(Update) – A child playing with gasoline and a lighter started a fire that destroyed a garage and a car and damaged a house in Savannah. Firefighters confirm the youngster was sent initially to Mosaic Life Care with injuries sustained in the fire.
Savannah Police Chief Dave Vincent said authorities arrived Saturday just after 6 p.m. to a garage fire in the 500 block of Price Street.
Crews from the Savannah Fire Department battled the fire for about an hour and a half.
Vincent said the mother reported that her child said he was playing with gasoline and a lighters. The child suffered some burns and was transported to Mosaic Life Care with unknown injuries.
The garage and a vehicle parked behind it were totally destroyed and there was some exterior damage reported to the home.
Vincent did not have an age of the child readily available. Also, he said at this time the fire is not considered to be under investigation.
A fire in Albany, Missouri Sunday destroyed most of a business there.
The blaze caused extensive damage at GHS Paper Tube and Core Manufacturing in Albany. U.S. Highway 136 was closed for several hours during firefighting efforts.
Authorities say the nearby HyVee grocery store was threatened by the fire.
As a precaution, electrical power was shut down at the HyVee and other businesses near the fire near the north city limits of Albany.
We have no reports of any injuries. An investigation continues.
From Lincoln to Lynchburg, smoke from Canadian wildfires is coloring skies gray.
According to the Web site wildfiretoday.com, fires in Canada, primarily the 387,000-acre blaze at Fort McMurray, Alberta, sent smoke into Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the central United States, and many areas in the eastern U.S.
Comments on the Web site noted “thick and smelly smoke” in southeastern Nebraska, and smoky skies in the Nebraska panhandle. A number of people in Savannah, Sheridan and Mound City, Missouri reported the smoke as well.
The smoke was thick enough to force organizers to cancel a performance by the Blue Angels at the Lincoln Air Show on Saturday. They were able to perform on Sunday.
Two motorcyclists from Missouri were injured in a crash east of Perry, Kansas Saturday night.
The Kansas Highway Patrol says Sarah Nixon of Long Lane, Missouri sideswiped a van with her Harley Davidson on a curve along U.S. Highway 24 at about 9 p.m. Saturday. Another Harley, driven by Paul Nixon of Long Lane then hit her bike from the rear.
Both motorcyclists suffered what were described as disabling injuries. Mr. Nixon, 35, was taken to the University of Kansas Medical Center. Ms Nixon, 33, was taken to Stormont Vail HealthCare in Topeka.
Three people were hurt in a crash in Clinton County Saturday evening.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol says one driver failed to yield to another at the exit ramp from I-35 to U.S. Highway 69 at about 6:42 p.m.
The victims were transported to Cameron Regional Medical Center with minor to moderate injuries. They were identified as 17-year-old Katelynn Dimes of Excelsior Springs, 69-year-old Loretta Batchelar of Bettendorf, Iowa, and 84-year-old Dorothy Phillips of Braymer, Missouri.
A crash between two ATVs in Rushville Friday night sent three people to the hospital with serious injuries.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the crash happened when both vehicles were turning left off of Missouri Highway 116 onto 7th Street in Rushville. An ATV left the roadway and overturned multiple times, ejecting all three victims.
Holly Grable, 24, Whitney Judah, 22, and Michael Mayhew, 24, all of Rushville, were transported to Mosaic Life Care. All three were treated and released.
Roughly one in six people living in Buchanan County are affected at any given time by the activities of a team tasked with enforcing child support orders. The group has surpassed all other counties in the state in total collections for at least the last decade.
Prosecuting Attorney Dwight Scroggins says the Child Support Enforcement Unit handles around 5,000 active cases at any given time. That’s five thousand parents ordered to pay child support, plus five thousand parents expecting to receive those payments, plus at least five thousand children, and likely a lot more.
“They go in the system, they get off, they go back in the system. We get a lot of repeat offenders,” says unit director Melinda Graff. “We also get a lot of new people when they’re just starting out with their child-support orders that get into that criminal system pretty quickly.”
That’s borne out by numbers from the unit’s in-house genetic testing services, showing 450 new orders and modifications established by office staff last year.
Dwight ScrogginsThe Buchanan County unit leads the state year after year in total collections. Mr. Scroggins says in 2015 they collected $12.7 million in past due child support payments, or just over one million dollars a month.
“Generally speaking, we maintain pretty much the number one position, in all apples-to-apples comparisons to level one, two or three offices,” he says
The $12.7 million collected last year represents just over half of the total amount owed last year. It’s a slight drop from the $12.8 million collected the year before, and a drop of just under two million dollars from 2008, the best year ever for the office. The total arrearage in Buchanan County was $23 million. The total amount of child support payments in arrears across Missouri last year was $2.47 billion.
