A plea hearing is scheduled later this month for a teenager accused of attacking a deputy with a sword and an arrow. Eion Coats was charged with felonies for second-degree assault and resisting arrest, as well as misdemeanor counts of institutional vandalism and making a terrorist threat, after a series of incidents beginning at North Andrew High School in March.

School officials discovered a message on a damaged white board in the boy’s locker room March 21. According to court documents, Coats had admitted to members of his family that he wrote the message and then hit his head on the board. A deputy interviewed Coats at his home in Bolckow That’s when the teenager allegedly attacked the deputy, threatening him with a sword, and stabbing him in the leg with an arrow.

The defendant appeared in an Andrew County courtroom on Monday. His lawyer asked for a continuance. Coats is free on bail pending a change-of-plea hearing before Circuit Judge Daniel Kellogg July 31 at 8:45 am.

A crash in Doniphan County Sunday sent an Iowa woman to the hospital.

A crash report says a pickup driven by Andrea Holldorf, 68, of Grant, Iowa, crashed into a farm tractor hauling a hay baler at 11:10 am Sunday.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Holldorf was transported by ambulance to Mosaic Life Care for treatment after the crash on U.S. 36 Highway near Elwood.

The driver of the tractor was not hurt. The KHP report identified him as Jeffrey Hartman, 42, of Wathena.

Mosaic Life Care has received an honor from the American Heart Association for the way it treats hospital patients who have heart attacks.

The AHA reports that more than 200,000 adults and children have an in-hospital cardiac arrest each year. The “Get With The Guidelines®-Resuscitation Gold Award” is bestowed to those who implement specific quality improvement measures outlined by AHA.

The Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation program was developed with the goal to save lives of those who experience in-hospital cardiac arrests through consistently following the most up-to-date research-based guidelines for treatment. Guidelines include following protocols for patient safety, medical emergency team response, effective and timely resuscitation (CPR) and post-resuscitation care.

Mosaic Life Care received the award for meeting specific measures in treating adult, in-hospital cardiac arrest patients. To qualify for the awards, hospitals must comply with the quality measures for two or more consecutive years.

“Mosaic Life Care is dedicated to helping our patients have the best possible outcome. Implementing the AHA’s Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation program will help us accomplish this. It makes it easier for our teams to put proven knowledge and guidelines to work daily,” said Kim Turner, Director, Intensive Care Unit, Mosaic Life Care at St. Joseph Medical Center.

“We are pleased to recognize Mosaic Life Care for their commitment following these guidelines,” said Paul Heidenreich, MD, MS, national chairman of the Get With The Guidelines Steering Committee and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. “Shortening the time to effective resuscitation and maximizing post-resuscitation care is critical to patient survival.”

Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation builds on the work of the AHA’s National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation originally launched in 1999 and has collected in-hospital cardiac arrest data from more than 500 hospitals. Data from the registry and the quality program give participating hospitals feedback on their resuscitation practice and patient outcomes. Additionally, the data helps improve research-based guidelines for in-hospital resuscitation.

Sheriff Steve Cox announced that Deputy Ryan Ford was promoted to the rank of detective, effective July 1. Ryan has been with the Sheriff’s Office for about five years.

Cox said the detective position became open with prior Detective Jay Cooksey accepted better paying employment elsewhere.

“Ryan has proven his abilities to represent the LCSO well in protecting and serving all citizens of our county,” Cox said. “Ryan is very hard working and diligent with each investigation he is involved with. Ryan has the ability to turn a negative contact into a positive situation while doing his job.”

Livingston County authorities teamed up to rescue a person on a boat having a medical emergency without knowing precisely where they were.

Sheriff Steve Cox said they received a call on Friday afternoon about a group of people that had been floating on the Grand River. One of them had become unresponsive and had possibly drowned.

The Sheriff’s Office, the Chillicothe Dept. of Emergency Services joined the State Fire Marshall’s Office spread out over a large area of the county, basically south of Highway 190. A pilot took to the skies to help locate the group.

“The people with the person having the medical emergency were attempting to give life-saving CPR and help locate emergency responders,” Cox said. “Two deputies located the patient and the Fire Marshall and CDES were also quick to arrive on scene.”

Missouri Department of Conservation Agent responded with a boat to the Chillicothe Boat Ramp to assist but was not needed further. Cox said the remote location of the patient involved a very steep bank and some extensive mud, making it very difficult to rescue the patient. Life Flight Eagle transported the woman to a hospital in Kansas City.

Cox said the family was assisted at the scene and then went to the hospital. In an update on Monday, Cox said spoke with a family member of the patient. The family member reported the adult female patient is doing much better now and the condition has been upgraded but remains in the hospital as of this morning.

The family member was thankful for all the emergency responders and the many thoughts and prayers, which seem to have worked.

Cox said Deputy Dustin Woelfle and Chief Deputy Michael Claypole from the LCSO were completely covered in mud. He commended the entire team for their work in what he called a very difficult situation.