The winner of the St. Joseph Post 2015 Trails West!® festival button giveaway has been announced.

Angie Dozier won two free buttons good for entry to the three day festival.

The 2015 arts and entertainment festival runs from August 21-23 in Civic Center Park in St. Joseph.

Taking the stage Friday night is Starship featuring Mickey Thomas, a 1980’s favorite. Saturday night starts with up and coming country artist Kelsea Ballerini, who opens for The Charlie Daniels Band. Sunday features Sanctus Real, a Christian rock band.

Admission to the festival is by souvenir button or 2015 Trails West! ® t-shirt. The buttons, good for admission to all three days of the festival, are $8 in advance and $10 at the festival gates.

Check back next week for a chance to win two Kansas City Chiefs tickets to the Aug. 28 game.  Details for that competition will be announced sometime Monday.

Three people were taken to the hospital Wednesday after a two vehicle crash in Andrew County.

According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, 24-year-old Phillip Barnes of St. Joseph was driving a 1999 Ford F-150 northbound on Route K around 1:58 p.m. when 45-year-old Heather Norton of Massachusetts made a left hand turn onto route K from Maxwell Road in her 1996 Oldsmobile Ciera and failed to yield.  Barnes’ vehicle ended up hitting Norton’s vehicle on the passenger side.

Two passengers including a child in Barnes’ vehicle were taken by ambulance to Mosaic Life Care.  22-year-old Danielle Shade was transported with moderate injuries and a 3-year-old girl was also taken with minor injuries.  Norton was also transported to Mosaic with moderate injuries.

 

Three adults and an infant received medical treatment after a crash Monday in Cameron.

According to the Cameron Police Department officers responded to the intersection of Washington St. and Clay St. for an unknown-injury accident.

After arriving on scene they found a man trapped inside of a vehicle.

A vehicle driven by Felicia P. Martin was traveling southbound on Washington Street when it struck the rear end of a vehicle driven by Daniel D. Leatherman. Police said a passenger in Martin’s vehicle, identified as Gabriel Martin, had become trapped under the dash and was unable to get out of the vehicle.

Felicia Martin, Gabriel Martin, and Leatherman were taken by ambulance to Hedrick Medical Center for evaluation. An infant in Martin’s vehicle was transported via private vehicle to Hedrick Medical Center for evaluation. Leatherman was reported with a head injury while Gabriel Martin had reported an injury to his back. Felicia Martin reported an injury to her left arm.

Both vehicles were towed due to disabling damage.

Felicia Martin was issued tickets for following too closely resulting in an accident and failing to maintain financial responsibility.

The city of St. Louis is taking several very expensive steps after the Supreme Court of Missouri struck down the city’s red-light camera ordinance. Officials in St Joe, where a similar program has been shut down for months, say the ruling won’t change anything right away.

St Louis officials say the city will refund roughly $5.6 million to motorists who paid red-light camera tickets over the past year and a half. The city immediately halted the red-light camera program and dismissed pending cases.

Officials say they are considering the best way to pay back the money and to mull creating a new red-light camera ordinance that passes legal muster.

Refunds only will go to motorists who paid tickets since Feb. 14, 2014. Anyone who paid a ticket before then was eligible for a class-action settlement amounting to about $20 per ticket.

Officials in St Joseph say the city’s cameras, installed at the Belt and Cook Road, and at the Belt and Frederick, will remain turned off as officials study the ruling and the ordinance.

(Staff and wire reports)

State Senator Rob Schaaf has repeated his pledge to block any attempt to make bond payments for a new football stadium in Saint Louis…unless the bonds are approved by the legislature or a vote of the people.

The Saint Joseph Republican says that is a warning to anyone who might consider buying those bonds.  “The bond issuers have a fudiciary duty to notify potential bond-buyers that legislators are planning to block the appropriation,” Schaaf said.

Schaaf and senator Ed Emery of Lamar say they are both willing to filibuster, if needed, to keep that debt from being paid. Supporters of the nearly $1-billion stadium say it’s needed to keep the Rams in Saint Louis, or to attract a new team if the Rams move back to Los Angeles.