Scroggins credits his staff for the success of his office, and singles out the unit’s director Melinda Graff.
“I don’t think there are more offenders in Buchanan County than there are in other places,” Graff says. “I just think that our office works the cases differently, we’re more proactive.”
“If they miss a month, they can be charged with a misdemeanor. We watch arrearages,” Graff says . “If their arrearages that are equal to 12 months of their order they can be charged with a felony.”
In 2015, 394 felony and 431 misdemeanor charges were filed. There are currently 1,400 non-support defendants on probation, and in 2015, approximately 51 non-support defendants were committed to jail or prison.
Another way to get the offenders’ attention involves their driver’s licenses. Graff says there were 125 driver’s license suspensions issued last year, with mixed results. “What we find is that a lot of our offenders don’t have driver’s licenses,” she says, “so there isn’t a license to suspend.”
But Scroggins says a lot of those defendants need their DLs.
“It is effective with people who are conscious of being at risk of getting stopped and arrested for driving without a license,” he says. “And it’s effective for people whose license is necessary for them to have employment.”
Scroggins says they’ve had to do more with less because of a dramatic reduction in their staff over the last ten years.
“Ten years ago I had 32 people doing child support collection on a very similar type of caseload,” Scroggins says. “I have 17 people doing collections now.”
An event for veterans and their families will be held later this month in St. Joseph.
Vet2Vet will be held at Parkway Christian Fellowship Church, 3004 Pickett Rd., on Saturday May 21st from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for Armed Forces Day.
The Vet2Vet event will include a meet and greet for veterans to connect with service agencies, health benefits, educational and employment opportunities, grants and more.
Col. Edward E. Black, Vice Commander of the 139th Airlift Wing, and, Missouri Western ROTC Vader, Dallas Thomas, will speak on “Gratitude towards Veterans.”
There is no charge to either participate as a vendor or attend the event as a guest. Any business or organization that would like to reach out to the veteran population is welcome to showcase their product/services at no charge.
In addition, there will be a bouncy house, face paintings, music by DJ’s, free haircuts, displays of military and emergency equipment and food.
The organization said donations are being collected. Things like unscented body lotions, hair brushes and combs, deodorant, shaving cream, nail clippers, quad track razors, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, new underwear and socks, basic cleaning supplies, and non-perishable food items. All items will be distributed to veteran families.
Items can be dropped off prior to the event at various locales around St. Joseph. Drop off locations are: Salvation Army office, St. Joseph Youth Alliance, Meierhoffer Funeral Home and Crematory, Missouri Western State University, the St. Joseph Community-Based Outpatient Clinic, Apple Market locations on Pear Street and Frederick and Belt and Anderson Ford and KIA.
MARYVILLE, Mo. – Northwest Missouri State University’s Office of Student Involvement and the Student Activities Council has announced its schedule for the 2016 Summer Movie Series.
Ten movies make up this year’s series, which is free and open to the public. Movies are shown each Tuesday night, May 17 through July 26, with the exception of Tuesday, July 5.
Show times are 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Movies in May and June will be screened at the Ron Houston Center for the Performing Arts; July showings will take place in the Charles Johnson Theater at the Olive DeLuce Fine Arts Building.
Dates, movies and film ratings appear below.
May 17: “Zootopia” (PG)
May 24: “The Good Dinosaur” (PG)
May 31: “Allegiant” (PG-13)
June 7: “Zoolander 2” (PG-13)
June 14: “Finding Nemo” (G)
June 21: “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2” (PG-13)
June 28: “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” (PG-13)
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. – The following is a listing of general highway maintenance and construction work in the Northwest Missouri region planned for the week of May 9 – 15 from the Missouri Department of Transportation. In addition to the work listed below, there may be pothole patching, bridge deck washing, striping, brush cutting, guardrail repairs and other road work conducted throughout the region. Many of these will be moving operations and could include lane closures with delays.
Andrew County
Route Y – CLOSED from County Road 17 to County Road 29; culvert replacement, May 10, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Atchison County
Route N – CLOSED at the East Fork of the Little Tarkio Creek Bridge; bridge replacement project. The road will be closed through mid-June.
Buchanan County
Interstate 229 – Pavement repair, May 10 – 12. May include overnight lane closures.
I-229 and U.S. Route 36 – Sweeping and flushing bridges, May 10 – 12
Route DD – At the Jenkins Creek Bridge; bridge maintenance, May 10 – 13. Includes a 10-ft width restriction.
