A 16-year-old girl from Bolckow, Missouri escaped with minor injuries after a single-vehicle rollover crash south of Savannah Wednesday morning. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says Alesha Knoth lost control of her S.U.V. along Business-71 highway, two miles south of Savannah at 7:14 a.m.

The vehicle left the roadway, hit an embankment and overturned, coming to rest on its side.

Ms Knoth suffered what were described at the scene as minor injuries, and was transported to Mosaic Life Care for treatment.

“Hometown Hall-of-Famer” Roger Wehrli says it’s not about the players. It’s about the schools where they learned to play football. Wehrli should know. He’s a five time All-Pro defensive back for the St Louis Cardinals and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Wehrli got his start at King City High School, playing for Coach Dick Flanagan. At a ceremony Thursday morning, Mr Wehrli will be part of a ceremony honoring the school as part of Ford Motor Company’s “Home Town Hall-of-Famer” program.

“We’ve already received the honors, we’ve been inducted into the Hall of Fame,” Wehrli says in an interview. “This program is about the high schools that gave us our start, and giving something back to them, so they can have something there at the school, and a plaque that the kids can look at as they’re coming through school.”

“Hopefully it will remind them of what can be achieved. If they’ll just put their mind to it and give themselves a good work ethic, do their best in school, there’s no telling what they can achieve later in life.”

Wehrli says he was not expecting to continue playing football after high school.

“I played all the sports in high school, and really, expected to probably play basketball,” Wehrli says. A good showing at the state track meet during his senior year may have sealed the deal.

“At the end of my senior year of high school, I got some offers about football, but I wasn’t highly recruited at all. Mizzou gave me one of the last scholarships that were available.”

Wehrli made a name for himself fairly quickly at Mizzou. He started as a sophomore, and was drafted by the St Louis Cardinals. He was selected to the NFL’s Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2007.

Wehrli will be on hand to honor King City High School at a ceremony Thursday, at 10 a.m., at the school (300 North Grand Ave. in King City).

The ceremony could very likely be featured in a Ford commercial during a future NFL broadcast.

(Update 4:56 p.m.) – A Savannah man reported missing was found injured Wednesday afternoon in Andrew County.

The Savannah Police Dept. had been searching for 47-year-old Tony Snodgrass who was reported missing after he left his home Monday evening and no one heard from him.

Chief David Vincent said Snodgrass was located by family members out in the county.  He was found with non-life threatening injuries and transported to Mosaic Life Care for evaluation.

The police department is continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding his disappearance.

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(2 p.m.) – The Savannah Police Department is asking the public for help in finding a man who went missing earlier this week.

Authorities are searching for 47-year-old Tony Snodgrass.

“He was depressed when he left the home so we’re worried about his safety for that reason,” said Chief David Vincent. “He left his house on Monday evening and was supposed to be going to Ray, Mo. and never showed up and no one has heard from him since.”

The Savannah Police Department sent the missing persons flyer out to the media Wednesday in an effort to ask the public for help in locating Snodgrass’s whereabouts.  He was last seen in a green 1994 Ford Ranger pickup.

Anyone with information is asked to call dispatch at (816) 324-4114.

PLATTE COUNTY – Crews have closed Route 45 between Farley, MO and 45 Spur following a train derailment which happened Tuesday, May 10.

The Kansas Department of Transportation said at least six to seven cars carrying timber left the tracks. Several pieces of large equipment have been brought in to remove the timber. It has been estimated to take up to two days to completely remove it.

Motorists should use the following alternate route: Route 45 to I-435 to Route 92 and back to Route 45.

BNSF Railway said 12 cars on a train derailed in northwest Missouri. No one was injured.

Investigators are trying to determine what caused the derailment Tuesday evening in Platte County near Farley.

BNSF spokesman Andy Williams said seven cars went off the tracks and overturned, while five went off track but remained upright. They were part of a train with 88 cars and three locomotives heading from Lincoln, Nebraska, to Kansas City, Missouri.

Williams said none of the cars contained hazardous materials.

He said the cars were put back on the track early Wednesday and operations will resume after the tracks are inspected.
(AP and KDOT)

A crash blocked traffic in downtown St Joseph Wednesday morning.

St Joseph police say one person suffered injuries in the three-vehicle crash at Sixth and Felix Streets. The accident took down a utility pole in the area.

The accident was first reported shortly before 8:30 a.m., and by about 9:20 the roads had reopened.

The nature and extent of the injuries were not immediately available.

A 16-year-old girl was hospitalized after her SUV left a Daviess County road and overturned down an embankment. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says Alexes Latimer of Hamilton escaped with minor injuries.

According to the crash report, Ms Latimer was driving along 210th Street about half a mile south of Yale Ave. in Hamilton at 5:46 p.m. when she failed to negotiate a 90-degree curve.

The Mitsubishi Montero came to rest on its driver’s side along the south side of the roadway. Latimer was transported to Cameron Regional Medical Center.