Motorists advised to avoid travel or use extreme caution Thursday morning  JEFFERSON CITY – Motorists should avoid travel if possible in Missouri late Wednesday night and Thursday due to incoming accumulating snow and bitterly cold temperatures. Travel on Missouri’s roads should be restricted to necessary trips only especially Thursday morning. Morning rush hour commutes will…

Kahoka Medical Clinic and its providers and staff will join Blessing Physician Services (BPS) on March 1, 2017. BPS, established in 2005 as part of the Blessing Health System, is a multi-specialty practice group that serves residents of western Illinois, northeast Missouri and southeast Iowa. BPS operates medical offices in Quincy as well as rural…

The National Weather Service in Quad Cities has issued a * Flood Warning for The Des Moines River at St Francisville. * Until further notice. * At 9:15 AM Saturday the stage was 18.2 feet…and rising. * Flood stage is 18.0 feet. * Minor flooding is occurring and is forecast to continue. * Recent activity…An…

  On December 15, 2016 the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office arrested Scott D. Eklofe, age 47, of Ewing, Missouri for stealing fuel from Casey’s General Store in LaBelle, Missouri.  The Sheriff’s Office investigated three separate drive-off’s from Casey’s in December, 2016 and were able to identify Mr. Eklofe.  Mr. Eklofe was released on his own…

“I can remember fun, loving, singing, and eating candy,” Rachel Goldman Miller of Chesterfield, Missouri, told Clark County High School and Middle School students on Thursday, December 1. “ There was so much loving. We sang in French and Yiddish.” Born in Paris in 1933, Rachel was the youngest of four children of Jewish immigrants…

Audrey Moon, a 2008 graduate of Clark County R-1 High School, is part of an Emmy-winning news team at 13 WREX, the NBC affiliate in Rockford, Illinois. The station received a regional Emmy award for Outstanding Achievement for News Programming – Morning Newscast. The specific newscast took place on May 20, 2016 and included two…

HANNIBAL – Weather permitting, Nov. 23, MoDOT crews will have U.S. Route 136 down to one lane between the on and off ramps at the junction of U.S. 136 and MO 27, just east of Wayland, for bridge work. Work will be completed between 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Please use caution if you will…

The voters have had their voice heard. In Clark County, Shawn Webster has been elected Sheriff, crushing his opponents by a wide margin. Webster, a Republican, received 2649 votes, while Democrat Brian Lewis pulled in 421 votes. Independent Chad Hickey received 243 votes. In the Western District Commissioner race, Republican challenger Gary Webster edged incumbent…

On 11-06-2016 at 0125 hours RR3 Box 8-8 in Kahoka, MO. The Kahoka Police Department arrested James Allen Gardner for the following charges: Possession of up to 35 Grams of Marijuana, Distribute/Deliver/Manufacture/Produce or attempt to or possess with intent to Distribute/Deliver/Manufacture/Produce a controlled substance, Unlawful Use of Drug Paraphernalia, Property Damage 2nd Degree, Tampering with…

According to information released by the Clark County Sheriff Paul Gaudette, one woman has been arrested following a domestic disturbance involving a firearm. Press Release from the CCSO: At 11:59 a.m., October 20, 2016, the Clark County Sheriff’s Office and the Missouri State Highway Patrol responded to a call of a domestic disturbance in progress,…