At the Trenton R-9 Board of Education meeting on April 12th, Superintendent Mike Stegman discussed the school district’s bomb threat on March 30th. He said a threat came into the Trenton Police Department regarding a suspicious package at the high school, and the police informed the school district. Trenton Middle School and High School were […]
Captain Erik A. Gottman, commanding officer of Troop B, Macon, announces Trooper Trent J. Haley is being promoted to the rank of corporal effective May 1, 2022. He will be designated assistant zone commander of Zone 5 which encompasses Adair, and Schuyler counties. Haley was appointed to the Patrol on January 7, 2007, and after […]
Mosaic Life Care Foundation is awarding a CollaborACTION Grant worth $50,000 to a collaborative project between the Second Harvest Community Food Bank and St. Joseph Youth Alliance. The grant will assist the two organizations in creating and implementing the First Course Culinary Academy. The academy will offer a culinary training program for opportunity youth, ages […]
The Missouri Corn Growers Association and Missouri Corn Merchandising Council are proud to announce the 2022 Missouri Corn Scholarship recipients. Each student will be awarded a $1,000 scholarship to contribute to their college education. Missouri high school seniors and college students entering their senior year pursuing a degree in agronomy or related field were eligible. Candidates […]
Federal waivers put in place at the height of the pandemic allowed federal child nutrition programs more flexibility in delivering meals to households because kids were not at school. Those waivers are set to expire in a few months, and in states like Arkansas, groups working to fight hunger warn that more children, especially in rural areas, […]
Food insecurity is getting more attention these days, and some working families still have trouble meeting basic needs under mounting living expenses and aid eligibility being out of reach. A Minnesota plan aims to close the gap. Minnesota is one of the states not at the maximum eligibility level for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). […]
A Missouri woman was sentenced in federal court for her role in a conspiracy to distribute substantial quantities of methamphetamine in the Henry County, Mo., area. Vita P. Hurt, 67, of Blairstown, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Greg Kays to 13 years and two months in federal prison without parole. On Aug. 11, 2021, […]
Leadership Northwest Missouri again plans on holding a “music jam” as the event will be raising funds for the organization. This is the program in which community leaders have training and networking opportunities to promote regional growth. Participants are selected from 19 counties. To date, more than 440 persons have taken part in the series […]
Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation shows that young turkey hunters in Missouri harvested 2,881 birds over the past youth weekend, April 9 and 10. The top harvest counties were Miller with 87 birds harvested, Osage with 71, and Franklin with 71. Young hunters checked 2,795 turkeys during the 2021 spring youth weekend. […]
Another area of Trenton will undergo routine flushing of the water distribution system. As of Monday, April 11, 2022, Trenton Municipal Utilities staff will be flushing the distribution system east of Highway 65 to the City limits. This is a semi-annual requirement of the water treatment process. TMU reports that maintenance improves the quality of […]
Trenton FFA member Colton Roy was selected as one of 16 members to represent Missouri FFA as a Missouri State FFA Officer for the 2022-2023 year during interviews held in Columbian on April 8th and 9th. Colton was selected by the nominating committee through a rigorous interview process that included a 50 question FFA and […]
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports separate arrests Sunday in Daviess and Sullivan counties. Twenty-one-year-old Luke Ungerer of Ballwin was stopped in Sullivan County Sunday afternoon and accused of driving while intoxicated, speeding, and having no insurance. In Daviess County on Sunday morning, 21-year-old Danny Hadley of Kansas City was accused of driving while intoxicated, […]
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is pleased to announce 30 finalists for the 2022 National Medal for Museum and Library Service. The National Medal is the nation’s highest honor given to museums and libraries that demonstrate excellence in service to their communities. Since 1996, the award has honored 176 institutions that demonstrated extraordinary […]
Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced the entry of a consent judgment against Happy Fun Events, LLC, Owen Spencer Hunn, and Martha Hunn. The Hunns owned Happy Fun Events, a Utah-based company, that put on “Lantern Fest” events around the country. Happy Fun Events had scheduled an event in Jefferson County for November 2018 that it […]
One person died as the result of a fire at a three-story residential apartment house in Chillicothe on Friday evening, April 8, 2022. Chillicothe Fire Chief Eric Reeter reports after the initial knockdown of the fire, crews entered the structure at 1015 Polk Street in search and rescue mode. Firefighters searched the downstairs apartment for […]
The Caldwell County Sheriff’s Department reports a man was taken into custody after a short pursuit on April 5th as a result of the discovery of an illegal homegrown marijuana operation Forty-two-year-old Jamal Ghazai of Lathrop has been charged with felonies of possession of a controlled substance and manufacture of 35 grams or less of […]
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports arrests Thursday night in Sullivan and Chariton counties. Forty-eight-year-old Floyd Hollon of Lawson has been accused of driving while intoxicated for alcohol, failure to drive on the right half of a road in Sullivan county, and no insurance. He was processed at the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Department. In Chariton […]
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley spoke to Missourinet after a judge dropped the criminal charges in the 2018 deadly duck boat tragedy in Branson. Senator Hawley was Missouri’s attorney general when the amphibious craft capsized during severe weather on Table Rock Lake killing seventeen people. In one of his first official duties in Congress, […]
(Missouri Independent) – The biggest state budget in Missouri history could also leave the biggest surplus in state history when the next fiscal year ends. The Missouri House on Thursday sent 15 appropriation bills to the state Senate, one supplemental spending bill for the current fiscal year, and 14 spending $46.5 billion in the coming year. The […]
A former University of Kansas (KU) professor was convicted by a federal jury on three counts of wire fraud and one count of false statements after he deliberately concealed that he was also employed by a government-affiliated university in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) while working on U.S. government-funded research at KU. Feng Tao, […]
