More entries are needed for Saturday's Five Points Chili Cook-off for charity in Trenton. The event, featuring the on-site cooking of chili and salsa, will be held around the Five Points flag pole location in downtown Trenton. It is a fund raiser for the Trenton Downtown Improvement Association and North Central Missouri Children's Advocacy Center.
The Highway Patrol reports a Cameron man died early Monday morning when he was thrown out of his overturning vehicle in rural Livingston County. The victim, identified as 68 year old Chris Vanderau, was pronounced dead at the scene some two and a half hours after the accident is believed to have occurred.
An Independence company will be laying underground fiber optics cable in southern Trenton for the next several days. It is part of work that covers a large area of northwest and north central Missouri.
The Highway Patrol reports a Kirksville boy was fatally injured in an all terrain vehicle accident early Sunday evening in rural Adair County. The operator of the A-T-V was subsequently arrested on suspicion of DWI.
A Wheeling resident, 33 year old William Knouse, has been accused in Livingston County with manufacturing or attempting to manufacture methamphetamine and three counts of first degree child endangerment.
A new type of text alert could be coming to your cellphone beginning this month. Mike Lear's report includes an interview with a meteorologist from the National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill:
Attendance at the Trenton Family Aquatic Center during the first five days of this season is 1,042. That is up more than 400 (410) over 2011 and by 48 compared in 2010 during the first five days of the season.
A man from Unionville was injured late Wednesday morning when an all-terrain vehicle he was operating overturned north of Unionville. Forty-one year old Derrek Gilworth was flown by medical helicopter to University Hospital in Columbia, with injuries described as SERIOUS by the Highway Patrol.
The Missouri Department of Conservation will hold an informational open house on CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE at Macon County High School in New Cambria this Saturday afternoon (June 2nd) from 1 to 4 o'clock.
Republican candidate for Governor, Dave Spence, campaigned in the local area on Monday—noting Grundy was the 102nd county he has visited so far out of 114 in the state.
The old Leeper Hotel building in Chillicothe, which has been undergoing demolition in recent weeks, caught fire on Saturday evening while that demolition was continuing. The fire was contained to that structure, although there was smoke damage to a nearly chiropractor's office. No injuries were reported.
A Gentry County accident on Sunday night injured a King City resident. The Highway Patrol said 21 year old Donna Overton of King City received MODERATE injuries and was taken by ambulance to Northwest Medical center of Albany.
A resident of Dawn was hurt when the van he was driving traveled off a Livingston County road, hit a tree, and overturned. Forty-three year old Justin Mitchell was taken to Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe, with injuries described as minor by the Highway Patrol.
Five people were injured, three of them seriously, when two vehicles collided at an intersection five miles south of Gower in rural Clinton County. It happened at the junction of Highway 116 and County Line Road.
Cortney Roberts, the daughter of Shelly Rinehart and Todd and Shelley Roberts, signed a letter of intent to play both softball and basketball at North Central Missouri College in Trenton, Lady Pirates Basketball Coach Jenni Croy announced. Roberts is a graduate of Southwest R-1 School at Ludlow.
Eighty-one standout athletes have converged on North Central Missouri College in Trenton for the 2012 Lions All-Star Basketball Classic tonight and tomorrow (June 1st and 2nd). Four girls teams and four boys teams representing Lions Clubs from across northern Missouri will meet for a day of practice, tonight's awards banquet, and a total of eight games where an eventual champion will be crowned.
The Elizabeth and Arthur Barton Farm Campus at Trenton has received a monetary gift, in the first disbursement from the estate of the late Doctor James and Joanna Whitley of Columbia. That first disbursement is nearly $458,000 to support the construction of the farm campus.
The Chillicothe Mudcats summer baseball team opens its 11th season tomorrow (Thursday) night, playing the Clarinda A's at 7:05 in a MINK League game at Shaffer Park.
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