Work will soon resume on both Linn County Route M and Livingston County U.S. Route 65 through Chillicothe. Missouri Petroleum, working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, will begin the second stage of a resurfacing project on Route M in Brookfield on Monday, Sept. 9, followed by U.S. Route 65 through Chillicothe. Work will take place […]
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Record numbers attend Trenton High School Alumni Reunion
Record numbers were reported at each of the All-Alumni events over the weekend and most of the special classes shared similar responses with great attendance. The 70th Annual Trenton High School Alumni Reunion is now history and plans are already underway for the 2020 edition. Officers of the Foundation Trust for THS/THS Alumni Association were […]
Missouri Department of Conservation now offers “Auto-Renewal” online permit purchases
Renewing Missouri hunting, fishing, and trapping permits is now easier and more convenient through the Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) new online Permit Auto-Renewal service. Permit Auto-Renewal allows online permit buyers to automatically renew their permits prior to the start of the next season or permit year so they never have an expired permit when […]
THS Alumni Window Decorating Contest winners announced
Winners in the second annual Trenton High School Alumni Window Decorating Contest have been announced and in a two-way tie for first place were windows decorated by the Class of 1966 and the Class of 1969. The winning displays are located at Howard’s Department Store and Main Street Antique Mall respectively. Due to the tie, […]
Troopers report arrests in Mercer County
The highway patrol reports arrests of men from Bethany and Mercer Sunday afternoon in Mercer county. Forty-seven-year-old Leland Saxton of Bethany and 52-year-old Russell Ice of Mercer were taken into custody at 9:20 Sunday morning pending the filing of charges. Saxton was arrested on a Mercer County warrant for an original charge of failure to […]
Social Security scam hits area residents
Chillicothe police say a scam is circulating again in which a telephone caller claims to be with the Social Security office. Police indicate the caller may claim there’s a warrant or other issue that will result in the suspension of the social security number of the person answering the phone if payment is not made. […]
Sheriff Stephen Stockman: Lack of tax revenue to staff office, build new facility or house inmates
Mercer County Sheriff Stephen Stockman has released more information on the inmate from Kansas City who escaped from the Mercer County Jail in Princeton Wednesday. It was the second time in August 27-year-old Drake Kately has been reported as escaping and he has yet to be found by law enforcement. Stockman says dispatch notified the […]
Trenton man arrested on child endangerment allegation
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of a Trenton man Thursday on s child endangerment allegation. Thirty-nine-year-old Mark Bottcher has been charged with misdemeanor second degree endangering the welfare of a child. Bond is $3,000 cash only, and he is scheduled for the Associate Division of Circuit Court September 10th. Court documents accuse […]
MoDOT planned road work in northern Missouri for the week of September 2, 2019
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 September 2 – 8. MoDOT will halt temporary lanes closures throughout the state to accommodate an increase in traffic due to the Labor Day holiday. Most temporary lane closures […]
California man sentenced in Missouri to 18 years in prison for sex trafficking 6 victims
A Sacramento, Calif., man was sentenced in federal court for the sex trafficking of six victims. Ronald Ean Taylor, 45, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner to 18 years in federal prison without parole. The court also ordered Taylor to pay $5,000 in restitution to one of his victims, and $6,100 in […]
Trenton Street in Chillicothe to close twice during the month of September
Chillicothe Police Chief Jon Maples reports a street will be closed twice during the month of September. Trenton Street will be closed from JFK to 10th Street for the Fourth Annual Quinn Memorial Fun Run and 5K the morning of September 21st. An officer will lead the event, which starts at 8 o’clock. That section […]
Prisoner who escaped from Mercer County Jail escapes again using board to open wall
The Mercer County Sheriff’s Department reports a Kansas City man who escaped from the Mercer County Jail in Princeton earlier in August has escaped again. Sheriff Stephen Stockman reports it is believed 27-year-old Drake Kately escaped around 8:30 Wednesday night by tearing a hole in the back wall of his jail cell with a board […]
American Family Insurance agents with participation of FFA combat hunger
American Family Insurance Agent Cara McClellan of Trenton joined other American Family agents of Missouri in participating in a donation drive and food packaging event with the Future Farmers of America to combat food insecurity. Donations and the American Family Insurance Dreams Foundation one-to-one matching gift program for charitable organizations helped provide more than 128,000 […]
No bond warrant issued for Trenton man accused of child molestation
A warrant has been issued for a man charged in Grundy County with felony third-degree child molestation, a child less than 14 years of age, forcible compulsion. Grundy County Prosecuting Attorney Kelly Puckett has filed a complaint against 70-year-old Scott Dames Keith, whose last known address was Trenton, accusing him of subjecting a confidential victim […]
North Central Missouri College testing center is now Pearson Certified
The North Central Missouri College Testing Center, located at the NCMC Library in Geyer Hall on the main campus in Trenton, MO. is now certified as a Pearson Testing Center. By providing guidelines and procedures that come with Pearson certification, the NCMC Library can offer tests such as the HiSET and MoGEA. By being certified, […]
Trenton High School Alumni Association weekend kicks off with window decorating competition
Decorated windows around town will be unveiled Thursday night for the Second Annual Trenton High School Alumni Association Window Decorating Contest as part of the 70th Annual THS Alumni Reunion Weekend. Past and present classes and school organizations were invited to select business windows of their choice as well as themes. Judging of the windows […]
Missouri man sentenced to almost 3 years in federal prison for domestic assault
A civil service employee at the Fort Leonard Wood Army Base has been sentenced in federal court for assaulting his ex-wife and another person. Kerwin Omar Martin, 51, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Brian C. Wimes on Tuesday, August 27, to two years and 10 months in federal prison without parole. Both Martin and […]
Missouri man pleads guilty to illegally possessing firearms, including machine gun
A Sarcoxie, Missouri man has pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally possessing firearms, including a machine gun. Leng Lee, 36, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge David P. Rush on Monday, August 26, to one count of being a felon in possession of firearms and to one count of illegally possessing a machine gun. […]
Several bridges in northern Missouri to benefit from federal money
Several lettered-route bridges within the Green Hills Region are to benefit from federal money that Congressman Sam Graves announced will be forthcoming to the Missouri Department of Transportation. Each of the targeted bridges has a poor condition rating. Graves received notification from the U.S. Department of Transportation that Missouri will receive $20.7 million for the […]
Application deadline approaching for disaster unemployment benefits in six Missouri counties
The Missouri Department of Labor’s Division of Employment Security will accept applications for Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) for individuals in six Missouri counties through September 5, 2019, whose employment was lost or interrupted due to severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding that began April 29, 2019, and ended July 5, 2019. A disaster assistance amendment was […]