A section of Sullivan County Route UU will close for a culvert replacement Monday, December 21, and Tuesday, December 22. Local maintenance crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation plan to close Route UU from Whitaker Road to Route O from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily. During the closure, motorists will need to use […]
A Bethany man has been charged in Daviess County with three felonies after allegedly letting his 12-year-old son drive a utility terrain vehicle on December 5th, and the vehicle rolling on Beacon Avenue near 260th Street. Online court information shows 38-year-old Clifford McCrary has been charged with abuse or neglect of a child—no sexual contact, […]
The following is a list of general highway maintenance and construction work the Missouri Department of Transportation has planned in North Missouri for the week of December 21 – 27. All road closures and planned roadwork may be viewed on the Traveler Information Map at http://traveler.modot.org/map/. Inclement weather may cause schedule changes in some of […]
While Trenton’s asphalt plant produced a large amount of tonnage (25,000 tons) for street work this year, the amount did not include asphalt used in the Highway 6 resurfacing project. The general contractor had its own asphalt plant. Trenton City Administrator Ron Urton spoke with KTTN. Before the resurfacing project, and in conjunction […]
The bridge on Highway 190 over the Thompson River in Livingston County reopened to two-way traffic on December 18th. It was the 100th bridge opened through Governor Mike Parson’s Focus on Bridges Program created to repair or replace 250 of the state’s poorest bridges. It was the 21st bridge completed in the Missouri Department of […]
A Hamilton man charged with second-degree murder was bound over to the Caldwell County Circuit Court on December 15th. Thirty seven-year–old Frank Randall Allen Bostic is scheduled for arraignment on January 12th. He has also been charged in Caldwell County with domestic assault in the first degree with serious physical injury and in Daviess County […]
A Milan resident sustained minor injuries when the pickup truck he drove overturned three miles southeast of Milan the morning of December 16th. An ambulance transported 20-year-old Devon Clinch to the Sullivan County Memorial Hospital of Milan. The pickup traveled west on Route C before running off the right side of the road, overcorrecting, going […]
A section of Sullivan County Route TT will close for a culvert replacement tomorrow, Wednesday, December 16. Local maintenance crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation plan to close Route TT from Alpine Drive to Route W from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. During the closure, motorists will need to use an alternate route. All […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Sumner resident sustained moderate injuries when the truck he drove overturned in Linn County the morning of December 15th. A private vehicle transported 19-year-old James Tye to the Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe. The truck traveled north on Highway 130 before running off the left side of the road two […]
The Newtown-Harris R-3 Board of Education the evening of December 14th approved Missouri Consultants for Education as its service provider for district policies, regulations, and forms. There was discussion of the results of a four-day week teacher survey, COVID-19, and shifting contracted transportation pay to payroll for full-time employees. The board reviewed the district report […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Lancaster man sustained serious injuries when a truck overturned three miles east of Queen City the night of December 14th. An air ambulance transported 26-year-old Ethan Strunk to the University Hospital in Columbia. The truck traveled south on Germania Avenue before running off the left side, overturning, and coming to […]
An Altamont man accused of stabbing a 16-year-old girl in Cameron in May entered a plea of not guilty in Clinton County Circuit Court on December 14th. Online court information shows Bronson Wildman waived formal arraignment, and the case was continued to January 5th for a plea or trial setting. Wildman has been charged with […]
Trenton city sales tax receipts are up by nearly 6% for General Purposes, Capital Projects, and Parks. City sales tax receipts for the 17th Street Bridge replacement project are up nearly 8%. Revenue from the city sales tax for Trenton Fire Department needs is up nearly 7%. Those increases are for the first eight months […]
The Highway Patrol reports two women sustained moderate injuries when a sports utility vehicle pulled into the path of a car one-quarter of a mile west of Lancaster Friday evening, December 11th. The driver of the car, 32-year-old Whittney Sires of Bloomfield, Iowa, and SUV driver 74-year-old Kay Schmitzer of Glenwood were transported by ambulance […]
President Donald Trump and the White House Coronavirus Task Force invited a small group of private business, state, and health care leaders to the White House to brief them on Operation Warp Speed, the COVID-19 vaccine production and distribution project started earlier this year. Dr. Randall Williams, director of the Missouri Department of Health and […]
A section of Sullivan County Route VV will close for a culvert replacement, Monday, December 14. Local maintenance crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation plan to close Route VV from Eagle Drive to Friend Drive from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. During the closure, motorists will need to use an alternate route. All work […]
The following is a list of general highway maintenance and construction work the Missouri Department of Transportation has planned in North Missouri for the week of December 14 – 20. All road closures and planned roadwork may be viewed on the Traveler Information Map. Inclement weather may cause schedule changes in some of the planned […]
The full reopening has been postponed of the Thompson River Bridge on Highway 190 in Livingston County. The contractor now plans to reopen the bridge to two-way traffic on December 18th. The reopening date was previously scheduled for December 11th. Missouri Department of Transportation Northwest Area Engineer Michael Marriott reports the contractor could not yet […]
A Pattonsburg man was injured Thursday evening when the vehicle he was driving failed to halt for a stop sign, traveled across Daviess County Route Z, and went off the road two and a half miles west of old Pattonsburg. Thirty-seven-year-old Ronald Bumgarner received moderate injuries and was transported by ambulance to the Cameron Regional […]
The Highway Patrol reports a La Plata man sustained minor injuries when the John Deere tractor he drove failed to yield to a car two miles south of La Plata the morning of December 10th. A private vehicle transported 24-year-old Perry Gingerich to the Samaritan Hospital of Macon. No injuries were reported for the driver […]
