Police are investigating after a juvenile was injured in a stabbing Sunday night.

According to Sgt. Steve McClintick with the St. Joseph Police Department, the incident was reported in the area of 13th and Frederick shortly after 11 Sunday night. The juvenile injured in the stabbing and two other adults with him were uncooperative with officers and not many details are available.

The juvenile reported he and others were walking when they passed by another group of people walking. Words were exchanged and the juvenile reported a white male who was bald, wearing glasses and a black hoodie pulled out a knife.

The juvenile was treated by EMS for non-life threatening injuries.

Police are still investigating the incident.

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 Dec. 4 – 10 from the Missouri Department of Transportation. In addition to the work listed below, there may be pothole patching, shoulder work, bridge maintenance, striping, brush cutting, mowing, 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.

MoDOT reminds the public to stay alert, watch for road work, buckle up, slow down, and drive with extreme caution through work zones and in changing weather conditions.

For more information about a project, please contact MoDOT at 1-888-ASK-MoDOT (888-275-6636) or visit modot.org/northwest. You can also follow MoDOT’s Northwest Missouri District on Twitter @ModotNorthwest and on Facebook at facebook.com/MoDOTNWDistrict.

Andrew County

• U.S. Route 71 – Pothole patching from Route B to Route U (Nodaway County), Dec. 4 – 8

Buchanan County

• Interstate 29 – The northbound I-29 ramp to northbound I-229 will be CLOSED for bridge repair, Dec. 4, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Route 116 – Shoulder work from U.S. Route 59 to Route E, Dec. 4 – 8

Carroll County

• U.S. Route 65 – Drainage work from County Road 120 to County Road 130, Dec. 4 – 6

Clinton County

• Route 33 – CLOSED for a culvert replacement from Route PP to Horseshoe Lane, Dec. 4 – 8, 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily. A temporary traffic signal will direct traffic overnight.

Gentry County

• U.S. Routes 136 and 169 – Shoulder work, Dec. 4 – 9

Harrison County

• Route 46 – Shoulder work, Dec. 4 – 8
• U.S. Route 69 – Shoulder work one mile south of U.S. Route 136, Dec. 5 – 6

Holt County

• Route 118 – The ramp from Route 118 to southbound I-29 is CLOSED for the Davis Creek Bridge replacement project through mid-December.
• I-29 – Bridge replacement project at the Davis Creek Bridge near Exit 84. I-29 will be narrowed to one lane in each direction. This includes a 12-foot width restriction. The lane closures will remain in place through mid-December.
• I-29 – Pavement repair southbound from mile marker 99 (Corning Exit) to mile marker 84 (Mound City), Nov. 27 – Dec. 2

Linn County

• U.S. Route 36 – Pavement repair westbound from Route F to Route 11, Dec. 4 – 5. This includes an overnight lane closure.
• Route FF – CLOSED for a culvert replacement from Gas Road to Gold Road, Dec. 5, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• U.S. Route 36 – Pavement repair eastbound from Route 11 to the West Yellow Creek Bridge, Dec. 5 – 6. This includes an overnight lane closure.
• U.S. Route 36 – Sealing and pothole patching eastbound from Route F to Route 5, Dec. 6 – 7
• Route P – CLOSED for a culvert replacement from Hyde Road to Hacker Road, Dec. 8, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• U.S. Route 36 – Sealing and pothole patching westbound from Route 5 to Route F, Dec. 8.

Mercer County

• U.S. Route 136 − CLOSED for a bridge replacement project at the Muddy Creek Bridge. The road will be closed through February 2018.

Nodaway County

• U.S. Route 136 – Shoulder work one mile south of the city limits of Ravenwood, Nov. 4
• U.S. Route 71 – Pothole patching from Route B (Andrew County) to Route U, Dec. 4 – 8
• Route 46 – CLOSED at the Nodaway River Bridge for maintenance, Dec. 4 – 8, 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily.
• U.S. Route 71 – Signal and intersection work at Main Street in Maryville. Most work will be off the roadway, but there may be some lane closures with flaggers at the intersection, Dec. 4 – 8

An honors class on human rights will host Missouri Western State University’s first Human Rights Fair this week.

Class members and student organizations focused on human rights will present informative displays on several issues, including domestic violence, sex trafficking, forced labor, health care, child marriage, child homelessness and environmental degradation.

According to a press release, the fair is a commemoration of Human Rights Day, which is celebrated on Dec. 10 each year, honoring the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Dec. 10, 1948.

This year, Human Rights Day kicks off a year-long campaign to mark the upcoming 70th anniversary of the Declaration, a milestone document that proclaimed the inalienable rights which everyone is inherently entitled to as a human being — regardless of race, color, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. It is the most translated document in the world, available in more than 500 languages.

The Human Rights Fair will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 5, in the Blum Student Union Lobby.

The fair is free and open to the public.

Credit scores can be important for many reasons, but how a score is calculated is often a mystery to some people.

That’s according to Rebecca Lobina with the Northwest Missouri State University Small Business and Technology Development Center.

A credit score is used by banks for loans, but also by insurance companies, landlords and some employers. 

Lobina said there are three credit bureaus and FICO is a consolidation of the three bureau’s scores along with an algorithm FICO uses. With FICO, the credit scores range from 300 to 850. Under 650 is considered poor and above 740 is considered excellent. According to Lobina, the national average is 695.

Lobina said to find out your credit score, you can contact one of the three credit bureaus or you can go through some place such as Credit Karma. Lobina adds it does not affect your score if you pull your own credit report.

Lobina said, no matter what your score is, to keep in mind that you can influence your credit score considerably. There are five main things that all the credit bureaus and your FICO score look at when calculating your score.

“For FICO, 35% of your credit score is based on your payment history, 30% is based upon how much you owe versus how much you could be in debt with, it’s called your utilization ratio,” Lobina said. “Fifteen percent is the length of history, 10% is how much new credit you have and 10% is the types of credit used.”

Lobina said everyone should look at their credit reports a couple times a year.

“It’s so important to so many other aspects of your life when you are looking for a loan or insurance or whatever the case may be or even potentially changing employers,” Lobina said. “You want to make sure that, in this day and age, with identity theft, that the things that are on your credit report are accurate, that they should be on there.”

For more details and information on credit score, contact the Small Business and Technology Development Center at (816) 364-4105 or click here.