The Trenton City Council will consider ordinances next week that would approve agreements. The council will meet at the Trenton City Hall on September 12th at 7 pm. The meeting will be available on Zoom. One of the ordinances would approve an agreement with Shuler Concrete for a concrete pavement repair project. The other would […]
The Highway Patrol reports two Holt residents sustained moderate injuries when a car failed to stop for a stop sign and struck an embankment in Ray County on Friday morning, September 9th. Emergency medical services took the driver, 80-year-old Everett Downs, to Liberty Hospital. A private vehicle took the passenger, a seven-year-old boy, to Excelsior […]
Jeff Crowley presented a program on the Rotary Group Study Exchange at the Trenton Rotary Club meeting on September 8th. Crowley was a member of the Group Study Exchange team that visited Yorkshire, England in 1992. He was one of five individuals from the Rolla area who spent six weeks in England to learn about […]
First Interstate Bank will hold its Fifth Annual Volunteer Day next week. First Interstate locations will close on September 14th at noon to give employees paid time to volunteer through service projects in their communities. The bank has area locations in Princeton, Milan, Unionville, Bethany, Grant City, and Albany. Projects will include assisting in preparing […]
The Missouri Department of Conservation is offering free upcoming hunter education skills sessions in northwest Missouri. Participants will earn the safety certificate needed to obtain hunting permits. These sessions will teach and test participants for safe firearms handling and basic hunting skills. The sessions offered and links to register include: Linn from 8 a.m. […]
On September 14th, the North Central Missouri College Criminal Justice program will be conducting a crime scene simulation learning activity in partnership with local law enforcement agencies. The public is advised that this is just a learning activity and has no cause for concern. “My Criminal Investigations course will be creating a crime scene on […]
A woman waived formal arraignment and entered a plea of not guilty in Division One of Livingston County Circuit Court on September 8th to first-degree murder. The case for 42-year-old Jennifer Anne Hall was continued to October 6th for a plea or trial setting. Hall was arrested in Kansas in May for the alleged murder […]
The Chula Fire Department will serve breakfast and hold a fish fry next week as a fundraiser. Food will be served at the Chula Community Center on September 17th. Biscuits and gravy will be served from 7 to 9 am. The fish fry with fixings will begin at 5:30 pm and run until 7 pm. […]
Multiple defendants were sentenced after waiving formal arraignment and entering pleas of guilty when they appeared in Division One of Grundy County Circuit Court on September 8th. Trenton resident James Robert Anderson pleaded guilty to a felony violation of an order of protection for an adult involving a second offense, stemming from July 2nd. He […]
The Highway Patrol arrested a Norborne man in Carroll County on Thursday afternoon, September 8th on multiple allegations. Forty-nine-year-old Stephen Hunter was accused of two counts of possession of a controlled substance—one involving methamphetamine and the other LSD. He was also accused of felony unlawful use of a firearm and misdemeanor possession of marijuana. The […]
Missouri’s U-S Senator Josh Hawley will not support making same-sex marriage a federal civil right. He says it should be up to the states. The Constitution says nothing about same-sex marriage. It says nothing about the definition of marriage, it leaves it to the states and always has. We have 200 years of […]
(Missouri Independent) – The U.S. Senate is on track to vote on a bill codifying marriage equality as soon as next week with negotiators increasingly confident it could become law. Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins said Wednesday they’re close to getting at least 10 Republicans to back the same-sex […]
(Missouri Independent) – Alex Tretbar scratched Lou Reed lyrics into the concrete “rhomboid exoskeleton” of an Oregon jail’s solitary confinement hole, then found the strength to write about it. “Some people work very hard,” the song goes, “but still they never get it right.” Tretbar, a Wichita native and University of Kansas graduate, references the […]
Responding to a letter from U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General announced they will review whistleblower allegations that the Biden Administration failed to properly vet hundreds of Afghan evacuees who have entered the United States, despite appearing on a DoD watchlist that includes known suspected […]
A man from Ohio was sentenced to prison in connection with his execution of a scheme to solicit payments from dozens of individuals in exchange for purported hunting leases he had no rights to sell. According to court documents, throughout 2019, Nathanal L. Knox, 30, of Ohio, operated a scheme where he placed online advertisements […]
A man from Missouri whose girlfriend told police about a hidden gun was convicted Thursday by a jury of one charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Rodrick Mitchell, 34, of Breckenridge Hills, Missouri, is scheduled to be sentenced on December 13 and could face up to 10 years in prison. On […]
The Trenton R-9 Board of Education will discuss budget amendments next week. The board will meet at the school district office on September 13th at 5:30 pm. Other items on the agenda include bus routes, a physical therapy contract, the Trenton Middle School Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America, and a Comprehensive School Improvement […]
A Minnesota man has been charged in Harrison County with two felonies after allegedly cutting another man with a foldable hand saw. Twenty-two-year-old Baley James Turner of Crosby, Minnesota was charged with first-degree assault or an attempt involving serious physical injury or a special victim and armed criminal action. A warrant was served on September […]
Chillicothe Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 944 will hold the 27th Annual Fly-In/Drive-In as a fundraiser next month. The event at the Chillicothe Municipal Airport October 1st will include a pancake breakfast and Young Eagle flights. Pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage, orange juice, and coffee will be available from 7 o’clock to 10:30 that morning. The cost […]
A Minnesota man pleaded guilty in Division One of Livingston County Circuit Court on September 7th to felony second-degree involuntary manslaughter. Thirty-seven-year-old Isse Mohamed Hassan is scheduled for sentencing on November 3rd. A November 29th jury trial was canceled. A probable cause statement accused Hassan of driving a semi-truck with a trailer east on Highway […]