Route H – From Route E to Route FF; pothole patching, May 10 – 13
Caldwell County
Various routes – Striping, May 10 – 13
U.S. Route 36 – From Route A to Route 13; shoulder work, May 13
Carroll County
Route J – From Route YY to U.S. Route 65; pothole patching, May 12
Route M – Pothole patching, May 13
Chariton County
Route C – From Route 11 to Route 5; pothole patching, May 10 – 11
Route M – From the Carroll County line to Route 11; pothole patching,May 10 – 11
Route 5 – From U.S. Route 24 to Route E; pothole patching, May 12 – 13
Route 139 – From Route RA to Route TT; pothole patching, May 12 – 13
Daviess County
Route N – From I-35 to U.S. Route 69; pothole patching, May 10
Various routes – Striping, May 10 – 13
Route C – From I-35 to Route 13; pothole patching, May 11
Route E – From U.S. Route 69 to Route B; pothole patching, May 12
Route KK – From U.S. Route 69 to the end of state maintenance; pothole patching, May 13
Gentry County
Route AA – CLOSED from Route E to 380th Road; culvert replacement,May 10 – 11, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. daily
Route H – From U.S. Route 136 to one mile south of U.S. Route 136; drainage work and driveway entrance repair, May 10 – 11
Route Z – CLOSED from Route A to 540th Road; culvert replacement,May 12, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Route N – At County Road 290; drainage work, May 12 – 13
Grundy County
Route V – CLOSED from Route E to West 3rd Street; culvert replacement, May 10, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Route 6 – At the No Creek Bridge; bridge maintenance, May 10 – 12, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. A temporary traffic signal will be in place during working hours.
Route V – CLOSED from Route E to 50th Street; culvert replacement,May 12, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Harrison County
Route CC – CLOSED from U.S. Route 136 to 320th Avenue; culvert replacement, May 10, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Route HH – From Route 46 to Route O (Worth County); pavement repair, May 10
I-35 – Northbound from mile marker 110 (near Eagleville) to the Iowa state line; pavement repair, May 10 – 11
Route N – At the I-35 bridge; bridge maintenance, May 10 – 13. A flagger will be in place to direct traffic through the work zone.
Route CC – CLOSED from East 320th Place to East 330th Street; culvert replacement, May 11 – 13, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily
I-35 – CLOSED at the southbound weigh station at mile marker 110.4; pavement repair, May 12, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Holt County
I-29 – Southbound from the city limits of Mound City to the Nodaway River Bridge; pothole patching, May 10 – 11
I-29 – Northbound from the city limits of Mound City to the city limits of Corning; pothole patching, May 11 – 12
Linn County
Route 11 – CLOSED from Nile Drive to Nevada Road; culvert replacement, May 10, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Route O – CLOSED from Route 5 to Second Street; culvert replacement,May 11, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Livingston County
Route V – From the city limits of Chillicothe to Route K; chip seal, May 10 – 12
Route K – From U.S. Route 65 to Route V; pothole patching, May 13
Nodaway County
Route JJ – CLOSED at the One Hundred and Two River Bridge; bridge replacement project. The bridge will be closed through the end of June.
Route AC – CLOSED; pothole patching, May 10 – 12, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.daily
Route OO – CLOSED; pothole patching, May 12, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Route WW – CLOSED; pothole patching, May 13, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Putnam County
U.S. Route 136 – From Unionville to the Schuyler County line; flushing bridges; May 10 This will include lane closures and slow moving vehicles. Please use extreme caution.
U.S. Route 136 – From Unionville to Lucerne; flushing bridges; May 11
Route KK – CLOSED from 220th Street to 227th Street; culvert replacement, May 11, 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Route KK – CLOSED from 220th Street to 223rd Street; culvert replacement, May 12, 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sullivan County
Route 129 – CLOSED from Talent Road to Table Road; culvert replacement, May 10, 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Route 129 – CLOSED from Safari Road to Sunrise Road; culvert replacement, May 11, 7 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Route 129 – CLOSED from Sunrise Road to Route C; culvert replacement, May 11, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Route 129 – CLOSED from Sunrise Road to Route C; culvert replacement, May 12, 7 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Route 129 – CLOSED from Route C to Haven Drive; culvert replacement,May 12, 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Route 129 – CLOSED from Polo Road to Harvest Drive; culvert replacement, May 13, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Worth County
Route HH – From Route 46 (Harrison County) to Route O; pavement repair, May 10
Route B – From Route W to Route 46; pavement repair, May 11 – 13
(Update) – A child playing with gasoline and a lighter started a fire that destroyed a garage and a car and damaged a house in Savannah. Firefighters confirm the youngster was sent initially to Mosaic Life Care with injuries sustained in the fire.
