Authorities continue their search for a weekend kidnapping suspect in Caldwell County.

Brian Adkison faces a felony kidnapping charge in the disappearance of his ex girlfriend, 23-year-old Lauren Crawford of Hamilton.

He was last seen wearing a Fox Racing T Shirt, Plaid Shorts and Flip-flops driving a white four door Chevrolet truck.

Crawford reported to her family Sunday she was safe in a Boone County Hospital.  Local investigations went to the hospital to confirm that she was there.   She was reported missing on Saturday.

The suspect is known to frequent the area of Boone, Caldwell and Camden Counties.

Anyone with informationis asked to contact the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office at 816-586-2681

 

Gas prices are slowly falling, yet St Joseph Transit is once again offering free rides on National Dump the Pump Day this Thursday.

Bus transportation service, “The Ride,” will offer free rides Thursday on regular route’s in St Joseph.

Route deviations will cost 50cents. Dump the Pump day started in 2006 encouraging people to ride public transportation to save money.

The American Public Transportation Association reports individuals in a two-person household can save an average of more than $9,700 annually by downsizing to one car.

An Interim police chief is in charge in Cameron following the resignation of Chief Corey Sloan last week.

Cameron City Manager Mark Gaugh announced Friday Sergeant Rick Bashor will hold the Interim position. He’s been with Cameron’s Police Department since 1996.

Bashor has received the Northwest Missouri Valor Award and was the Cameron employee of the year in 2011. 

The City Manager says Bashor’s law enforcement training is extensive, and he is anxious to meet the challenges of his new position.

 

Three Andrew County roads remained closed Monday due to flooding.

MoDOT reported the closures Monday morning. Route 48 is closed from county Road 149 to County Road 169 at Rosendale.  Route B is closed from US-71 Highway to Bolckow. Route C is closed at Route 48.

All three roads are closed due to flooding along the One Hundred and Two River.

Road closures are updated constantly on the MoDOT Travelers information map. Find it at here.

Authorities checked more than 600 motorist during a DWI checkpoint over the weekend in Clay County, resulting in 14 DWI arrest.

676 cars rolled through the checkpoint Saturday evening at the interchange of I-29 and US 169 in Clay County.

Highway Patrol Troop A commanding officer Captain Robert Powell says the checkpoint was held from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. Gladstone police assisted the Highway Patrol, which also arrested three for misdemeanor drug charges, one for drug paraphernalia and another arrest on a misdemeanor warrant.

Captain Powell stated, “Statistics indicate every two hours and thirty minutes someone in Missouri is killed or injured in an alcohol-related crash. The goal of DWI enforcement projects is to deter impaired driving and to make citizens aware that drinking and driving will not be tolerated.”

The checkpoint was conducted in memory of Clifton J. Scott, of MoDOT. Scott was killed last September while assisting Independence Police along Interstate 70.

Three were taken to the hospital Sunday after a Polaris UTV accident in Davies County.

52-year-old Driver, Joyce Eads, was driving along Route B east of Coffey.

The vehicle dropped off the side of the road, and when the driver tried to get back on the roadway the 2013 Polaris overturned. The driver, along with 29 year-old Jena Eads and 8-year-old Hailey, were taken to Wright Memorial Hospital with moderate injuries.

32-year-old passenger Brandon Eads refused treatment.

The accident occurred just before 8:00pm Sunday evening, according to the Highway Patrol.

A group of northeast Kansas residents is working to keep a high-voltage power line system away from their farms.

The so-called Grain Belt Express developed by Clean Line would transmit about 3,500 megawatts of electricity along 600 kilovolt lines from wind farms in southwest Kansas to Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. The project still needs state approval.

The group of residents started a petition at Change.org arguing Kansas should keep its wind energy in the state and that Clean Line should be required to bury its power lines.

Clean Line estimates the project will create about 5,000 construction jobs and 500 long-term operations jobs. The company also says exporting wind energy is similar to exporting cattle or wheat and buried lines are more expensive.