Monroe County Recognized For Zero Fatal Traffic Crashes In 2022 Monroe County joins three other northeast Missouri counties with no fatal traffic crashes in 2022. At the Monroe County Commissioners’ meeting at the Monroe County Courthouse on March 6th, Corporal Justin Dunn with the Missouri State Highway Patrol and Amy Crawford with the Northeast Coalition…… Continue Reading
Death Investigation Underway In Monroe County A death investigation is underway at the Monroe County Jail in Paris. According to reporting by WGEM, the death occurred yesterday (Wednesday) and the Missouri State Highway Patrol is investigating the death. We will have more on this developing story as it becomes available. More In Monroe County Most…… Continue Reading
Mexico Man Injured In Monroe County Accident A Monroe County accident yesterday (Tuesday) morning outside of Santa Fe seriously injures a Mexico man. The report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol indicates that 23-year-old Rayone D. Evans served to miss a deer, overcorrected and ran off the right side of the road and struck an…… Continue Reading
Train Derailment in Paris More information is being learned about the train derailment in Paris yesterday (Tuesday) morning. According to the accident report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, it happened at 11:01 when a westbound Norfolk & Southern locomotive operated by 52-year-old Anthony L. Colley of Moberly struck a northbound unoccupied 2018 Kenworth tractor…… Continue Reading
High Speed Internet Coming to Hundreds in Monroe and Randolph Counties Over 600 residents, eight businesses, and 94 farms in Monroe and Randolph counties will soon have access to high-speed internet. According to a press release by Missouri State Director of the USDA, Kyle Wilkens, Chariton Valley Telephone Corporation is receiving a $2.2 million grant…… Continue Reading
O’Connor Arrested for Making Armed Threats in Monroe City Stephanie L. O’Connor, 48, of Monroe City is being held in the Randolph County Jail without bond after an incident Tuesday afternoon. Police say they were called to a report of a woman with an AR-15 style rifle and a bag of ammunition, behaving in an…… Continue Reading
Three Cars Pile Into a School Bus Tuesday One driver failed to stop and piled three vehicles into the back of a school bus near Madison on Tuesday afternoon. The bus was dropping off passengers on eastbound Highway 24. Angela Mesmer, in a Buick, was stopped behind the bus, and Ronald Davis, in a Malibu,…… Continue Reading
Man Wounded by Monroe County Sheriff’s Deputy was Carrying a Sword Austin Leigh, 41, from Council Bluffs, Iowa, the man shot by a Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputy last Saturday, was intoxicated and actively involved in a domestic altercation at a residence on Highway 15, south of Paris. A probable cause statement said Leigh began…… Continue Reading
Monroe County Trooper Gets Promotion A Macon native is being promoted within the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Trooper Keegan E. Kindle is assigned to the Randolph and Monroe counties zone for Troop B and effective August 1st will be the corporal for that same zone. Kindle began his Patrol career July 1, 2015 and has…… Continue Reading
Paris Man With Moderate Injuries in Monroe County Accident A Paris man is recovering from moderate injuries following a one car accident in Monroe County yesterday (Wednesday). According to the Missouri Highway Patrol it happened when 70-year-old Robert L. Hattey was driving his 2015 Toyota Rav 4 and went off the side of the road…… Continue Reading
