The Highway Patrol reports two area teens sustained moderate injuries after being ejected from all-terrain vehicles one mile south of Blythedale Wednesday afternoon. An ambulance transported a 13-year-old boy from Trenton and a 14-year-old boy from Blythedale to the Harrison County Community Hospital. The Patrol did not release the name of the teens. The ATVs […]
Thirteen hog farm employees in Audrain County have tested positive for the coronavirus. Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Director Randall Williams says the cases impact the overall food chain. Some Missouri meat processing plants have closed or reduced their output due to coronavirus outbreaks, including in Moniteau and Saline Counties. “We […]
A Sunday evening accident in Trenton injured a Trenton boy when he climbed out the passenger side window of a moving truck in an attempt to climb into the bed of the pickup. A trooper said the 16-year-old youth lost his footing and fell out of the window and onto the roadway. The name of […]
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Communications Director Lisa Cox reported Friday evening that 363 employees have been tested for COVID-19 at the Smithfield pork processing plant in Milan. Fourteen of those employees tested positive. More than 900 employees have yet to be tested. Cox previously reported she believed more of a “box-in” strategy […]
Four teenagers from Macon were injured, two of them seriously, when a vehicle left a country road on a curve and overturned Thursday night. The highway patrol listed injuries as serious for the driver, 19-year-old Katie Sheets, and one of the passengers, 17-year-old Kari Russell. The other two occupants received minor injuries. They are a […]
Two Cameron teenagers were injured Thursday afternoon in a single-vehicle accident five miles north of Cameron. The 16-year-old boys received minor injuries and were taken by private vehicle to the Cameron Regional Medical Center. Their names were not released by the highway patrol due to their status as a minor. A trooper said the northbound […]
A teenager from Warrenton, Missouri was taken to Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe with minor injuries after the van he was driving went off a lettered route in Linn County. Nineteen-year-old Jase White was driving the van when it was demolished after it went off the left side of Linn County Route C and overturned. […]
A Springfield, Missouri, man has been charged in federal court with sexually assaulting three teenagers and recording the abuse on his cell phone. William Shane Berg, 47, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Springfield on Wednesday, May 6, with one count of producing child pornography. According to an […]
Two people were injured when two vehicles collided nearly head-on, Monday afternoon seven miles west of Chillicothe. Eighteen-year-old Dallas Hall of Jamesport received serious injuries as he was riding in a pickup driven by 17-year- old Dylan Tolle of Chillicothe. The driver of the other vehicle, 74-year-old James Fish of Jamesport, received moderate injuries. Both […]
A Palmyra teenager was killed early Sunday in northeast Missouri. Nineteen-year-old Jarrad Verdier was pronounced dead at the scene five miles east of New London in Ralls County. The patrol reports Verdier was thrown from the eastbound four-wheeler when it traveled off the right side of Oak Hill Road and struck a fence. Verdier was […]
The Missouri Department of Corrections has received notification that 19 offenders in a quarantined housing wing at Southeast Correctional Center (SECC) have tested positive for COVID-19. Following positive test results for three of the wing’s residents earlier this week, the Department of Corrections took proactive measures to gather vital data, contain the virus, and protect the SECC […]
FCS Financial is recognizing 26 different 4-H clubs and FFA chapters with $500 grants for submitting outstanding Shaping Rural Missouri grant applications. This is the first round of awards. Due to school closures, the second round of funding was issued with an application deadline of May 1. In the nine years of its existence, more […]
A Lawson resident received minor injuries when she swerved the car she was driving to avoid a deer in Ray County. Eighteen-year-old Shiann McGuire was to seek treatment on her own. The accident happened early Sunday on Wildlife Road in the vicinity of the Crooked River Conservation Area, which is Southwest of Knoxville. Mcguire was […]
The Department of Health and Senior Services has settled two appeals of medical marijuana facility application denials. As a result of these settlements, DHSS will issue one new medical marijuana testing facility license and will exchange an existing medical marijuana dispensary license for a new medical marijuana dispensary license. The new testing facility license will […]
A pickup was demolished and the driver injured in a single-vehicle wreck Monday in rural Carroll County. Nineteen-year-old Cody Shannon of Norborne received minor injuries and was taken by a family member to the Carroll County Memorial Hospital. The westbound pickup drifted off the right side of Route E when the driver over-corrected. The truck […]
Two Kirksville teenagers were hurt when a car turned into the path of a pickup truck just south of Kirksville. Two teenagers in the pickup, 19-year old Cody Stewart and 17-year old Sumerlynn Sewell, were taken to Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville with minor injuries. The driver of the car, 58-year old Harry McLaine […]
Additional details have been released in the arrest warrant issued to a Milan resident accusing him of burglary, stealing, and property damage last week at the 7th Heaven Convenience Store 1419 East 9th Street in Trenton. Nineteen-year-old Keone Edwards Stanton of 503 East 4th Street in Milan is in Grundy County custody in lieu of […]
Three Macon residents sustained injuries when a car overturned near Macon on Friday afternoon. An ambulance transported driver 18-year-old Chloe Dailey to the Samaritan Hospital of Macon with moderate injuries. Passengers 18-year-old Kristeena Jaecques and 20-year-old James Yearwood sustained minor injuries and refused treatment at the crash scene. The car traveled east on Jet Road […]
The North Central Missouri College Board of Trustees approved a Pandemic Response Policy and several other items related to COVID-19 Tuesday evening. The Pandemic Response Policy allows for 10 days of paid emergency leave to be made available immediately for current full-time employees who are unable to work due to needing to care for a […]
One person was fatally injured and four others received serious injuries when a pickup truck overturned on Highway 10 east of Excelsior Springs. A passenger, 53-year-old Shelly Lewis of Carrollton, was pronounced dead at Research Medical Center in Kansas City about one hour and fifteen minutes after the crash. She had been flown there by […]
