Brookfield, MO

Chillicothe assistant police chief Rick Sampsel reports officers have responded to numerous complaints of fireworks being set off past the allowed time in Chillicothe, which is 10 p.m. on July 1st, 2nd, and 3rd and 11 p.m. on July 4th. The allowable starting time on all four days in Chillicothe is at 8 a.m.

This May, Jennifer Hall was arrested and charged with murder in a case many thought had gone cold. This document explains why prosecutors think Hall killed a woman at the hospital where she worked in 2002.

Doctors and nurses suspected for months that a killer prowled the halls of their small hospital. Patients were dying at an alarming rate. In a legal filing, families of the dead explain what they think happened.

The widow of a man killed when the truck he was driving was hit by an Amtrak train this week has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. In the suit, Erin Barton alleges that the Missouri railroad crossing where Billy Dean Barton II died was "ultra-hazardous," due in part to the defendants' failures to maintain the intersection.

Amtrak is suing MS Contracting after a train struck one of its dump trucks in a collision that killed the truck's driver and three passengers.

ST. JOSEPH – St. Joseph pounded out 11 hits and used a six-run third inning to blow out Chillicothe 13-3 in seven innings Sunday at Phil Welch Stadium. Mustang starting pitcher Dawson Smith lasted six innings, allowing just two earned runs and striking out seven. Mudcat starter Ryan Sell,...

WAPAKONETA — The Steinke family, of Wapakoneta, headed out West for a memorable railroad trip across the great expanse. Being aboard the Amtrak train that tragically struck a dump truck Monday, killing four people near Mendon, Missouri, isn’t what the family will remember most, though. They’ll remember the kindness of strangers during a time of need.

The lawsuits are piling-up…just days after four people died in an Amtrak derailment in northern Missouri…at a crossing with no lights, gates or bells. A dump truck driver and three passengers on an Amtrak train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago died in the Mendon, Missouri crash. In...

Two train conductors have filed a lawsuit in Monday’s deadly train derailment in Mendon, Missouri.

MENDON, Mo. — The Amtrak train crash in Missouri last Monday not only left three people dead, but dozens injured. Among the injured is a relative of 5NEWS evening anchor Daren Bobb. A few days after the accident, Daren spoke with his cousin Janet about the ordeal she and...

Marjorie Helen Grisamore of rural Galt, MO, born November 8, 1928, in Grundy County to Alva & Lillie (Fisher) Brassfield left this Earth on June 29, 2022, in Columbia, MO. Marjorie Helen Brassfield captured Byron Grisamore’s heart and they were married on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1948, in a ceremony at Honey Creek Chapel.

A mother aboard a train derailment in Mendon, Missouri, on Monday climbed on top of the wreckage and went from train car to train car, yelling into each window while searching for her three children, according to her son, Dax McDonald. The Amtrak train was traveling from Los Angeles to...

The Chillicothe Police Department responded to 85 calls for service Saturday. The calls include reports of fireworks used outside the allowed times for the City of Chillicothe. Other calls on Saturday include:. 12:45 am, Officer stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation and arrested a 27-year-old for Driving While Intoxicated....

As the July 4th Holiday comes to a close today the Chillicothe Community is gearing up for the celebration of Sliced Bread Day. Amy Supple from the Greater Chillicothe Visitor’s Region reminds us Sliced Bread Day is Thursday, July 7th. Supple says Sliced Bread Day will be celebrated July...