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 April 3 – 9 from the Missouri Department of Transportation. In addition to the work listed below, there may be pothole patching, bridge maintenance, striping, 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. All scheduled maintenance and construction projects are subject to change with weather conditions.

 

Andrew County

• U.S. Route 71 – From Business U.S. 71 (Nodaway County) to Route B for pothole patching, April 3 – 7

Atchison County

• U.S. Route 136 – From one-half mile east of Route O to one half mile east of Route M for culvert work, April 3 – 7
• U.S. Route 136 – CLOSED from Route O to Titan Avenue for a culvert replacement, April 5, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• U.S. Route 136 – CLOSED from Route U to Route M for a culvert replacement, April 6, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Buchanan County

• Interstate 229 – Sweeping and flushing bridges, April 3 – 6
• U.S. Route 36 – At the 11^th Street Overpass Bridge for maintenance, April 3 – 7
• Route 116 – From the city limits of Rushville to U.S. Route 169 for chip sealing, April 3 – 7

Caldwell County

• U.S. Route 36 – From Route P to Route 13 for slide repair work, April 3 – 7

Carroll County

• U.S. Route 65 – From U.S. Route 36 (Livingston County) to Route J for sweeping and flushing bridges, April 3 – 4
• U.S. Route 65 – CLOSED at the railroad crossing in Tina for crossing repair, April 4, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
• Route OO – From Route E to County Road 248 for drainage work, April 4 – 5

Chariton County

• Route Z – CLOSED from Route M to Topeka Avenue for a culvert replacement, April 3, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Route Z – CLOSED from Topeka Avenue to Schlueter Avenue for a culvert replacement, April 4, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Clinton County

• Route C – CLOSED from SE 228^th Street to 222^nd Street for a culvert replacement, April 4, 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

DeKalb County

• Route J – CLOSED from Route 6 to U.S. Route 36 for a resurfacing project, April 3 – 8. The road will be closed in one to two mile segments at a time throughout the project.
• Route O – CLOSED from Route 31 to Route N for a resurfacing project, April 3 – 8. The road will be closed in one to two miles segments at a time throughout the project.
• Route A – Sealing, April 3 – 7
• Route C – Pothole patching, April 3 – 7

Gentry County

• U.S. Route 136 – From U.S. Route 169 to Route F for pothole patching, April 3 – 7

Grundy County

• U.S. Route 65 and Route 6 – Pothole patching, April 3 – 7
• Route U – CLOSED from SW 80^th Street to County Road 505 (Livingston County) for a culvert replacement, April 3, 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Route A – CLOSED from NW 90^th Street to NW 95^th Street for a culvert replacement, April 5, 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Route NN – CLOSED from Route O to NE 58^th Street for a culvert replacement, April 7, 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Harrison County

• Route Y – CLOSED from East 322^nd Avenue to West Main for a culvert replacement, April 3, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Route B – CLOSED from Route A to East 222^nd Avenue for a culvert replacement, April 4, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Holt County

• Route 113 – Pothole patching, April 3 – 7

Linn County

• U.S. Route 36 – Flushing bridges, April 3 – 7
• U.S. Route 36 – From Route 11 to Route 5 for pavement repair, April 3 – 7

Livingston County

• Route U – CLOSED from SW 80^th Street (Grundy County) to County Road 505 for a culvert replacement, April 3, 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• U.S. Route 65 – From U.S. Route 36 to Route J (Carroll County) for sweeping and flushing bridges, April 3 – 4
• U.S. Route 65 – At the Grand River Bridge for maintenance, April 3 – 7

Nodaway County

• U.S. Route 71 – From Route FF to Hawk Road for drainage work, April 3
• U.S. Route 136 – From Katydid Road to Route F for drainage work, April 3
• U.S. Route 71 – From Business U.S. 71 to Route B (Andrew County) for pothole patching, April 3 – 7
• U.S. Route 136 – From Route 48 to Route 46 for shoulder work, April 3 – 7
• Route V – From Glacier Road to Galaxy Road for drainage work, April 4

Putnam County

• Route CC – CLOSED at the South Branch Shoal Creek Bridge for a bridge replacement project. The bridge will be closed through May 2017.

Worth County

• Route 46 – From Route NN to Route D for patching and sealing, April 3 – 7

The Buchanan County Prosecutor’s Office is holding several events in light of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.

