(UPDATED) – Stockyards Expressway was shutdown Tuesday morning after a semi took a turn too sharp causing some issues.

Doug Loehner with the St. Joseph Police Department said around 7:30 a.m. the 43-year-old man driving the semi tried to make a turn onto US-759 in the 2700 block but turned too tight and hit a support which took one of the semi’s tires of the wheel and knocked down a power line.

Originally the report the semi had been believed to have ruptured a gas main.

“They thought the gas main was hit but it was not it was air coming out of the tire,” Loehner said.

Southbound traffic was diverted at Oak and Hickey streets for about an hour.

The driver was issued a ticket for improper method of turn.

 

In a legal notice published last week, the St Joseph School District announced it will be accepting bids on eBay for the Thomas Kinkade painting “City by the Bay.” The district’s Chief Financial Officer Beau Musser says there are a few reasons for the sale.

“First and foremost the district is looking at assets district-wide that we no longer have a use for, and we’re looking at disposing of those,” Musser said in an interview.

“Obviously, the painting was noted in state audit report, and is really no use for educational purposes, and so we just thought we might be able to get our money back by putting it out to the public for sale.”

Musser says the painting could very well prove to be a good investment.

“I have a friend in town, a local lawyer, who is the one who originally approached me, and he said we’re going to get a lot more than what we paid for it. His estimate was $5,000, so that’d be fantastic.”

Musser says he’s been approached by several people who are interested in buying the piece.

“First off, it’s obviously a decent little painting for a Kinkade with a nice frame, but, it’s for better or worse, a part of St Joe history, with everything that’s surrounded the turmoil with the St Joe School District.”

Find out more about the painting and the auction here.

A Ravenwood man was arrested for drunk driving and other charges after a crash north of Maryville sent his two passengers to the hospital with serious injuries.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report indicates a single-vehicle accident occured shortly after 3am Sunday on Ideal Road north of Maryville. According to the report, a Honda SUV driven by Daniel Baumli left the roadway, hit a driveway, went airborned and overturned.

Two passengers suffered serious injuries. The patrol identified them as Johnathon Riley of Bedford, Iowa and Lukas Riley of Polo, Missouri. Both were transported to SSM Healthcare in Maryville.

Mr Bauli refused medical treatment at the scene of the accident. He was arrested by the patrol and taken to the Nodaway County Law Enforcement Center on a 24 hour hold.

The arrest report lists charges of DWI, careless and imprudent driving, and felony assault, but by Tuesday morning no charges appeared in online court records.

A teenager from Gladstone, Missouri was killed in a fiery crash on Interstate-35 Monday. The Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report says 17-year-old Anna Bishop lost control of her vehicle along the interstate northeast of Lathrop.

The vehicle hit a ditch, careened up an embankment, overturned multiple times, and then burst into flames. Ms Bishop was ejected in the crash. She was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. – A resurfacing project scheduled for Interstate 29 in Andrew and Buchanan counties has been delayed again, due to weather.

Contractors working with the Missouri Department of Transportation had planned to begin milling and repaving I-29 between Business Route 71 in Andrew County and 1.5 miles south of Route O in Buchanan County on Monday, July 27, but weather delays on other projects have once again pushed the start date back. The contractor hopes to be able to begin milling and repaving in the northbound lanes on Wednesday, Aug. 19. All work is planned to begin no earlier than 6 p.m. each evening, after peak travel times, and should be completed each day by 6 a.m. One lane in each direction will remain open.

The on and off ramps will also be resurfaced throughout this section of interstate. Every effort will be made to keep all ramps open during the work, but some closures may be required to ensure the safety of both motorists and workers. If a ramp closure is planned, advance notice will be provided.

A man was taken to the hospital with minor injuries Monday morning after a one vehicle crash in Andrew County.

According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, 41-year-old Matthew Schmille of Amazonia was driving a 2004 Chevrolet Cavalier southbound on Route T about five miles south of Savannah around 8:30 when the vehicle went off the east side of the road and hit an embankment.

Schmille was taken by ambulance to Mosaic Life Care for treatment of minor injuries.

The vehicle was reported to be totaled.

 

A 65-year-old Chillicothe man has been charged with five counts in connection with a child sex investigation.

Harold L. Hamrick was charged Friday with two counts of Statutory Sodomy, one count of Attempted Statutory Rape, and two counts of child molestation, all felonies. Online court documents show the charges range in dates from 2003 to 2011.

According to the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office an investigation of alleged child sex offenses began in February of this year.  Friday, Hamrick surrendered to the sheriff’s office.

The LCSO said it worked with the Child Advocacy Center and State Technical Assistance Team on the investigation.

Hamrick is being held on $500,000 cash bond in the Daviess Dekalb County Regional Jail.

 

Gasoline prices are falling at the fastest rate since January due to cheaper crude oil costs and the resolution of some refinery issues. That’s the word from the driving club AAA, which reported the national average price of gas has dropped for 16 days in row for a total of 11 cents per gallon.

The national average price of gas was just over $2.59 per gallon Monday morning, which is the lowest average for this time of year since 2009.

Gas prices averaged $2.75 per gallon in July, which was the lowest average for the month since 2010. The national average has dropped about 14 cents per gallon since hitting a 2015 high of $2.80 on June 15.

The statewide average in Missouri for a gallon of regular no-lead gasoline was $2.406. That’s more than a penny cheaper than the day before, six cents cheaper than a week ago, 16 cents cheaper than a month ago, and about 87 cents cheaper than the average last year at this time.

The average price in St Joseph is about 13 cents more than the statewide average at $2.539.

The average across Kansas was slightly higher than $2.44/gallon.