City employees in Saint Joseph are gradually returning to normal duties after nearly three months of fighting the flood.
Mayor Bill Falkner says street maintenance took a back seat this summer as an enormous number of man-hours went into containing high water on the Missouri River that began in June.
Falkner says street crews will earn some overtime working Saturdays this fall to catch up on maintenance before cold weather hits.
A Maryville building collapsed Thursday morning.
Emergency personnel responded to a wall collapse at a Maryville bar around 8 a.m. on north Main Street.
No one was inside the building when the south wall collapsed into an alley. The building houses a Maryville bar called The Pub.
The bar was closed after it exchanged owners and was undergoing remodeling. It was set to open by the beginning of next year.
Conservation agents in northwest Missouri this summer issued citations for illegal fishing methods to several noodlers who were grabbing large catfish from natural cavities under banks. This was in small, easily-waded streams.
Conservation Agent Eric Abbott made arrests on the Tarkio River in Atchison County where the river was only 20 yards wide but noodlers possessed flathead catfish topping 40 pounds.
“It’s sad because most of the folks doing this don’t realize they’re taking the brood fish and that it takes many years for these fish to grow that size,” Abbott said. “The fishery cannot stay healthy when those fish are taken year after year.”
Congressman Sam Graves says he’s concentrating on small business during this “district work period.” The chairman of the House Small Business Committee wants to know what’s stopping business from expanding and adding jobs.
Graves says business owners are stymied by uncertainty over healthcare, taxes, energy, and in especially over-regulation. Graves says he sees no signs that the President will address any of those concerns in his upcoming economic speech.
Graves says this administration has made a habit of imposing by regulation what it can’t get passed as legislation. The Northwest Missouri Republican says over-regulation is a big drag on economic recovery.
The five-term Congressman talked with listeners on the 680-KFEQ Hotline Wednesday morning, hosted a town hall meeting at the Missouri Theater, and met with flooded farmers and government officials in Holt County.
Charges were filed Wednesday morning in last week’s murder of a St Joseph man.
A 16 year old male was charged in juvenile court with class A second degree felony murder.
Because the man charged is a minor, the name has not been released. The 16 year old is charged in the shooting death of Brian Ullmer on North 16th Street in St Joseph last week.
Captain Kevin Castle of St Joseph’s Police department says the adult also taken into custody yesterday was not charged and was released pending the investigation.
A tip lead police to the arrest in St Joseph Tuesday
Two themes surfaced in a meeting Tuesday between U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill and area flood stakeholders: the Corps of Engineers mismanaged this year’s flood event, and they should pay for levee repairs.
McCaskill fielded questions and heard comments from authorities in Atchison, Buchanan, Holt and Nodaway counties.
She said the Corps won’t acknowledge the alleged mismanagement, and reminded officials that now is not the best time to ask for more money from Washington.
Among those asking for it was Hold County Clerk Kathy Kunkle who says local levee districts cannot afford levee repairs, and may not have time to finish them before next spring.
Kunkle cited one levee district that is faced with 16 separate breaches. She says repairs will cost about $2.5 million. Under terms of their cost-sharing arrangement, the levee district must come up with 20% of that, or $500 thousand. They currently have about $25 thousand in the bank.
“Every property in that district, every farm, every household is under water. They don’t feel like they can incur that 20% match locally,” Kunkle told McCaskill.
McCaskill vowed to investigate ways to bring non-qualifying levee districts into the Corps’ funding formula. She says such levees have never before received federal money.
A car that wouldn’t stop for police was stopped by a light pole in Saint Joseph this morning. Officers say they did not pursue after the driver failed to stop earlier in the evening. Then shortly after 2 this morning the car hit a utility pole at 26th and Duncan.
The driver fled and is still being sought. He left behind an injured female passenger, who was taken to Heartland with injuries that were not considered to be life-threatening. KCP&L was called to deal with the broken pole. The incident is still under investigation.
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St Joseph police have arrested two suspects on investigation in connection with the fatal shooting of Brian Ullmer during a home invasion robbery August 22.
Captain Kevin Castle says one adult male and one juvenile male were taken into custody during execution of a search warrant at a home in the 16-hundred block of South 11th Street. They have not been charged.
Ullmer was shot and killed by one of three suspects during an attempted robbery in Ullmer’s home at 214 N. 16th.
Castle calls it the “tip of the iceberg” in their ongoing investigation, but it does show they’re making progress.
He says they still hope you’ll contact them if you have information that could help detectives. Call the TIPS hotline, 238-TIPS if you have information about the homicide.
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