Auxvasse News

North Callaway R-1 School District is seeking bond money to improve its facilities.

An elder and choir member in the Auxvasse Presbyterian Church, an active member of the Audrain Humane Society Board and the Mexico Animal Shelter Board, and a volunteer at the Humane Society, area nursing homes and her church, seemingly would occupy most of Mexicoan Phyllis J. Hornbeck's time.

JAMES PENNELL, third from left, currently is undergoing treatment at Columbia's Rusk Rehabilitation Center after he sustained serious injuries while coming to the aid of a 2-year-old child in Fulton July 17.

JAMES PENNELL, third from left, currently is undergoing treatment at Columbia's Rusk Rehabilitation Center after he sustained serious injuries while coming to the aid of a 2-year-old child in Fulton July 17.

It is 7 a.m. Saturday, and fruit, pastries, eggs, hashed browns and country-cured hams have only minutes before being consumed by nearly 650 people at the Boone County Fairgrounds.

'God must have been protecting me in some way. I don't know how I did it.' That's how James Pennell, 32, of Kingdom City described how he survived an accident just over a week ago in Fulton after he saved a stranger's 2-year-old child from being run over in traffic.

COLUMBIA A former resident of Sturgeon was sentenced Thursday in federal court to 15 years in prison without parole for his role in trafficking hundreds of pounds of marijuana as well as an unspecified amount of cocaine from Texas to Missouri, according to a news release from the Office of the U.S. Attorney of the Western District of Missouri.

Topic: Courthouse News Circuit Court : Daily Record 5-15-09 Published Online May 15, 2009 - 01:34 PM CIRCUIT COURT Division I Judge Jack Peace Kurt G. Walker, 20, Laredo, had his probation continued with additional conditions on original charges of second degree burglary.

Kenny Brinker is on the front lines of the national drive to prevent an outbreak of swine flu on U.S. hog farms.

A Columbia, Mo.-area man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday morning for his role in the February 2008 armed robbery of a Van Buren pharmacy.

A Fulton man is in the Callaway County Jail today on charges that he stabbed another man at a party.