Bridge inspection crews based in Northern Missouri work to inspect bridges in the area. Specialized equipment is required for some inspections and crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation’s Central Office travel around the state conducting in-depth under-bridge inspections throughout the year. This specialized crew will inspect several bridges in our area in the coming […]
Missouri’s travelers are urged to drive and boat responsibly during the 2018 Labor Day weekend. Whether you are driving or boating, safety needs to be at the forefront of your plans. In Missouri, 11 people died and 265 were injured in 941 traffic crashes over the 2017 Labor Day holiday. That means one person was […]
(Missourinet) – A court has dismissed a lawsuit claiming a ballot measure that would increase the state’s motor fuel tax violates the Missouri Constitution. The decision means voters will determine the fate of the tax which would make $400 million a year available for roads. Spokesperson Scott Charton says the motor fuel tax would speed up […]
Bridge inspection crews based in North Missouri work to inspect the bridges in our area. This program of inspection, repair, and maintenance of the more than 10,000 bridges across the state ensures the bridges are kept in the best possible condition for as long as possible for all those that travel across Missouri’s roadways. Specialized […]
Traffic will be narrowed on a section of westbound U.S. Route 36 between Meadville and Laclede beginning next week. The Missouri Department of Transportation contracted with Klocke, Inc. to repair scour damage at the Higgins Ditch Bridge. The contractor plans to close the driving lane between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. daily beginning Tuesday, Aug. […]
Waiving preliminary hearings Tuesday in the Associate Division of Grundy County Circuit Court were Andrew Lane Epperson of Laredo, David Clay-Austin Travis of Spickard, James Lewellen, and Ricky Eugene Shoemaker—both of Trenton. Each was bound over for arraignments September 6th in Division One of the circuit court. Epperson, from a February 1st arrest, faces charges of driving […]
Three teenagers from the Kansas side of the Kansas City area were killed and ten others hurt when a church van had a tire blow-out and crashed north of Bolivar in southwest Missouri. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, a 14-year-old girl from Louisburg, Kansas, a 16-year-old boy from Olathe, Kansas, and a 17-year-old […]
The highway patrol reports a Trenton resident was injured Thursday night at 9 pm four miles west of Jamesport when a motorcycle hit a cow. The patrol reports 66-year-old Glenn Tucker was transported by medical helicopter (LifeFlight) to the North Kansas City Hospital with serious injuries. Tucker was eastbound on Highway 6 when the accident with […]
International Play Music on the Porch Day is later this month. Everyone is invited to celebrate the holiday by singing, dancing, shaking rattles, or beating drums in front of Farm House Collection on Broadway in Jamesport August 25th from 10 o’clock in the morning to 1 o’clock in the afternoon. Participants may bring their own […]
The bridge on Route AA/H over Interstate 35 in Harrison County is now open to all traffic. Crews from Chester Bross Construction Company of Palmyra, working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, were able to reopen the bridge last Friday, August 4 and opened all lanes of I-35 to traffic this morning. Contractor crews closed […]
The Route AA/H Bridge over Interstate 35 in Harrison County has been closed since late May for a deck replacement project. So the crew may tie in the new bridge deck to the existing roadway and complete guardrail work under the bridge, the northbound lanes of I-35 are now closed. Traffic is being routed up […]
A Sullivan County bridge will close to complete required maintenance. The Route 139 bridge over Newtown Branch, built in 1933, carries almost 200 cars each day. Repairs such as these help MoDOT prolong the life of the many bridges that dot the roadways of Northwest Missouri. Crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation plan to […]
The McGuire Creek Bridge on Route 116, just east of the Buchanan/Clinton county line is now open to all traffic. Crews from Capital Paving and Construction, LLC, working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, were able to reopen the bridge yesterday evening, July 19. Contractor crews closed the bridge in June and replaced it with […]
The Highway Patrol reports the arrest of a Hamilton man in Livingston County Wednesday night on a DeKalb County warrant accusing him of multiple allegations. The warrant for 36-year-old Scottie Robertson was for possessing drug paraphernalia. Robertson was also accused of failing to drive on the right half of the roadway, driving while suspended, misdemeanor […]
Two men arrested by the Highway Patrol in Sullivan County Sunday afternoon have both been charged with felony second-degree assault. Probable cause statements report 25-year-old Darrell Jesse Palmer of Milan and 49-year-old Orville Ray Hostetler of Newtown allegedly assaulted a man who came to help with plumbing at a residence in the 200 block of […]
A resurfacing project through Mercer, Grundy, Livingston, and Carroll counties is expected to continue at least through mid-August. The Missouri Department of Transportation has contracted with Vance Brothers to resurface approximately 83 miles of U.S. Route 65 between the Iowa border and the Missouri River as well as a small portion of Route 6 near […]
The Highway Patrol reports two Trenton residents sustained injuries when their motorcycle struck a deer and they were ejected four miles north of Laredo Saturday night. Sixty-three-year-old James Ellis drove north on Route V when the motorcycle struck the deer that had entered the road. The motorcycle overturned, slid off the east side of the […]
The Highway Patrol reports the arrest of two individuals in area counties Friday night. The Patrol arrested 51-year-old Gail of Eldon in Caldwell County and accused her of misdemeanor driving while intoxicated and failure to drive on the right half of the roadway. She was transported to the Caldwell County Detention Center on a 24-hour […]
Routine bridge maintenance helps the Missouri Department of Transportation extend the life of the many bridges that dot the roadways of Northwest Missouri. Such is the case with the Higgins Drainage Ditch Bridge west of Route 139 on U.S. Route 36. The bridge, built in 1974 and rebuilt in 2007, carries more than 7,000 cars […]
Another Grundy County bridge will close to complete required maintenance. The Route N bridge over No Creek, built in 1933, carries almost 200 cars each day. Repairs such as these help MoDOT prolong the life of the many bridges that dot the roadways of Northwest Missouri. Crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation plan to […]
