Pavement upgrades will start along I-70 in Callaway County over the next several months starting tonight (Wednesday). MoDOT crews will start with the eastbound lanes going from the Boone/Callaway County line and to Kingdom City. The overall project will include resurfacing the lanes and ramps between Kingdom City and the Callaway/Boone County line. Crews will…
Motorists can expect overnight ramp closures along I-70 in Kingdom City next week. Concrete repairs will have the westbound I-70 exit ramp closed starting Sunday, April 25th, the westbound entrance ramp closed on Monday, April 26th. And the eastbound exit ramp will be closed on Tuesday, April 27th. All closures will take place between 7pm…
An investigation on I-70 this (Wednesday) morning yields two arrests and 100 pounds of marijuana seized. At 10:11, Callaway County K-9 Krieger assisted the Missouri State Highway Patrol on I-70 near the Route M/HH interchange west of Kingdom City. Arrested were 20-year old Anh V. Dinh of Seattle, Washington and 59-year old Lanvu H. Pham…
A Greenville, North Carolina man is facing drug charges after a traffic stop in Callaway County early yesterday (Monday) morning. The stop was made at the US Highway 54-I-70 interchange in Kingdom City. The Callaway County Sheriff’s Department K9 Iro assisted the Missouri State Highway Patrol and 11.1 pounds of marijuana, 235 grams of THC…
Several local McDonald’s restaurants will be saluting veterans today (Wednesday) with free menu items for Veterans Day. The vets will be given free any size soft drink or sweet tea as well as a medium order of fries from 11am until 7pm. Several of the locations include Mexico, Centralia, Kingdom City, Fulton, Moberly, Jefferson City,…
Kylie Nichols the Human Resources Director and Miranda Deimeke a Direct Care Staff member at Missouri Girls Town on AM 1340 KXEO and the Am I Awake Morning Show as the featured local guests to talk about their jobs and upcoming events.
Travelers in the listening area are seeing lower gas prices at the pumps as the weekend arrives. Some of the lowest prices in Centralia with a $1.91 per gallon average. Mexico is checking in at a $2.03 per gallon average. Fulton and Kingdom City at a $2.08 average. According to GasBuddy.com the main reason for…
Two Mexico residents are behind bars after being arrested in Texas. 33-year old Kristian Buegeler and 26-year old Nathaniel Terry were extradited back to Missouri from Texas after leading officials there on a vehicle chase that ended with a manhunt. Buegler and Terry were wanted by the Callaway County Sheriff’s Department in connection with a…
A business license is now approved to test medical marijuana products in Kingdom City and Fayette. The announcement made yesterday (Thursday) that the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services offered licenses to Clear Water Sciences, LLC of Kingdom City and Inovatia AgriTesting Services of Fayette. The testing facilities will make sure marijuana harvested is…
Preliminary information from the Missouri Department of Conservation shows hunters harvested nearly 179 thousand deer during the fall firearms deer season that took place November 16-26. Of the 178,936 deer taken, 91.420 were antlered bucks, 17,237 were button bucks and 70, 279 were does. The top harvest counties were Franklin, Texas and Callaway Counties. The…
A Callaway County judge is sentencing a Mexico man to five years in prison for possession of a controlled substance. According to court records 45 year old Michael Gary Hicken admitted to possessing methamphetamine after a Callaway County Sheriff’s Deputy found Hicken asleep in the driver’s seat of a vehicle that had been parked at…
A Kingdom City woman is recovering from moderate injuries after a one car accident in Audrain County yesterday (Monday) morning. According to the highway patrol it happened just after 6am on US 54 at County Road 856. A car driven by 50 year old Rosalina A. Guthrie went off the road, hit an embankment and…
Week six of Friday night High school football is in the books. Here are some scores from around the area: Mexico fell to Centralia 13 to 10* Blair Oaks shut out Hallsville 35 to nothing* North Callaway took down Bowling Green 22 to 21* Harrisburg defeated Missouri Military Academy 56 to 26* Hannibal dominated Fulton…
The Missouri State Highway Patrol, with assistance of Callaway County Sheriff’s Office K9 Iro, arrested two North Carolina Man last night [Monday] during a traffic stop in Kingdom City. During the traffic stop, investigators found two pounds of marijuana, a stolen gun and $5,300 in cash. Troopers arrested 32 year old Johnathon Kinzer and 31…
The Missouri State Highway Patrol arrested three Georgia residents after a traffic stop in Kingdom City led to the discovery of 9 pounds of marijuana yesterday. [Thursday] The Callaway County Sheriff’s Office says a trooper stopped the vehicle for speeding on Interstate 70 and found 9 pounds of marijuana under the hood of the vehicle….
