Area residents may see Emils Lejnieks at their door soon. Emils is a college student from Latvia and is staying in Wellsville trying to raise money for tuition and provide educational books to families. He was a featured guest on AM 1340 KXEO and the Am I Awake Morning Show with Matt Pilger today.
The Kansas City Southern’s Holiday Express train will make a stop in Mexico this (Wednesday) afternoon. The stop will let visitors board the train and visit with Santa and his elves and tour the inside of three cars of the festive six car train. It is the 18th Annual Holiday Express train. It will make…
The NCAA Infractions Appeals Committee has decided to uphold sanctions against the University of Missouri’s athletics program in relation to an athlete tutoring scandal. In a statement from the NCAA, the committee said that MU’s argument that the sanctions were far more than those in cases similar was nullified by a lack of compliance system…
ARRESTS: Mexico Public Safety reports the arrest of 24 year old Matthew M. Bradshaw yesterday (Monday) for First Degree Trespassing and Resisting arrest. CALLS FOR SERVICE: Mexico Public Safety responded to the following calls for service yesterday (Monday): A suicidal subject on Venus. Multiple reports of stealing or thefts at Curtis, North Jefferson, Coal, South…
The Mexico Bulldogs boys basketball team put up a 72-54 victory over Quincy Notre Dame at the SuperFan Shootout at the Quincy, Illinois Notre Dame High School on Saturday, Feb. 8,2025. Mexico hit nine three pointers as a team. Kaden Benne made six- three pointers on his way to a 26 point performance and was…
The Mexico High School boys basketball team has earned the number one seed in the Class 4 District 8 Boys Basketball Tournament that will be played at the Moberly High School March 3-7. The seeds were announced following the seeding meeting on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. Hallsville comes in as the 2 seed. Games kick…
International Migratory Bird Day is tomorrow (Saturday) and one Mexico business owner will join a worldwide Facebook Live broadcast. Mel Toellner, owner of Goldcrest Distributing in Mexico and Songbird Station in Columbia, will join Environment Americas Susan Bonfield tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 10:00 for a growing group of bird enthusiasts. Part of the broadcast will…
