Damage is being reported in several areas after severe storms rolled through on Saturday. According to several reports trees fell in Boone County and surrounding areas. According to a report from KRCG 13 a tree fell on a car on East Worley Street in Columbia, and another tree hit a bus near Woodlawn Avenue. A…
A Hallsville man has serious injuries after a one-car accident in Boone County on Monday, July 24, 2023. According to the Missouri Highway Patrol accident report it happened just before 8pm on US 63 southbound north of Hinton Road. A vehicle driven by 60-year-old John F. Reinkmeyer lost control of his vehicle then traveled through…
The Daniel Boone Regional Library Foundation and the Callaway County Public Library have received the largest single gift in the history of the foundation. The gift comes from the estate of 88 year old Helen Janet Forsee, a regular patron of the library in Fulton. Forsee died in August at a Fulton nursing home. In…
Three Centralia residents have injuries following a two-car accident in Boone County yesterday (Thursday). According to the Missouri Highway Patrol it happened on MO 124 at Lakeview Road. The accident happened when the driver of a vehicle 40-year-old Glenda S. Kirkendoll experienced a medical emergency and failed to stop at a stop sign and hit…
Two people have injuries after a two-vehicle crash in Boone County early yesterday (Monday) morning. According to the Missouri Highway Patrol it happened on Route B, just south of Route HH, when a 16-year-old boy from Hallsville was driving a vehicle north on Route B, swerved into the southbound lanes to avoid hitting a deer…
The eastbound and westbound lanes of I-70 on the Rocheport bridge in Boone County are back open after a multi-vehicle crash happened yesterday (Tuesday). The crash in the westbound lanes was first reported just after 10 am Tuesday morning, and lanes reopened around 3:45 yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon. Traffic was backed up to the 128 mile…
Two teens are dead and four other people have injuries from an early morning shooting yesterday (Sunday) in Boone County. Deputies from the Boone County Sheriff’s office were called to the 2600 block of Oakbrook Drive and found there was a party held at a vacant house that dozens of people attended. According to the…
A six-year-old has died from their injuries following a head-on-collision that happened in Boone County on Wednesday morning. The Boone County Sheriff’s Office announced yesterday (Friday). the male child, was a rear passenger in a 2005 Dodge at the time of the crash in the 7700 block of East New Haven Road. The child was…
The Boone County Sheriff’s Office is identifying the two men who were killed in a head-on-crash Tuesday morning. 34-year-old Steve Drupp of Fulton and 41-year-old Jason Logsdon of Columbia were both pronounced dead at the scene of the crash in the 7700 block of New Haven Road. The sheriff’s office’s preliminary investigation found Drupp’s vehicle…
Columbia Police are identifying a pedestrian who was hit by a tractor trailer and killed early yesterday (Wednesday) morning. A preliminary investigation revealed 36-year-old Brandon W. Lee was walking in the driving lane of northbound U.S. Highway 63, just north of Grindstone Parkway just before 1:30 yesterday (Wednesday) morning, when he was hit by a…
A head-on-collision in Boone County has claimed the lives of two people. The Boone County Sheriff’s Office reports the crash happened around 6:19 yesterday (Wednesday) morning in the 7700 block of East New Haven Road and involved two passenger vehicles. The identity of the two adults killed in the crash have not been released at…
A Sturgeon man has moderate injuries after a accident in Boone County yesterday (Wednesday). According to the Missouri Highway Patrol accident report it happened on MO 763 North of East Brown School Road when a motorcycle driven by 35-year-old Daniel P. Cooke hit a deer in the roadway. Cooke was taken by a private vehicle…
Preliminary numbers from the Missouri Department of Conservation show Callaway as a top harvest county during Missouri’s 2023 spring turkey season. Franklin County was the top county with 973. Callaway came in second with turkey hunters checking 801 birds. Audrain County had a total of 162. Boone with 557. And Montgomery County checked in with…
The former police chief in Sturgeon wins on an appeal. An appeals court yesterday (Tuesday) ruled that the City of Sturgeon didn’t follow the law in 2017 when they fired Greg Halderman. Halderman will keep the $315,000 he was initially awarded. The amount of Halderman’s legal fees that the City of Sturgeon must pay will…
Part of a state highway in Boone County is back open after being shut down for a while yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon. A public alert was sent at around 2:30 yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon saying Route Z was closed north of East Rob Cook Road. A large cloud of black smoke could be seen from the roadway….
