The University of Missouri has announced the official signing of North Mercer High School senior Sierra Michaelis to a national letter of intent. Michaelis, a 5'10” guard, is the 2012 Missouri Wendy's High School Heisman winner, and part of a three person recruiting class for head coach Robin Pingeton.

The PAR Broadcast Group now has the COMPLETE list of honorees in the Tri-Rivers Conference for the 2012 football season. A partial list was supplied, and read on the air yesterday. As expected, the two-time defending Tri-Rivers champion Milan Wildcats are strongly represented on the first-and-second teams, after a 10-1 season that included a 5-0 record in the conference.

At Chillicothe, a garage and a car were destroyed by separate weekend fires. The Department of Emergency Services was called out late Friday night to 122 JFK in Chillicothe due to the report of a structure fire.

Mooresville and Chillicothe men were injured early Monday afternoon in an accident on Highway 36, one mile east of Mooresville. The Highway Patrol said 46-year old David Hightower of Mooresville and 89-year old Roy Cope of Chillicothe were taken by ambulance to Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe.

For one half on Saturday afternoon in Hamilton, the Wellington-Napoleon Tigers played toe-to-toe with the top-ranked Penney High School Hornets, only to have the Hornets take the lead on the first drive of the third quarter, and roll to a 35-14 win, putting the Hornets two wins away from a third state football title in the last four seasons.

A Fort Smith, Arkansas resident was hurt when the car she was driving went off Interstate 35 and overturned south of Bethany. Sixty-six year old Sandra Hibbs was taken to Harrison County Community Hospital with what the Highway Patrol called minor injuries.

Feed Costs and Weather Drive Forages will be topics at the 2012 Missouri Livestock Symposium to be held next month in Kirksville.

Singers and musicians from throughout the Grand River Valley will perform a concert of traditional Christmas carols next month.

A 74-year old Humphreys man, Keith Smith, was killed late Wednesday afternoon in a farm accident just northeast of Humphreys. Sullivan County Sheriff Roger Smiley said Smith was using a farm tractor and disc mower when the tractor ran out of fuel.

The Share the Harvest program in Grundy County has funds available to process 50 deer donated for the Community Food Pantry. Hunters wishing to participate should take deer to J&M Process, in rural Jamesport at 618 Southwest 65th Street.

Hunters checked 69,614 deer during the opening weekend of Missouri’s November firearms deer season. The Missouri Department of Conservation says weather was the most significant factor affecting the number of deer checked.

The Princeton Chamber of Commerce will meet on Thursday to continue making plans for "A Hometown Christmas". This event is planned for Saturday, December 1st on the Princeton Square.

The annual Jenkins Townhouse lighting ceremony in Chillicothe will take place on Friday night (November 16th) at 6 o'clock. Santa Claus and his friends will be on hand as a Chillicothe students turns the lights on for the holiday season at the Jenkins Townhouse, located on Cherry Street, west of the Chillicothe Hy-Vee.

One person is reported dead as the result of a business fire in Cameron. Early Monday afternoon, the Cameron Police Department received a report of a structure fire at A-1 Mobile Truck and Tractor Repair at 1520 Pence Road. A fully engulfed machine type shed was located on the property.

Maintenance crews will be working this week in the WESTBOUND lanes of U.S. Highway 36 from Bob Griffin Road to U.S. Highway 69 in Cameron. The work will include closing the cross-over west of the Interstate 35 overpass.

A fire on Saturday night destroyed a car along Northwest Third Street just west of the Trenton city limits. The Highway Patrol said the vehicle previously had been involved in an accident at that location, and the driver left the scene. The driver's name was not immediately determined.

Fifteen agriculture students from North Central Missouri College in Trenton participated in the Missouri Post-Secondary Agriculture Student Organization State Conference last week in Sedalia. The conference was hosted by State Fair Community College, with students and advisors from seven Missouri community colleges attending.

The North Central Missouri College women's and men's basketball teams continued their strong starts to the 2012-2013 season, both claiming victories on Friday night at the Ketcham Community Center in Trenton, with the Lady Pirates drilling Graceland University's JV 100-51, while the Pirate men beat the Culver-Stockton JV 86-76.

North Central Missouri College is among colleges nationwide participating in the National "Roll Call" on Monday. This event is Monday at 12 noon in front of Geyer Hall on the campus in Trenton. President Dr. Neil Nuttall will give brief remarks and North Central employee Chelsea Woodard will sing the national anthem. There will also be a recognition of Missouri's "Fallen Heroes".

A west central Missouri man was hurt when the car he was driving went off Highway 13 and into a ditch north of Kingston. Thirty-two year old Jeremy Kirk of Bates City was taken to Cameron Regional Medical Center, with what the Highway Patrol called minor injuries.