Martinsburg News

The Little Dixie Shrine Club is hosting its 2nd annual barbeque cook off this weekend to support Missouri hospitals.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the selection of nearly $143 million in water and environmental projects that are being funded immediately through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Farmers who lost money when a northwest Missouri grain dealer went out of business will soon learn how much they can expect to recover from state regulators.

Like the railroad tracks that cut through the center of this quiet farm town, a Wall Street-style financial scandal is dividing many who live here.

March 10, 2009 - Linus Rothermich, second from right, goes through the complicated mound of paperwork transactions involving grain he had given to Cathy Gieseker.

Legislation from two local lawmakers aimed at emergency services picked up speed last week.

As if the economy didn't have enough problems, an undetermined amount of area farmers have been impacted by an Audrain County grain dealer.

Missouri lawmakers are proposing tougher regulation of grain sales in response to the insolvency of an Audrain County trucking company.

MARTINSBURG, Mo. - Linus Rothermich took a trucking company owner at her word when she promised to later pay him for nearly $200,000 in grain delivered to feedlots and storage elevators across Missouri.

A northeast Missouri trucking company and grain elevator has had its license suspended and owes area farmers and other sellers at least $1 million, state regulators allege in court records.

A Martinsburg, Missouri man could spend up to three years in prison for blowing up a mailbox.