Results have been announced from the Swine Show at the North Central Missouri Fair on August 3rd. The grand champion boar was shown by Seth Summers of Chillicothe, and the reserve champion was shown by Haley Kidd of Chillicothe. The grand champion gilt was shown by Timothy Summer of Chillicothe, and the reserve champion gilt […]
(Missouri Independent) – Teachers, school administrators, and advocacy groups on Wednesday laid out for a state commission a long list of grueling conditions they say drive educators out of the industry. At the third meeting of the Teacher Recruitment and Retention Blue Ribbon Commission — created by the State Board of Education — testimony focused on low […]
A rollover crash Wednesday in Gentry County injured an Albany resident four miles west of Stanberry. Twenty-five-year-old Noah Wilmes sustained moderate injuries and was taken by ambulance to Mosaic Medical Center in Albany. The pickup was westbound when Wilmes failed to negotiate a curve and ran off the right side of Highway 136, struck a […]
An elderly resident of Bucklin was injured in an accident on Wednesday afternoon three miles north of Marceline. Eighty-seven-year-old Patsie Hughes was seriously injured and taken by private vehicle to Samaritan Hospital in Macon. The pickup was driven by 91-year-old Charles Hughes of Bucklin. The driver lost control on a wet Highway 36, causing the […]
A teenager from Independence was arrested Wednesday afternoon following an accident in Cameron that injured him and his passenger. The passenger, 20-year-old Naomi Mariano of Independence, was seriously injured and taken by EMS to Cameron Regional Medical Center. The driver, 18-year-old Israel Mariano of Independence, received minor injuries and was treated and released from the […]
(Missouri Independent) – Witnesses in a Tuesday hearing detailed to a U.S. Senate committee how investors and stagnant wages are driving an eviction and housing crisis across the U.S. The chair of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, said that families are being priced out of buying homes, and […]
(Missouri Independent) – Major U.S. agricultural production groups are pulling together their requests for the next farm bill — the massive legislation that Congress rewrites every five years to set farm and food policy — with crop insurance and disaster assistance on the top of their lists. A panel of executives from farm groups detailed […]
U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark on Tuesday sentenced a convicted felon from St. Louis to more than 10 years in prison on gun charges. Judge Clark sentenced Terrell Gunn, 43, to eight years and seven months in prison on a 2022 charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and two more […]
U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry on Tuesday sentenced a St. Louis man who escaped the St. Ann, Mo. jail last year to 15 years in prison. Walter J. Wilson Jr., 39, was convicted by a federal jury in March of an escape charge and a charge of being a felon in possession of a […]
A man from Missouri on Wednesday admitted embezzling $854,544 from his employer via a series of schemes since 2017. Ryan S. Kent, 44, of Festus pleaded guilty in front of U.S. District Judge John A. Ross to a felony wire fraud charge. He admitted that while a maintenance supervisor at a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in […]
U.S. District Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk on Wednesday sentenced a Missouri man to 16 years and eight months in prison for using Snapchat to trick a boy into sending him child pornography. In 2019, Martin Dwayne Isaia Mitchell, of Macon County, set up a fake Snapchat account in which he pretended to be female and then […]
Results have been announced from the Dairy Cattle and Dairy Goat shows at the Lucerne Stock Show on August 3rd. InDairy Cattle, the Holstein champion was shown by Case Melzer, the Guernsey champion was shown by Gretchen Dickerson, the Brown Swiss and Ayrshire champions were shown by Adeline Dickerson, and the Jersey champion was shown […]
In August 2nd’s Primary Election, Mazzie Boyd of Hamilton won the Republican nomination for Second District State Representative. Boyd says she was humbled that voters elected her as the Republican nominee. Boyd will face Lois Pontius in the November election. Pontius was unopposed in the Democratic Primary for the Second House District. Boyd […]
The Grundy County R-5 Board of Education will hold a tax rate hearing before its regular meeting next week. The hearing will start at the high school on August 10th at 6 pm. The proposed rate is $5.9207. The board will consider approval of eligibility criteria for free and reduced lunches at the meeting at […]
The Kirksville Police Department has identified the person killed in a fire on July 29th that has been investigated as an arson/homicide. Forty-two-year-old Belinda Garrett of Kirksville died at the scene of the fire at a home in the 500 block of West Mary Street. Two juvenile suspects were taken into custody. They are only […]
The City of Laredo will hold a hearing regarding proposed property tax rates next week. The hearing will be at Laredo City Hall on August 8th at 5:30 pm. This year’s proposed rate totals 99.76 cents per $100 of assessed valuation. That includes 69.83 cents for general and 29.93 cents for streets. The assessed valuation […]
The Grundy County Delinquent Tax Sale will be held at the courthouse in Trenton later this month. The Collector-Treasurer’s Office, reports that, as of August 2nd, there are 99 properties to be offered on August 22nd at 10 a.m. Of those properties, 45 are at Leisure Lake, and 35 are in Trenton. There are 10 […]
Life Options Green Hills Pregnancy + Health Center is pleased to introduce Linda Marshall as their Nurse Manager. Mrs. Marshall oversees and facilitates all of the medical services Life Options provides. Marshall shares, “I am honored and excited to take on the role of Nurse Manager. I look forward to reaching out, educating, and supporting […]
U. S. Marshals are offering an award for a Kirksville man wanted for murder. A post on the Adair County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page is offering a reward for 38-year-old Jesse Rongey of up to $5,000. He has been wanted since July 22nd. Multiple law enforcement agencies have been searching the Youngstown Trail area since […]
One man was sentenced to life in prison, and another was sentenced to 15 years with the Missouri Department of Corrections in Linn County Circuit Court on August 2nd. The Linn County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office reports Kenneth Dean Harper was sentenced to life in prison on eight counts of first-degree statutory sodomy, life in prison […]