This year’s NCVRW runs April 2nd to the 8th.  Jenn Moden is a paralegal for the prosecutors office and an organizer for events surrounding the week in Buchanan County. She said this year’s theme is strength, resilience and justice.

“Every year in April the office for victim’s of crime hold a tribute to our victims’ that we’ve lost in our communities and the people who work with victims,” Moden said. “Strength, resilience and justice just reflects the vision in the future that all victims are strengthened by the response they receive, organizations are resilient in the responses to the challenges, and communities are able to seek collective justice in healing.”

Moden said the prosecutor’s office is always collaborating with a organizations in St. Joseph to assist victims.

“Whether it be immediate services in emergency situations or throughout the whole process of the case that they’re having to be faced with,” Moden said. “It’s a huge collaboration effort on everybody’s part.  It’s not just one individual working with victims. We want to make sure that they get they help that they deserve.”

Events are planned throughout the week in St. Joseph for NCVRW.  The schedule is as follows:

Monday, April 3- 6 p.m. Zumba and Pound Night

• Instructors: Missy Carvell and Jamie Davis
•  Please bring hygiene items for the YWCA or monetary donation to purchase pinwheels for the Pinwheel Campaign
• Turning Point Church: 5211 Frederick Blvd, St. Joseph, Missouri

Wednesday, April 5- 5:30 p.m. Crime Victim Memorial Balloon Release

•  Riverfront Park by the Remington Nature Center
•  Music, speaking and remembering our victims’

Friday, April 7- 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Crime Victims’ Breakfast

• RSVP

Saturday, April 8- 7:00PM Chance to Dance

•  Central High School: 2602 Edmond, St. Joseph, Missouri
• Annual Fundraiser presented by the Dance Arts Center for the benefit of the Northwest Missouri Children’s Advocacy Center

Few people are expected to turnout but it’s no April Fools’, the Buchanan County Courthouse is open for absentee voters.

County Clerk Mary Baack-Garvey said the courthouse will be open April 1 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. for absentee voting.  Baack-Garvey said she is expecting few if any people to turnout. The municipal general election is April 4. There are no issue or candidate elections in St. Joseph, but there are a few in rural parts of Buchanan County.

Tuesday, Baack-Garvey’s team will count ballots from just six polling places, in mostly rural school-district and village elections.

*Voters in Gower will select a mayor in the election, as well as two members of the board of the Gower Fire Protection District.
*Voters in the East Buchanan C-1 school district and the Buchanan County R-4 school district will select members for their school boards.
*The Village of Agency will select two members for its board of trustees.
*The Platte County R-1 District hopes to borrow $6.2 million to fund a new junior high school and some roof repairs, and they’re asking for the voters’ okay.
*There are no candidates on the ballot in Lewis & Clark Village, where they’re hoping to fill two seats on the Board of Trustees.

“The predicted turnout, I’m thinking as of right now, we won’t hit double digits,” Baack-Garvey said. “I’m HOPING we hit 10% turn out.”

Polls are open Tuesday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.

 

(Update 1:55 p.m.) – A St. Joseph man has been taken into custody after a standoff in an east-side neighborhood.

Shorty before 9 a.m. Friday Capt. Jeff Wilson with the St. Joseph Police Department said officers responded to the area in reference to a domestic assault after a woman allegedly texted 911 for assistance.

“At the time we responded they attempted to make contact with the occupants of the house. The house was closed up and the subject barricaded inside the house,” Wilson said. “Some information came in that there may possibly we weapons inside the house so we had SRT team come in.”

A woman eventually came out of the house located in the area of Basil Drive and Carol Drive (near Frederick and Riverside Road). Police continued negotiations with a man inside. More than four hours after police arrived on scene SRT breached a window of the home and took a  36-year-old man into custody. No injuries were reported.

Erica Moss lives in the duplex next door to the home surrounded by police.  She said she had gotten her older children onto the school bus and had gone back to sleep with her baby when she got a call from a private number shortly before 10 a.m.

“It was the police department telling me they were cops and that they needed to get me out of the house.  As soon as I walked out of the hallway they were right there,” Moss said. “They made sure that we were shielded to my car and got out of here.”

Police are continuing to investigate.

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(Update 12:30 p.m.) – St. Joseph police blocked off streets in an east-side neighborhood and could be heard urging a man believed to be inside to answer his phone or come outside.

The standoff began Friday morning near the crossing of Basil Drive and Carol Drive (near Frederick and Riverside Road).

