Charges have been filed following separate law enforcement pursuits Sunday in Livingston and Caldwell counties. Thirty-seven-year-old Truitt Matthew Caudill of rural Chillicothe has been charged with resisting or interfering with an arrest for a felony and with felony drug possession. No bond was allowed pending his appearance in Livingston county circuit court. Truitt was taken […]
Tag: Thursday
Wes Guilkey hired as Elementary Building Principal for the Princeton R-V School District
The Princeton R-V School District has announced an agreement in terms and conditions in hiring a new Elementary Building Principal for the Princeton R-V School District during a special board of education meeting held Thursday night, March 3rd, 2022. Wes Guilkey, current K-12 Principal in the Mercer, Missouri School District, has agreed to a two-year […]
Drought conditions expand across Missouri
Drought conditions have expanded to include more parts of Missouri compared to last week. Approximately all of the KTTN listening area is listed as “Abnormally Dry” with the exception of a very small portion of northern Mercer County and adjacent portions of Harrison and Putnam counties. The abnormally dry conditions are described as covering 41 […]
Linn County crash sends one to hospital via Life-Flight helicopter
A two-vehicle accident involving pickup trucks on Thursday afternoon in eastern Linn County injured one driver. The crash happened on Highway 11 two miles west of New Boston. Seventy-one-year-old Robert Long of Kirksville received moderate injuries and was flown by a medical helicopter (Life Flight) to University Hospital in Columbia. The driver of the other […]
Audio: Grudges continue among Missouri Senate Republicans as bickering breaks out on the floor
The grudges continue among Missouri Senate Republicans. The upper chamber did not vote on any bills on Thursday. A group of Republicans who continue to stall work in the chamber ate up the clock talking about abortion. That’s when Senator Karla May, a Democrat from St. Louis, interrupted to speak her mind. The […]
Audio: Missouri lawmakers pushing “Missouri Stands by Ukraine” bill, prohibiting business with Russia
Vladimir Putin’s attack on Europe’s largest nuclear plant Thursday night is heightening alert from Missouri and the rest of the world. Missouri lawmakers have already been speaking out about a crisis over which our state has little control. House Majority Floor Leader Dean Plocher is pushing his House Bill 29-13. The so-called “Missouri Stands by […]
Parson digs in against evidence absolving reporter he accused of being a ‘hacker’
(Missouri Independent) – Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday once again refused to accept the conclusions of an investigation by the highway patrol and Cole County prosecutor surrounding a reporter who uncovered a security flaw in a state website. Speaking to a gathering of reporters and editors in the governor’s mansion for Missouri Press Association Day, […]
White House wants $10 billion for Ukraine aid, $22.5 billion for more COVID help
(Missouri Independent) – The Biden administration is asking Congress to provide $10 billion in assistance to Ukraine and $22.5 billion in COVID-19 funding on a fast timeline — within the next week. White House acting budget director Shalanda Young wrote in a letter to lawmakers that this likely won’t be the last emergency funding request for either […]
Macon man injured after SUV overturns on Jewell Avenue
A Macon man sustained serious injuries as the result of a sports utility vehicle overturning four miles north of Macon on Thursday afternoon, March 3. An ambulance took the SUV driver, 54-year-old Raymond Wood, to Samaritan Hospital in Macon. The SUV traveled north on Jewell Avenue before running off the right side of the road […]
Master Gardener course to be offered in Kirksville
A Master Gardener course will be offered in Kirksville. Classes will be at the Adair County Extension Center Tuesdays from 9:30 to noon from March 22nd through June 7th. The presentations will also be available on Zoom. There will also be outdoor, in-person lab classes Thursday mornings from 9 to 11 o’clock on April 14th […]
Grundy County Health Department reports 39 new cases of COVID-19, Sullivan County 4 new cases
Grundy County Health Department Tuesday evening reported 39 new cases of COVID-19 have occurred in the past week. That number raises the total since the pandemic began two years ago to 2686. Grundy County has three dozen active COVID cases with 66 deaths attributed by the health department to COVID-19. Vaccine Availability in Grundy County […]
North Central Missouri College celebrates TRIO Day
The North Central Missouri College’s TRIO Department celebrated the series of federal grants that make their programs possible during the week of National TRIO Day (February 26). For millions of students from low-income families who strive to be the first in their families to attend and graduate from college, seven federally funded programs called TRIO […]
Annual Better Woman Conference set for March 25th and 26th in Trenton
Trenton First Assembly of God Church will be hosting its annual Better Woman Conference on March 25-26. The conference will feature Nicole Unice. Nicole is an author, counselor, wife, and mom of three. Nicole uses her wit and wisdom to help encourage others to live with freedom and lead with purpose. She desires you to […]
Missouri Representative: The war on Ukraine will have global consequences and will affect every American
State Representative Mike Haffner of Pleasant Hill says the largest invasion has occurred on a sovereign nation in Europe since World War Two. Haffner, a retired Navy fighter pilot, says Russia’s attack on Ukraine is unprovoked and unjustified. Last Thursday, the Republican requested a moment of silence in the Missouri House of Representatives […]
Missouri budget bill blocks Medicaid patients from accessing Planned Parenthood
Missouri’s supplemental budget bill signed into law Thursday includes a provision to block patients who rely on Medicaid from accessing Planned Parenthood health centers. Federal Medicaid law protects patients’ rights to choose their providers, including Planned Parenthood. Michelle Trupiano, executive director of the Missouri Family Health Council, noted because of the Hyde Amendment, Medicaid cannot cover abortions, […]
Trenton firefighters respond to 12th Street address
A shed in Trenton is considered a total loss after a fire on Thursday night, February 24. Trenton Firefighter Alex Lovell reports that, when the fire department arrived, the shed built to enclose a wood stove at 705 West 12th Street was fully involved in fire. Firefighters deployed a one and three-quarter-inch attack line and […]
Farm equipment becomes wedged under bridge in Chillicothe
Chillicothe police on Thursday afternoon responded to the railroad overpass on Highway 36 and Mitchell Road where a large piece of farm machinery had become wedged underneath the bridge. Railroad officials were notified and are to check the structural integrity of the bridge, but the machinery did not appear to have inflicted extensive damage. Officers […]
Vilsack: Fertilizer prices are biggest worry for farmers after Russian invasion
(Missouri Independent) – The Russian invasion of Ukraine this week might drive up the costs of farm fertilizers globally — which nearly quadrupled last year in price in the United States and remain high — and presents an opportunity for unscrupulous companies to artificially inflate those prices further, according to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. “That’s […]