A Kirksville woman was taken to a hospital after the car she was driving ran off Highway 6 and struck a tree in western Adair County on Sunday afternoon. Thirty-one-year-old Betty McDonald received moderate injuries. McDonald was not using a safety device and the car was extensively damaged in the accident three miles to the […]
Residents of Princeton and Des Moines were injured in an Interstate 35 traffic on Sunday afternoon in Daviess County. A car driven by 53 year old Melisa Huffman of Des Moines had been northbound when it went out of control, crossed the median, entered the southbound lanes and collided with a car driven by 63 […]
A Laclede resident was hurt when the pickup truck he was operating traveled off Highway 139 and hit a fuel barrel east of Sumner. Sixty-four-year-old Buddy McCune was taken to Pershing Memorial Hospital in Brookfield with moderate injuries. The crash happened during the noon hour Saturday three miles east of Sumner as the pickup was […]
The highway patrol reports a St. Joseph man has been arrested on multiple allegations. Thirty six year old Nicholas Newton was taken into custody about 9:30 Tuesday morning in Livingston County The highway patrol has accused Newton of felony tampering with a motor vehicle and felony possession of a controlled substance– methamphetamine. Newton also is […]
A driver from Kirksville was injured when his vehicle, stopped in traffic, was struck from behind on Monday one mile north of Kirksville on Highway 63. Taken by an ambulance to Northeast Regional Medical Center with moderate injuries was 76 year old Frederick Bailey of Kirksville. The driver of a northbound pickup, 21 year old […]
The Princeton Chamber of Commerce has provided additional information on local needs stemming from Sunday’s fire at the Cedar Ridge Apartments east of Princeton on Highway 136. Chamber President Kelly Bertrand says plans are to open the Cow Palace on Tuesday. July 21, 2020, as a place to gather items for families who were displaced […]
An Oklahoma woman received serious injuries in an Interstate 35 accident last night at 10 pm four miles south of Cameron. Thirty-year-old Aubrey Beaty of Enid, Oklahoma was taken by ambulance to the Cameron Regional Medical Center then flown by Lifeflight Eagle to the Truman Medical Center. She was a passenger in a car driven […]
Three teenagers from Maysville were injured last night at 10 pm when a truck traveled through a T-intersection and struck an embankment two miles west of Maysville. Taken by ambulance to Cameron Regional Medical Center were the driver, 17-year-old Coleman Roberts as well as two female passengers, both 14 years old. The highway patrol noted […]
Facebook videos from last evening show a raging fire with heavy smoke at the Cedar Ridge Apartments east of Princeton. Mercer County Fire Protection District, along with other departments, responded to the scene which has an address of 20802 Highway 136 of Princeton. Social media entries indicated the smoke could be seen from miles away. […]
Three people were hurt a motorcoach recreational vehicle made an improper pass and hit the side of a car in Holt. The RV went off the road and overturned onto its top and the car went off the road and came to rest on its wheels. The driver of the RV, 36-year old Dustin Leach […]
A Breckenridge resident was hurt when a pickup truck traveled into the path of a sports utility vehicle in Kingston. Seventy-year old Connie McCleary was taken to Cameron Regional Medical Center with moderate injuries. She was a passenger in a pickup driven by 37-year old Phillip Joyce of Cameron. Joyce, and the driver of the […]
Three people were hurt early Sunday when an all-terrain vehicle hit a stationary vehicle head-on in Carroll County and were ejected from the vehicle. Two passengers, 20-year old Christian Coats of Norborne and a 16-year old juvenile boy from Orrick, were taken by private vehicle to Carroll County Memorial Hospital in Carrollton with serious injuries. The […]
Highway Patrol Troop B Commanding Officer Captain James Wilt announces that written and skills testing for all classes of licenses will return to their normal dates and times in each of the troop’s 16 counties, effective Monday, July 20th. Testing locations, dates, and times can be found on the Patrol’s website under the Patrol Station […]
The Highway Patrol reports the arrest of a Milan man in Sullivan County the evening of Friday, July 17th on several allegations. Twenty-two year old Ramon Rodriguez Torres was accused of driving while intoxicated—drug, possession of less than 10 grams of marijuana, and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. He was also accused of speeding, failing […]
Action taken by the Chillicothe City Council in an executive session this week included the hiring of Seth Rorebeck from the Trenton Police Department as a full-time police officer. Trenton Police Chief Rex Ross confirms Rorebeck has worked full-time and part-time at the Trenton Police Department since his initial hiring in 2003. Rorebeck’s last day […]
Two people were injured Thursday night in rural Carroll county in an accident involving all-terrain vehicles when one of the ATVs had come to a stop along County Road 361 when it was struck from the rear by the other. The operator of the stopped vehicle, 22-year-old Quinton Johnson of Hale, was not reported injured. […]
One person was killed and another injured on Thursday afternoon when a sports utility vehicle traveled off a highway and overturned ejecting both occupants. The accident, just before 4 pm Thursday, happened on the westbound Highway 36 off-ramp to Highway 63 at Macon. Pronounced dead at Samaritan Hospital was the driver, 73 year old David […]
Four people died as a result of a vehicle traveling off a highway in far northwest Missouri and overturning multiple times. Only a two-year-old boy survived as the highway patrol said he was using a safety device. The accident on Thursday afternoon happened nine miles northeast of St. Joseph. The driver, 61-year-old Twila Obanion of […]
The Missouri Department of Corrections reports one additional case of COVID-19 among offenders at the Chillicothe Correctional Center. There are now 44 active offender cases and six active staff cases. There are no cases reported as recovered. The Western Missouri Correctional Center of Cameron has one active staff case and one recovered staff case for […]
A truck driver from Ridgeway was injured when the big rig he was driving ran off Highway 6 in western Grundy County and overturned onto its side striking a MoDOT highway sign in the process. Thirty one year old Travis Ury received moderate injuries and was taken by Grundy county EMS to the Wright Memorial […]
