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Thursday session of circuit court has busy docket

Some defendants were sentenced and others had probation violating hearings Thursday in division one of the Grundy County Circuit Court. Among the cases: 22-year-old Justin Tyler Sharp of Trenton was sentenced to six years with the department of corrections, concurrent with a prison sentence imposed in Benton County. He was accused of domestic assault in […]

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Linn County accident injures two

Two Kirksville residents were hurt on Thursday morning in northeastern Linn County when a car overturned off Highway 11, north of New Boston. A passenger, 30-year old Chantelle Watson, was flown by medical helicopter to University Hospital in Columbia, with what the Highway Patrol described as moderate injuries. The driver, 51-year old Robert Pettibone, was […]

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Accident near Braymer injures Gladstone man

A resident of Gladstone was injured on Thursday afternoon when the car he was driving ran off a lettered highway approximately one mile south of Braymer. The Highway Patrol said 73-year old Ib Hagsten of Gladstone received minor injuries and was taken by ambulance to Liberty Hospital. Hagsten was westbound on Route KK when the […]