Erica Moss lives in the duplex next door to the home surrounded by police.  She said she had gotten her older children onto the school bus and had gone back to sleep with her baby when she got a call from a private number shortly before 10 a.m.

“It was the police department telling me they were cops and that they needed to get me out of the house.  As soon as I walked out of the hallway they were right there,” Moss said. “They made sure that we were shielded to my car and got out of here.”

Moss said she saw the woman who lives inside the home barricaded by police get out safely.

Around 12 p.m. officers were still on scene. Speaking through a bull horn, officers outside urged the suspect to exit the home through a garage door, or to answer his phone. Officers said they had a warrant for his arrest.

Officers from the St. Joseph Police Department joined members of the Special Response Team in blocking off the area.

Speaking through a bull horn, officers outside urged the suspect to exit the home through a garage door, or to answer his phone. Officers said they had a warrant for his arrest.

A woman appeared in court Friday charged with burglary based on DNA testing of blood found at the crime scene.

Linda Sue Pennell is already serving prison time in Chillicothe for her conviction on stealing charges two years ago. On Friday, the 34-year-old Gallatin woman appeared in Buchanan County court.

Pennel is charged in connection with a home burglary in the 3000 block of Olive Street in St. Joseph in August of 2014. A window and back door were forced open.

St. Joseph Police said in court documents that they found blood inside the house, and a DNA test showed a match with the defendant.

Associate Circuit Judge Rebecca Spencer scheduled a preliminary hearing April 11. Pennell will apply for a public defender

A northwest Missouri K-9 is now a little safer after a gift of a bullet/stab resistant vest.

Cipo is a patrol canine for the Missouri State Highway Patrol and works alongside Sgt. Mark Wilhoit in Troop H.  Sgt. Jake Angle said Cipo is trained in handler protection, narcotics detection and tracking.

“In the course of those duties in any given day he’s put in harms way. Tracking fugitives, searching cars and protecting Mark while he’s out doing his duties every day,” Angle said.

Donna and Jim Wilson with the Going To the Dogs Foundation donated a bullet/stab resistant vest to the patrol for Cipo Thursday morning. Donna said the vest costs around $1,000 and only weighs about 5 to 7 lbs.  She said they have been trying to donate vests to K-9 dogs in numerous law enforcement agencies.  Since last year the agency has donated around 10 vests.

“My goal is the Missouri State Highway Patrol has 10 canines throughout the entire state of Missouri,” Donna said. “My goal is that every canine will get a vest.”

Earlier this month, a K-9 was shot and killed on duty in Wichita, Kan.  Donna said she’s hoping the vests can help to prevent that from happening to other canines.

“It broke my heart and believe me that’s going to be a city that I’m going to reach out to,” Donna said. “What we need from the public is we just ask for your support so we can continue our mission to make sure that vests are put on these dogs.”

Sgt. Angle said they consider Cipo to be an officer on duty.

“Anytime we can add another level of protection for one of our officers it’s a benefit,” Sgt. Angle said. “With this generous donation today it’s just another level of protection we have for our canines and we can’t express our appreciation enough.”

For more information on the Going to the Dogs Foundation CLICK HERE.

A St. Joseph man is accused of threatening a woman in Andrew County with a shotgun after trespassing on her land.

Logan Daniel Cordonnier is charged in Andrew County with felonies for first-degree assault or attempt, armed criminal action, and unlawful use of a weapon.  He’s also charged with a misdemeanor of trespass on real property.

According to court documents, a woman was on her way to work Wednesday on Route K when she saw a vehicle parked along side the road in front of her and her husband’s salvage yard.

“She turned around and pulled in front of the vehicle, seeing 3 people running and jumped into the vehicle.  The vehicle took off turning onto County Road 375,” said Deputy Joel Cook with the Andrew County Sheriff’s Department.

When they pulled into a driveway, the woman allegedly blocked them in with her vehicle.

“The driver, (Logan Cordonnier) pointed a shotgun out the window,” Cook said. “Said he was going to shoot and kill her if she didn’t back off.”

Cordonnier then allegedly drove off and the woman tailed them into St. Joseph where the St. Joseph Police Department pulled the vehicle over.

“I arrived at 9th and Mitchell where St. Joseph PD had the vehicle stopped.  I obtained the shotgun from St. Joseph Police Officer Wall with 7, 12 gauge slug rounds that were in the gun at the time,” Cook said.

Bail for Cordonnier has been set at $35,000. A court date was not yet listed on online documents.