The Trenton R-9 Board of Education next week will consider approving a contract with the Missouri School Boards Association to assist with a superintendent search. The board will meet at the school district office on Tuesday evening December 11th at 5:30. Other items on the agenda include approval of the final 2017-2018 school audit, the […]
People languishing in federal prison for decades on nonviolent drug convictions may get a new chance at justice if the U.S. Senate finds the political will to pass sentencing reform in the final weeks of the lame-duck session. Groups on both left and right on the political spectrum support the First Step Act, a series of […]
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 […]
Missouri Senators Roy Blunt and Claire McCaskill announced that their legislation to bring the historic 1920’s riverboat Delta Queen back to the Mississippi River was signed into law. The bill reinstates a decades-long exemption to allow the boat to operate from its new homeport of Kimmswick, in Jefferson County – creating jobs and strengthening economic […]
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 […]
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 […]
Keep safety in mind when decorating with holiday greenery. Evergreens, holly, mistletoe and other traditional yuletide plants can pose risks, says University of Missouri Extension horticulturist David Trinklein. In days of old, people rarely brought holiday greenery into the home before Christmas Eve, Trinklein says. Doing so was considered bad luck for the coming year. […]
Missouri Republican Senator-elect Josh Hawley plans to reintroduce Senator Claire McCaskill’s duck boat legislation in the new Congress. Hawley released a statement Wednesday announcing his intention. McCaskill, a two-term Democrat who was defeated by Hawley in November’s election, filed her bill in August after 17 people died in July when a duck boat […]
The new Missouri Department of Public Safety director describes an internal review of the director’s office as “concerning”, and supports the governor’s call for a state audit. Brian Hauswirth has the story. The Missouri Department of Public Safety (DPS) includes the State Highway Patrol, the Missouri National Guard, Capitol Police, the Missouri Veterans, […]
An accident four miles north of Cameron on Monday resulted in injuries for two out of state residents. The crash happened on southbound Interstate 35 about noon Monday involving three vehicles, including a Freightliner. The highway patrol reports a pickup driven by 45-year-old Gretchen Vecellio of Yale, Oklahoma was stationary and undamaged in the median […]
Four Cameron residents were hurt Sunday morning when a sports utility vehicle went into a ditch east of Cameron. The driver, 37-year old Clint Riddle, and passengers, five-year-old Clinton Riddle, eight-year-old Kaylee Riddle, and 13-year old Rachel Gehrs, all of Cameron, were taken to Cameron Regional Medical Center with minor injuries. The accident happened one mile […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Gallatin woman sustained minor injuries when the vehicle in which she was a passenger was struck head-on by another vehicle one mile east of Altamont just after noon Sunday. Thirty-one-year-old Joel Newks of Milan traveled east on Highway 6 when the vehicle he drove lost control on the snow-covered road […]
Major farm management decisions concern capital and labor. Too little attention goes to the labor side of farming, says agricultural economist Joe Horner. To help decision-makers, he plans three University of Missouri Extension workshops across Missouri. Farm labor management isn’t like the old days when a farmer could hire neighbor boys to help. Also, present-day […]
As thousands of Missouri drivers travel home to spend Thanksgiving with family and friends this week, the Missouri Department of Transportation is urging them to exercise patience, caution and good judgment behind the wheel. The holiday week brings a trifecta of concerns to the roadway, including impaired driving, distracted driving, and heavy interstate congestion. The […]
A Missouri State Patrol trooper has been awarded a medal for helping to put three violent gang members behind bars in 2017. Missouri Public Safety Director Sandra Karsten says trooper Ryan Windham pulled over a vehicle in southeast Missouri’s Mississippi County and a backseat passenger began firing a gun at the trooper. During […]
A Brookfield resident was fatally injured early Sunday when the UTV she was operating went off the road east of Brookfield. Forty-nine-year-old Sharese Tollerton of Brookfield was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before 8 o’clock Sunday morning, approximately seven hours after the accident was believed to have occurred two miles east of Brookfield on […]
A Hopkins resident was killed and two others from Hopkins were hurt Saturday night in the head-on collision of a van and a pickup truck on a snow-covered road in Nodaway County. Fatally injured was 34-year-old Sharon Snuffer who was a passenger in the van driven by her 37-year-old husband, Justin snuffer. He was taken […]
Snow on Interstate 35 in northern Harrison County on Saturday night contributed to a two-vehicle accident which injured four people four miles south of Eagleville. The highway patrol reports a pickup truck northbound on I-35 went out of control on the snow-covered road, crossed the median, and traveled into the path of a southbound sports […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Spickard man was transported to a hospital by air ambulance following accidents west of Brookfield. A car, driven by 20-year-old Triston Walmsley of Spickard, was reportedly stopped sideways on westbound U. S. Highway 36 east of Route TT due to a prior crash when a westbound minivan, driven by 34-year-old […]
When Missouri hosted its first conference to address how to ease societal impacts when people get out of prison, about 40 people attended. This week, more than 600 people are on hand for the 13th annual, sold-out event. Conference founder Wendell Kimbrough is the chief executive officer with the Area Resources for Community and Human Services, […]
