A Mercer resident was hurt on Saturday afternoon approximately one-half mile north of Trenton when the motorcycle he was operating hit a mattress on Highway 65. Twenty-year-old Jacob Graham was taken to Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton with moderate injuries. The highway patrol reports the mattress had blown from the bed of a northbound 2015 […]
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16-year-old boy dies, 15-year-old passenger injured after being ejected from SUV in crash near Macon
A 16-year old boy was killed, and a 15-year boy injured Friday afternoon when a sports utility vehicle went out of control on a gravel road east of Macon. The accident happened two miles east of Macon on Vine Street as the 16-year old boy from Macon was driving east when he lost control of […]
Three from Iowa, including two children, injured in crash on Highway 36
Three Shenandoah, Iowa residents were hurt late Friday afternoon in DeKalb County when a sports utility vehicle overturned on Highway 36 east of Osborn. The driver, 28-year old Roger Cromwell, and a passenger, who’s a seven-year-old girl, both received serious injuries. Another passenger, a four-year-old girl, received minor injuries. All three were transported to Cameron […]
Man from Holt crashes near Lawson
A resident of Holt received serious injuries when the pickup truck he was driving veered off the road near Lawson. Twenty-year-old Devyn Williams was taken to Liberty Hospital. The accident happened Friday afternoon on Route D at Route KK in Ray County as the Westbound pickup traveled off the road, hit an embankment, became airborne, […]
Grundy Board of Education approves search for instructor; tax rate hearing set for August 18
The Grundy Board of Education has reviewed a list of items that ESSER Three funding can be used for. Approval was given to purchase updated curriculum in science, health, computer science, and the elementary diagnostic program called I-Ready. Administrators will begin developing plans to implement building improvements. A building walk-through is scheduled for the board […]
Trenton Police Department reports the arrest of two women
A Trenton resident, 46-year-old Stephanie Miller, has been arrested on a felony charge of possession of a controlled substance, synthetic cannabinoid. Court information accused her of possessing methamphetamines on Thursday. Bond is $5,000 cash with a July 27 appearance in the Associate Division of Grundy County Circuit Court. Trenton resident, 31-year-old Kelsey Lea McCaughey, has […]
Texas man pleads guilty in Missouri to $1.5 million investment fraud scheme
A Texas man pleaded guilty in federal court to defrauding two Kansas City-area brothers who have also been convicted in the investment fraud scheme. Duc Nguyen, also known as “Doug,” 57, of Houston, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark to one count of wire fraud. By pleading guilty, Nguyen admitted that he engaged […]
University of Missouri Extension to hold “Feedlot School” at North Central Missouri College
The University of Missouri Extension will hold a Feedlot School Aug. 4-5 on the Barton Campus of North Central Missouri College in Trenton. Speakers will present the “ins and outs of feeding cattle in Missouri,” says MU Extension beef nutritionist Eric Bailey. “There is renewed interest in feedlots due to new packing plants being built […]
Gallatin woman dies in northeastern Colorado crash
A Gallatin resident was killed Wednesday morning in northeastern Colorado when the pickup truck she was driving collided with a sports utility vehicle that had entered Highway 36 from a county road. Fatally injured was 71-year old Nancy Williams of Gallatin. The Colorado State Patrol reports the driver of the SUV, 40-year old Dean Icke […]
Woman arrested for fake COVID-19 immunization and vaccination card scheme
A California-licensed homeopathic doctor was arrested for her alleged scheme to sell homeoprophylaxis (the controversial use of homeopathy as a preventive against serious infectious diseases) immunization pellets and to falsify COVID-19 vaccination cards by making it appear that customers had received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized Moderna vaccine. Juli A. Mazi, 41, of […]
Missouri man pleads guilty to sexually assaulting children and child pornography
A Missouri man pleaded guilty in federal court today to sexually assaulting two young children to produce child pornography and to receiving and distributing child pornography after his wife pleaded guilty to the same charges last month. Mark John Millman, 37, of Merriam Village, a citizen of Great Britain and a legal alien resident, pleaded […]
Missouri man pleads guilty to botched robbery at auto dealer; robbery attempt ended in firefight with owner and shooting of employee
A Missouri man pleaded guilty in federal court to the botched robbery of a Grandview, Mo., auto dealership that ended when he shot an employee while fleeing after a shootout with the owner, who was also armed. Lyndale E. Watson, also known as “Red, “Blood,” and “Stoni Blud,” 36, Kansas City, pleaded guilty before U.S. […]
Rabies confirmed in bats captured at zoo in Omaha; recommended that 186 seek treatment
Visitors to a popular tourist destination in Omaha-Council Bluffs may have been exposed to a dangerous disease, and it’s not COVID-19. The Henry Doorly Zoo held an event over the 4th of July weekend where guests stayed overnight in the aquarium complex. One woman reportedly awoke to find a wild, brown bat near her head. […]
Jobs report for June 2021 shows unemployment creeping up to 4.3%
With the initial wave of COVID-19-related layoffs now more than a year in the past, the six-figure over-the-year job losses that had characterized the Missouri labor market for the last nine months of 2020 and the first three months of 2021 were replaced with an increase of more than 130,000 jobs from June 2020 to […]
Man from Breckenridge escapes injury during crash in Jackson County
A Breckenridge man escaped injury when the pickup he was driving was struck in the rear by another pickup while both were slowing in Jackson County traffic Tuesday afternoon. Twenty-four-year-old Misael Guzman Yepez of Kansas City received minor injuries and was taken to the Centerpoint Medical Center of Independence. The driver of the pickup that […]
Trenton man escapes injury in Benton County crash
A Trenton man escaped injury when the car he was driving in Benton county struck the rear of a pickup pulling onto Highway 65. The accident happened on Tuesday afternoon and injured the driver of the pickup, 78-year-old Charles Carr of Warsaw, who was to seek his own treatment for minor injuries. The driver of […]
Kansas man sentenced in Missouri to 12-years in prison for Payday Loan fraud and tax evasion
A Kansas man was sentenced in federal court for engaging in two separate fraud schemes related to millions of dollars in false payday loan debt and for tax evasion totaling more than $8 million. “After raking in millions of dollars from the victims of his fraud scheme, the defendant lied repeatedly and used every trick […]
Coalition of lawmakers introduce SHIELD Act to preserve Title 42 expulsions of illegal immigrants
Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) joined U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in introducing the Securing the Homeland from International Entrants with Life-threatening Diseases (SHIELD) Act to codify the Trump administration’s public health order under Title 42 that required U.S. border officials to promptly remove illegal immigrants to stop the spread of COVID-19. Senators John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Tom Cotton […]
Gallatin Board of Aldermen approve LAGERS retirement program; update provided on new electric and water meter installation
The Gallatin Board of Aldermen on Monday, July 12 approved the Missouri Local Government Employees Retirement System performing a payroll case study. That was after two LAGERS employees presented information on the retirement program. The LAGERS employees reported that if the city chose to enter the LAGERS retirement program, a new payroll case study would […]