The Adrian Fire Department along with mutual aide assistance from the Butler Fire Department is on scene of a residential fire located east of Adrian on 18 Highway to County Road 3003 then South 1 quarter of a mile.
When fire crews arrived on scene no fire was showing from the exterior of the house.
Crews did find some smoke in the residence around a stairwell and no one is believed to be home at this time.
Butler and Adrian Fire crews will remain on scene for a unknown period of time to investigate the cause of the fire.
Mid America Live News will update when more information is made available to us from the Adrian Fire Department.
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| Mary Virginia Miller |
Graveside services for Mary Virginia Miller will be 11 a.m. Monday, August 8, 2016 at Westpoint Cemetery in Amsterdam, Missouri. There is no visitation.
Services under the direction of the Schowengerdt Funeral Chapel (660-679-6555) in Butler, Missouri.
Mary Virginia Miller, age 89 of Sedalia, Missouri, formerly of Butler, Missouri died Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at Bothwell Regional Health Center in Sedalia. She was born June 15, 1927 to Jerry Marion Donelly and Cora Maria Alexander Stitt in Rockville, Kansas.
Mary is survived by her daughter, Mary Lynn Aleshire and husband Mark Baker of Warrensburg, Missouri; one son-in-law, Gerald Seelinger of Warrensburg, Missouri; three grandchildren, Jennifer Seelinger, Tiffany Seelinger and Ryan Seelinger; and two great-grandchildren, Chloe Bigger and Hailey Forence. She was preceded in death by her parents; two daughters, Patricia Marie Seelinger and Caroline Aleshire; and one brother, Melvin Arthur Stitt.
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| John Brunner |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A man accused of sexual abuse in a pending civil lawsuit is suing Missouri Republican gubernatorial candidate John Brunner.
In a petition dated Tuesday, California venture capitalist Michael Goguen accused Brunner of defamation.
The allegations against Goguen, which he denies, are an issue in the Missouri governor's race because Goguen gave $1 million to Republican candidate Eric Greitens.
Brunner in a recent debate said Greitens took money from "the owner of a teenage sex slave."
Brunner's campaign spokesman says the lawsuit is an attempt by a donor of Greitens to distract from other issues in the race.
The other GOP candidates in the Aug. 2 primary are former U.S. Attorney and House Speaker Catherine Hanaway and Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder. They've called on Greitens to return the money.
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Pulaski County, Mo. — A death investigation is underway in Pulaski County (Waynesville, Missouri) after an elderly couple was found dead in their home.
Sheriff Ron Long says the bodies of 73-year-old Alva "Alvey" Green and 75-year-old Martha Jeffries were found in their home Thursday on Syracuse Lane near Laquey.
The bodies were discovered by families members, after the two had not been seen for several weeks.
Officials say the couple had been deceased for a prolonged period of time, making the cause of death difficult to determine.
We will update when more information is made available to us in this case.
On 8/5/16 around 1:10pm the Missouri State Highway Patrol in Cass County arrested 26 year old David A. Smith of Leavenworth, Kansas.
Mr. Smith was arrested for 1.) (1) Felony Leavenworth County Kansas Warrant 2.) Misdemeanor Platte County Warrant 3.) (1) Misdemeanor Clay County Warrant 4.) Driving While Suspended 5.) Unlawful use of drug paraphernalia.
He was booked into the Cass County Jail and currently placed on No Bond!
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| Jeremy Maples |
A man from Nevada received a life prison sentence on Friday for the murder of a woman at her home in 2009.
A Vernon County jury convicted Jeremy Maples, 37, in June for first-degree murder.
Investigators said Maples shot and killed Belinda Beisly, 47, around midnight on July 15, 2009, at her home outside Deerfield shortly after she got home from work at the 3M plant in Nevada.
Maples was a farmhand for Bob Beisly II, the victim’s estranged husband. Maples told investigators that Beisly offered him $10,000 to kill his estranged wife. Maples also told investigators that Beisly told him several times on July 14, 2009, that it had to be done that day, and to make it look like a break-in. Beisly was not charged for the murder.
The Attorney General's Office prosecuted the case. The trial was at the Cedar County Courthouse in Stockton with the jury from Vernon County.
Life in prison without possibility of parole was the judge's only option for a sentence because prosecutors did not seek a death penalty.
Courtesy of KSPR33 Springfield Mo
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| Elfreda Koehn |
Elfreda Koehn, 70, Compton Junction, MO passed away suddenly on Thursday, August 4, 2016 at her home. She was born on December 21, 1945 in Enid, OK to Wilmer S. Boehs and Martha Louise (Schmidt) Boehs. She was married to Earl Koehn on October 24, 1964 in Ponca City, OK and he survives of the home.
Elfreda was raised in Oklahoma and graduated from Goltry, Oklahoma High School in 1964. She met Earl that year and they were married in October of the same year. They lived in Halstead, KS until 1966 at which time Earl was drafted into the United States Army and Elfreda came to Nevada until his discharge from the army. At that time they returned to Halstead. They moved to Texas in 1975 where they lived until moving back to Nevada in 1986 following her graduation from LPN School in Waxahachie, TX. She worked for several area nursing homes until her retirement in 2008. Elfreda loved spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren and great-grandchildren and watching her hummingbirds.
In addition to her husband, Earl, she is survived by her three children, Rhonda Howrey and her husband Vernon, Nevada, Mary Ann Henson and her husband John, Nevada, and Gary Koehn and his fiance’ Sherry Hull, Monett, MO; nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren; her siblings, Harold Boehs and his wife Velma, Nevada, Art Boehs and his wife Alice, Nevada, Bernita Rawson and her husband Steve, El Dorado Springs, MO, Calvin Boehs, Nevada, and Mark Boehs and his wife Cindy, Monett; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, one grandson and a sister-in-law, Peggy Boehs.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, August 8, 2016 at the Living Faith Mennonite Church, Walker, MO. Interment will follow in Living Faith Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 4:00-6:00 p.m. on Sunday evening, August 7, 2016 at Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada.
Those who wish may contribute in her memory to Children’s Mercy Hospital in care of Ferry Funeral Home.
