Auxvasse News

An accident last night in Callaway County involving a van carrying six passengers left one woman dead and two others in serious condition.

AUXVASSE, Mo. - A deer hunter from St. Louis who was accidentally shot on Saturday has died.

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.