By Mike Scott Dr. Kelsey Davis-Humes was a typical, busy Clark County High School senior just 10 years ago. A graduate in the Class of 2006, Davis-Humes kept busy with school activities including FBLA, Marine Ecology, Campus Bowl, NHS, Student Council, Key Club, FCA, Flags in Marching Band, Pep band, Jazz Band, Contest Band, and…

It was February 16th, 1856 when a small group of neighbors met at the home of James & Hannah Christy to elect Trustees for a new church at Peakesville. The group had been meeting at the Highland schoolhouse along with a Baptist group. But after many serious and sometimes bitter discussions between the Christians and…

Mike and Sue Scott, publishers of The Media and The Edina Sentinel, and NEMOnews.net are adding two more weekly newspapers to their media company. On Thursday, May 26, the Scotts purchased the Shelby County Herald and the Clarence Courier from Williams Communications, owned by Dennis and Debra Williams of Clarence. The Shelbyville Herald was established…

At least three stolen vehicles were pulled from the Mississippi River at Alexandria on Wednesday, May 25. The vehicles had been dumped in the river from the old boat ramp at the old park just north of the levee. Divers from the Missouri Highway Patrol located the vehicles with sonar. Divers then attached a cable…

Sirens broke the quiet of Wednesday morning, and a pillar of smoke rose hundreds of feet into the air above Luray as firefighters from the Kahoka, Clark County Rural and Wyaconda fire departments responded to a house fire shortly after 8:30am. The unoccupied home at Lusley and Franklin Streets in Luray is owned by Louie…

Missouri Department of Natural Resources, in conjunction with the Canton Recycling Center, will provide a FREE pesticide collection on Saturday, May 21, 2016 from 8 am to 1 pm at the Canton Recycling Center 509 N. 4th St., Canton, MO. Missouri farmers and/or households can participate.  Items to be accepted are pesticides including, herbicides, insecticides,…

More than 25 people took part of their lunch hour to gather in Kahoka’s City Park to take part in the National Day of Prayer. The service was led by Rev. Dixie Laube from St. Paul United Church of Christ in Kahoka. Watch the entire service below:

By Mike Scott Many of the 19 residents at the Clark County Residential Care Facility are heartbroken at the prospect of changes to their homelike living environment in the wake of a change announced last week. Beginning on April 27, 2016, the residents of RCF were each visited individually by the Administrative staff from RCF,…

The fourth fugitive in yesterday’s manhunt was arrested today in Keokuk. According to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office,Trenton Ray Kindhart, of Keokuk, Iowa was arrested in Keokuk.  He is being held in Lee County on Lee County warrants.

UPDATE-Two subjects were taken into custody, at the northwest corner of Wayland, Missouri, where they had taken refuge in an abandoned, single wide trailer at approximately 1244 hours. Arrested was Dalton James Meyers, age 21, of Keokuk, Iowa and Jason Scott Tripp, age 40, also of Keokuk, Iowa. Weston Jaycob Schorr, has been eliminated as…