Three people including an infant received minor injuries Sunday in a crash just south of Maryville.

According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Justin Cronk, 21 of Maryville was driving a 1992 GMC Pickup eastbound around 2:38 p.m. at US 71 and route U.  Chealsea Ashford, 23 was driving a 2014 Ford northbound.  The crash report said Cronk failed to yield to Ashford and hit the left side of her vehicle.  Cronk was taken with a minor injury by private vehicle to St. Francis Hospital.  Ashford and her infant daughter were taken by ambulance to St. Francis for minor injuries.

UNIONVILLE, Mo – U.S. Route 136 in Unionville has reopened. Structural issues in a brick building at the corner of U.S. Route 136 and 16th Street in Unionville prompted the closure late last week between 15th and 16th Streets.

Crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation worked with local emergency responders to divert traffic around the closure. Crews were able to reopen the route after it was determined there was no danger to the traveling public.

Two men have died after a head-on crash on I-49 in Cass County, Missouri.

A crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol indicates that Shannon Hemingway, a 38-year-old Kansas City, Missouri man, was driving north in the southbound lanes of I-49.

Mr Hemingway’s Oldsmobile crashed head-on into a Ford driven by Clinten Fields, 26, of Butler, Mo.

The crash happened on I-49 at North Cass Parkway shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday.  Both men was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash.

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 Feb. 1 – 7 from the Missouri Department of Transportation. In addition to the work listed below, there may be pothole patching, 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. Due to the possibility of winter weather, planned maintenance and construction activities are limited as crews prepare to treat and plow roadways.

MoDOT reminds the public to stay alert, watch for road work and snow plows, buckle up, slow down, and drive with extreme caution through work zones and in changing winter weather conditions.

Caldwell County

• U.S. Route 36 – Westbound from Ponderosa Road to NE Sunset Road; slope repair, Feb. 1 – 2

Carroll County

• Route 41 – CLOSED at the Wakenda Chute Bridge; bridge maintenance,Feb. 1 – 5, 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. daily

Daviess County

• Interstate 35 – From Route T to Route AA/H; shoulder work, Feb. 1 – 5

Linn County

• U.S. Route 36 – From the Macon County line to Route 11; pothole patching, Feb. 1 – 5

On Thursday, February 11, 2016, the Black Archives Museum of the St. Joseph Museums will host Greg Olson, Missouri State Archives curator of Special Exhibits and Special Projects. He will give a presentation on early St. Joseph, Missouri, history and the topic of his new book Jeffrey Deroine: Ioway Translator and Frontier Diplomat. Olson’s previous books include The Great Walker: Ioway Leader, The Ioway in Missouri, and Noble Savages, Voodoo Priests and Ozark Gypsies: The Life of Folklorist Mary Alicia Owen. The event also features the opening of newly renovated Black Archives Museum exhibits on the history of African Americans in Buchanan County and an exhibit on the Folklore of Mary Alicia Owen.

The life of Jeffrey Deroine was an amazing journey. He was a slave of St. Joseph founder Joseph Robidoux whose freedom was eventually purchased by an unknown person after a lengthy court battle. He spoke 12 languages and was a skilled translator and a signer of the Platte Purchase Treaty. He even traveled to the courts of Europe with 14 Ioway Indians where he met royalty, politicians, and other distinguished people. Olson’s book on Deroine is part of the nonfiction book series, Notable Missourians.

Olson has also written about Mary Alicia Owen, another interesting historical figure from St. Joseph. Owen was a folklorist who recorded African, European, and Native American stories in the 19th Century. Her work illustrates the diverse intermingling of cultures that happened when St. Joseph was located at the edge of civilization and the western wilderness. The new interactive exhibit, “The Folklore of Mary Alicia Owen”, focuses on the importance of storytelling and includes an area for children to perform their own puppet show. Significantly, the St. Joseph Museums has received a temporary loan of Sac and Fox items collected by Owen in the late 1800s for the exhibit. These beautiful examples of Sac and Fox culture will be on display for one year due to their fragile nature. The items are on loan courtesy of the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.

“A tremendous amount of collaboration and research has gone into the creation of these new exhibits,” said Sara Wilson, Executive Director of the St. Joseph Museums. “The connections we have made in the present and with the past have been unbelievable. As we were curating the exhibit, we learned that our Board Member Gary Wilkinson’s great-great grandmother, Charlotte Harvey escaped as slave from St. Joseph and crossed the Missouri River to White Cloud, Kansas, near the Iowa Reservation. His great-great grandfather, Amos Stillman served as a member of the United States Colored Troops in the Civil War. Jeffrey and Mary Alicia’s St. Joseph was incredibly diverse, where African slaves, Native Americans, and early European settlers came together and created amazing stories.”

The event will be held at the Black Archives Museum of the St. Joseph Museums Inc., 3406 Frederick Avenue. It is open to the public and admission is free. Copies of Greg Olson’s books will be available for purchase. A reception will be held beginning at 5:30 p.m. and the program will take place at 6:00 p.m.

St. Joseph, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) invites Missouri waterfowl hunters to upcoming public workshops where Department staff will gather hunter input about duck season dates and zone boundary locations for the 2017-2020 hunting seasons. Two workshops are upcoming in northwest Missouri.

A waterfowl season workshop is scheduled 7 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 3, at the MDC Northwest Regional Office, 701 James McCarthy Drive, in St. Joseph. The office is on the campus of Missouri Western State University. For information, call 816-271-3100.

MDC will hold a waterfowl season workshop 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 4, at the Carrollton Public Library, 1 N. Folger St. For more information, call 660-646-6122.

Hunter input at workshops and hunter opinion surveys will be used to help establish Missouri’s 2017-2020 duck season dates and zones.

“The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gives states the opportunity to change the number and location of duck zones every five years,” explained MDC Resources Scientist Andy Raedeke. “At these times, states can also select a continuous season or split season, which refers to a season that is open for a period of time, closes, and then reopens for a second period of time.”

Hunters may review information about the state’s waterfowl migrations, harvest, weather patterns and hunter preferences at http://on.mo.gov/1giLHme.