CALLS FOR SERVICE:
Mexico Public Safety responded to the following calls for service yesterday (Thursday):
Shots fired at the corner of North Clark and Bourne.
A vehicle break-in at the corner of Rosebud and Fairground.
An assault with no injury on South Clark.
Employees with the city of Columbia may soon be getting a pay raise. The Columbia City Council is looking at several different ways to give raises for city worker, including setting the new minimum wage to fifteen dollars per hour and giving a forty five cent an hour raise to every employee. The potential raises…
The Mexico Bulldogs football team is looking to advance to a district championship game tonight when they battle the St. Charles West Warriors. Mexico is on the road for a second straight week, and comes into the game after taking out Wright City in week one of districts with a dominating 40-6 win. St. Charles…
A state champion wrestler and graduate from Mexico High School is transferring colleges. It was announced yesterday (Tuesday) June 13, 2023 that Dillon Nichols will be attending Drury College in Springfield, Mo for the upcoming school year. State championship winning Mexico High School wrestling coach Gayle Adams says Nichols recently graduated from Northern Illinois University,…
Mexico first responders were called to assist with a natural cover fire in the 2300 block of Fairground Road on Saturday. The issue occurred around 12:25 p.m. when responding personnel found a flame moving quickly through tall, dry grass. The fire was extinguished before damaging any other personal property, but burned about one acre of…
A 52-year-old Mexico man has been charged with First-Degree Harassment, Unlawful Use of a Weapon, Armed Criminal Action and Fourth-Degree Domestic Assault after the Mexico Public Safety Department (MPSD) was dispatched last Thursday to a Mexico home for a domestic disturbance involving a gun. Officers made contact with the suspect, Richard Curtis Casey, as he…
The Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft will be visiting the Audrain County clerk’s office this week. Ashcroft will be in Mexico on Wednesday afternoon at 4 to visit with Audrain County Clerk Lisa Smith. He will also make visits to 5 other county clerk’s office during the week.
