A Polo woman has been charged with felony involuntary manslaughter—second degree after her mother’s death in November 2019. Online court information shows 42-year-old Rachel Nichols’s bond was set at $100,000 cash only with a special condition of bond supervision by Supervision Services. A probable cause affidavit from Sergeant Tony Kirkendoll of the Caldwell County Sheriff’s […]
A Brookfield man accused of threatening to kill someone has been charged with felony first-degree domestic assault. An arraignment was held February 1st for 45-year-old James Slater who requested an own recognizance bond, but the prosecuting attorney opposed it. The court amended the bond as continuing at $30,000, but Slater is now allowed to post […]
A Hamilton man charged with second-degree murder after a traffic stop in Jamesport in October waived formal arraignment and entered a plea of not guilty on February 1st. Thirty-seven-year-old Frank Randall Allen Bostic’s motion for change of venue was sustained, and the case was transferred from Caldwell County to DeKalb County. The case was continued […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Cameron woman sustained moderate injuries when the car she drove hit an International truck in Cameron the morning of February 2nd. An ambulance transported 41-year-old Kimberly Potts to the Cameron Regional Medical Center. No injuries were reported for truck driver 50-year-old James Hall of Anderson. Both vehicles traveled west on […]
There was an injury accident on Monday morning one mile south of Maryville. Sixty-two-year-old Timothy Mackey of Maryville received moderate injuries and was taken by private vehicle to Mosiac of Maryville. The pickup was northbound when it went off the left side of Highway 71 and struck a snow embankment. The truck then traveled over […]
A northwest Missouri teenager is in jail after the Highway Patrol accused him of drunk driving contributing to an accident that has claimed the life of another teen. The crash occurred at 11:40 Sunday night just north of the community of DeKalb in rural Buchanan County. The highway patrol identified the deceased as 18-year-old Cassandra […]
The Highway Patrol reports the arrest of two Kirksville women in Adair County the night of January 29th on multiple allegations. Forty-four year old Crystal Dial was accused of possession of a prohibited item in a county jail and unlawful use of drug paraphernalia. She also had an Adair County warrant on dangerous drugs. The […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Salisbury man sustained minor injuries when the semi-trailer truck he drove failed to negotiate a turn and overturned about two miles north of Brunswick on Friday afternoon, January 29th. Fifty-four-year-old Robin Lamb was treated at the scene. The truck was turning on to Iowas Road from Highway 11 when the […]
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports a Saint Joseph man posted bond in Buchanan County on a capias warrant on a probation violation on a Grundy County felony charge. Fifty-two-year-old John Wayne Rothwell allegedly violated his probation on passing a bad check of $500 or more with no account or insufficient funds. His bond was […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Denver, Missouri teen sustained moderate injuries when she failed to negotiate a curve two miles east of Albany on Thursday morning, January 28th. An ambulance transported the 16-year-old to Mosaic Medical Center in Albany. The car traveled west on Highway 136 before running off the south side of the road, […]
A Lawson man has been charged in Caldwell County with first-degree murder following a shooting in Polo the morning of January 27th in which a woman died from her injuries. Thirty-five-year-old Kevin Lynn Barnett Junior has also been charged with assault—first degree or attempt, armed criminal action, robbery—first degree, unlawful possession of a firearm, and […]
Law enforcement reports a 35-year-old man from Lawson was taken into custody following a shooting in Polo the morning of January 27th in which a female died from her injuries. Caldwell County Sheriff Mitchel Allen reports the suspect was taken into custody following a manhunt that involved officers from the Highway Patrol, Polo Police Department, […]
An assistant principal at Nixa Junior High School in Nixa, Missouri, was charged in federal court with the sexual exploitation of a child for the purpose of producing child pornography. Colby Fronterhouse, 41, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Springfield, Mo., with one count of producing child pornography. […]
A Braymer man accused of hitting his 13-year-old daughter in the lip and stomach has been charged with felony abuse or neglect of a child, no sexual contact. Fifty-year-old Troy Dale Frazier also faces misdemeanor domestic assault, fourth-degree, first, or second offense. Bond was set at $7,500 cash only with special conditions for bond supervision […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Kansas City man sustained moderate injuries when he lost control of a box truck on a wet road, and the truck overturned three miles east of Mount Moriah Wednesday morning, January 27th. Emergency medical services transported 34-year-old Solea Hyenow to the Harrison County Community Hospital. The truck traveled west on […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Pennsylvania man sustained minor injuries when he lost control of the Freightliner he drove on snow-covered Interstate 35 in Daviess County, causing the big rig to overturn on Wednesday morning. Emergency medical services transported 49-year-old Keith Holecki of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to the Cameron Regional Medical Center. The truck traveled south […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Montana woman sustained minor injuries when a car failed to yield to a sports utility vehicle in Excello on Monday afternoon, January 25th. An ambulance transported the driver of the SUV, 57-year-old Lisa Rapien of Grey Cliff, Montana to the Samaritan Hospital in Macon. No injuries were reported for the […]
The Highway Patrol reports two passengers in a sports utility vehicle died as the result of the SUV losing control on ice and hitting a transit van nine miles west of Novinger on Monday afternoon, January 25th. A 12-year-old girl from Kirksville and 49-year-old Robin Wasson of Milan were pronounced dead at the scene by […]
The Highway Patrol reports the arrest of out-of-state residents in Linn and Gentry counties the afternoon of January 24th on multiple allegations. Forty-six-year-old Ruby White of Jacksonville, Illinois was arrested in Linn County. She was accused of speeding, two counts of failure to restrain the child, and misdemeanor possession of fewer than 10 grams of […]
A Dearborn resident was killed Sunday east of St. Joseph in an early morning crash. Twenty-three-year-old Jessie Harris was pronounced dead at the scene three miles east of Easton on Route N in Clinton County. Harris was driving east, failed to negotiate a curve, and overcorrected causing the car to go off the right side […]
