Pettis County News

This list is a sampling of crime in Sedalia and the surrounding area. The information is taken from official police reports, which do not necessarily contain statements from all parties involved in each case.

Regardless of the name it is called by, supporters of a proposed constitutional amendment that would replace Missouri's income tax with a higher and more comprehensive sales tax told a gathering of reporters in Jefferson City on Thursday they are committed to putting the ballot initiative before voters in November.

Sedalia's not perfect, not by a long shot. But there are a few things we excel at as a community and one of those things is our capacity to embrace that slightly vague group of endeavors called the fine arts.

This list is a sampling of crime in Sedalia and the surrounding area. The information is taken from official police reports, which do not necessarily contain statements from all parties involved in each case.

Don Hutcheson was installed as chairman of the Pettis County University of Missouri Extension at an annual meeting and banquet held Tuesday night at Best Western State Fair Motor, 32nd and Limit.

Pettis County Recorder of Deeds Barbara Clevenger recently issued marriage licenses to: William C. Mulcrone, 43, and Linda D. Criner, 38, both of Sedalia; Thomas B. Myers, 23, and Latanya A. Jones, 20, both of Sedalia; Patrick T. Aldrich, 33, and Jennifer A. Grohs, 28, both of Sedalia; Elijah R. Docker, 25, and Christine J. Weisse, 30, both of ... (more)

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People organized in 1909 and was seen as a threat by those who supported the status quo of racial discrimination.

A Knob Noster woman was seriously injured in a vehicle accident at 7:10 p.m. Monday in Pettis County.

Western Commissioner Larry Wilson and Presiding Commissioner John Meehan signed a proclamation Tuesday morning to observe 'Thank a Farmer Week' which is Feb.

Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. today for Missouri's 2012 presidential preference primary, though election officials are not expecting high turnout for the largely nonbinding vote.

This list is a sampling of crime in Sedalia and the surrounding area. The information is taken from official police reports, which do not necessarily contain statements from all parties involved in each case.

People can get nostalgic about bridges sometimes. The densely populated country that surrounds Sedalia used to be lousy with bridges.

Pettis County native and SedaliaA businessmanA Jim Marcum announced his intentions to run for Western District Commissioner on Monday morning during a brief press conference outside the Commissioners' Chambers at the Pettis County Courthouse.

He was born December 1, 1925, in Garnett, Kan., a son of Jasper William and Louisa Pearl "Lula" James Mickens.

A Smithton teenager was hurt in a two-vehicle crash on Friday in Pettis County. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report, a 2003 Pontiac driven by Maria L. Bunch, 20, of Sedalia, was northbound on U.S. Highway 50 near Route TT when it pulled into the path of an eastbound 2000 Lincoln driven by Crystal G. Figueroa, 36, of Smithton.

The Pettis County Health Center is touting its recently announced advanced level accreditation from the Missouri Institute for Community Health - a yearlong process that makes Pettis one of only 19 accredited local public health agencies among Missouri's 114 counties.

Brazil-based Iochpe-Maxion S.A. announced late Thursday it has finalized its acquisition of wheel manufacturer Hayes Lemmerz International.

She was born in rural Pettis County, Nov. 15, 1931, to John Franklin Gray and Jessie Louise Bratton Gray.

Pettis County Recorder of Deeds Barbara Clevenger recently issued marriage licenses to: James E. Case, 48, and Kelli A. Wood, 39, both of Sedalia; Jose E. Resendiz, 34, of Sedalia, and Angela C. Kirk, 37, of Warsaw; William C. Mulcrone, 43, and Linda D. Criner, 38, both of Sedalia.

Mary Kindle, a community awareness and research grant writer for the Sedalia VISTA program, is updated by volunteer Tom Beatty, center, on work being done to rehab a trailer owned by Donald Hancock, left, in the Brentwood Manor mobile home park.