver over-corrected. The truck […]
Two Kirksville teenagers were hurt when a car turned into the path of a pickup truck just south of Kirksville. Two teenagers in the pickup, 19-year old Cody Stewart and 17-year old Sumerlynn Sewell, were taken to Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville with minor injuries. The driver of the car, 58-year old Harry McLaine […]
