A DWI Saturation held in Clinton County over New Year’s led to several arrests and warnings.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol said the saturation was held from 7 p.m. on December 31, 2015, to 3 a.m. on January 1, 2016. During this enforcement operation, seven officers patrolled Clinton County with a goal of detecting impaired drivers and other traffic violations that contribute to traffic crashes. As a result of the operation, there was one arrest for driving while intoxicated, 16 traffic citations issued, five misdemeanor warrant arrests, and 42 warnings.

“Impaired driving poses a significant threat to motorists on Missouri’s roadways,” said Captain James E. McDonald, commanding officer Troop H, St. Joseph. “One of the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s highest priorities is removing the impaired driver from our roadways. If drinking is part of your plans, choose a sober designated driver.”

(UPDATE) – Three people were taken to the hospital in St. Joseph Monday afternoon after a two vehicle crash.

Officer Brendan McGinnis with the St. Joseph Police Department said emergency crews responded to the area of 169 and Leonard Road around 1:10 p.m. for a two vehicle crash.

McGinnis said Deborah Sackman, 48 of St. Joseph was driving a Silver Chevy Impala and traveling south across 169, ran a red light and hit a Gray Chrysler 300 driven by Ian Mann, 28 of Gower traveling eastbound on 169.

Sackman and a 50-year-old Wisconsin man who was a passenger in her vehicle were taken by ambulance to Mosaic Life Care for treatment of minor injuries.  Mann was also transported for minor injuries.

Sackman was issued a ticket for violation of signal causing crash.

Traffic was tied up in that area for around 45 minutes.

St. Joseph Museums is putting golf skills into play with an interactive addition to its exhibits.

Visitors will be able to explore all of the exhibits at the St. Joseph Museums with the aid of a miniature golf course. The course will be located inside the Museum galleries, with eighteen unique holes built by area businesses. Visitors to the Museum will be able to play the course from January 16 through March 1, 2016.

The museum said the original mini-golf holes are custom-designed for the course and reflect the Museum’s collection and represent the wide range of goods and services available in St. Joseph.

“We are very grateful to our sponsors. They’ve all shown great creativity in designing miniature golf holes that represented their business while incorporating aspects of the Museum’s collection. We expect to draw families, couples, and groups of friends and to introduce them to our exhibits as they play this unusual course,” said Sara Wilson, the Museum’s president and executive director.

Visitors to the St. Joseph Museums, 3406 Frederick Avenue, can play the mini-golf course from January 16 through March 1, during regular hours. The Museums are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday through Saturday and from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday. The price per round is $2 per person with paid admission.

The kickoff for the Museum Miniature Golf Marathon will be held the evening of Friday, January 15, 2016, beginning at 5:30 p.m. The event is $35 per person, which includes drinks and hors d’oeuvres Reservations are required. Call 816-232-8471 or visit www.stjosephmuseum.org for more information.

All interstates in Missouri are now open to traffic after being closed because of flooding along the Mississippi, Missouri and Meramec rivers. In the St. Louis area, Route 21 and Route 30 remain closed at the Meramec River and Route 141 is still closed at I-44 and at Route 21. More than 100 state roads still remain under water throughout the state.

Click the image for MoDOT’s Traveler Information Map, located at www.modot.org, or call the department’s toll free number, 1-888-ASK-MODOT, to get updated information on road conditions.

Amtrak service between St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri is operating again, now that floodwaters have subsided. Amtrak officials say the service resumed Sunday, four days after high water that reached the tracks at some locations forced the passenger service to be halted.

Just three days after ascending to record levels and forcing hundreds of people from their homes, the Meramec River in suburban St. Louis is already back below flood stage in Pacific and Eureka, but remains four feet above flood stage in Valley Park and problems persist in Arnold. The Mississippi is receding in Cape Girardeau, after cresting Friday night at 48.9 feet, about four-tenths of a foot above the 1993 record.

The number of fatalities in the state of Missouri due to flooding has risen to 15 with the recovery on New Year’s Day of the body of a man in Polk County, just downstream from where a motorist was swept away by flood water on December 26.

A suburban St. Louis water plant shut down by flooding is working again. The water plant at High Ridge, Missouri had been out of operation since Wednesday. It began operating again Sunday morning, though residents are being told to continue to boil water before drinking it or cooking with it as purification efforts aren’t yet at normal levels. The plant serves about 20,000 people in an area south of St. Louis in Jefferson County.

(Staff and wire reports)

A crash in Holt County Sunday evening injured three people.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report indicates one pickup truck was disabled and stopped in the roadway along Route-P two miles north of Fortescue.

Another pickup rammed into the rear of the stalled truck shortly after 6pm Sunday.

An occupant in the disabled truck, 23-year-old Shahana Hall of Fairfax, suffered moderate injuries and was transported to Fairfax Community Hospital.  Both drivers suffered minor injuries, but were not transported to the hospital.