Structure fire last night in Adrian

Shortly after 11:30 p.m. Saturday night the Adrian Fire Department responded to a structure fire at 1004 N. Edith Avenue in Adrian.

Fire crews were called back to this fire around 5:25 a.m. this morning as it rekindled. No one was injured in this fire and the cause is under investigation.

We spoke to Chief Dizney who said the shop was fully engulfed in flames when his crew arrived on scene. The building is said to be a cabinet/ wood working shop. 

Mid America Live will update when more information becomes available from the Adrian Fire Department. 

Butler Bears Wrestling Results From Paola Kansas

The Butler High School Varsity boys and girls wrestling team traveled to Paola, Kansas on Friday.

We took a small squad, but we performed well. We had a few close matches that didn’t go our way, but we will bounce back.

Individual results:

Airyanna Nuzum: 0-2.

Ashlynn Turner: 0-2.

Preston Mallatt: 4th place.

Damian Alkire: 2nd Place.

Isaac Rodriguez: 3rd place.

Zayne Nuzum: 4th place.

Adrian Blackhawk Girls Wrestling Team Conference Champions

Your Adrian Blackhawk girls are coming away as your 2024 conference CHAMPIONS! We wrestled very well as a team going 10-3 on the day with everyone placing top five in their respective weight classes with 5 champions.

Individual results:
Teja Bradley Champion
Danica Ackerman 1-2 1 pin 3rd place
Nyiomi Bradley Champion
Rylee Scrogham Champion
Dani Bolling 0-2 Runner up
Kendall Bailey 3-0 3 pins Champion
Tayler Essenpries 2-1 2 pins Runner up
Annabelle Rowe 2-0 2 pins Champion

The girls were able to accomplish the team goal of improving from the runner up finish last year and being conference champions in 2024. The girls will compete next in a dual against Warsaw January 30th.

Butler Youth Wrestling Club competes in Lees Summit today

The Butler Youth Wrestling Club went to Lees Summit West today, and we wrestled hard. Great wins and great losses, that’s the sport of wrestling. Here are the results:

Melanie Varns- 1st in Boys
Nolan Varns- 1st
Covy Riley-1st
Garren McGuire-2nd
Brayden McGuire-2nd
Easton Adams-3rd
Gabriel Sines-4th
Jestin Blomquist-4th
Mikey Blomquist-4th
Myka Morrill-4th
Emma Dixon -4th
Julius Varns-6th

They will all keep working hard, and continuing to make us so proud to be a BUTLER BEAR!!!

Traffic alert starting Monday in Cass County

TRAFFIC ALERT: Beginning on Monday, January 22, crews will be closing portions of Orchard Road, as they replace a storm water culvert that runs under the road.

Crews will close both lanes of the road just to the south of Orchard Place subdivision and just north of 267th Street.

This new culvert will continue our efforts to prevent local flooding and will improve the structural integrity of the roadway.

Way to go Tanner!

Harrisonville McEowen Elementary Wildcats fourth grader Tanner Sexton is headed to State! Tanner earned first place at the District Hoop Shoot in Grain Valley this morning. 

He will compete at the Missouri State Hoops Shoot on Feb. 3 in St. Louis! Way to go Tanner!

Brown gets 100th win in wrestling

Brown gets 100th win in wrestling...

We would like to congratulate Adrian High School Senior Wrestler William Brown on his 100th win and also for winning 1st Place in the Conference!

What a big accomplishment, William!! #BlackhawkPride 

Photos by Cassie Brown

Adrian Blackhawk Wrestling Results from the Greater Missouri Wrestling Conference Tournament

Your Adrian Blackhawk boys competed at home today in the Greater Missouri Wrestling Conference tournament and walked away with 5th place as a team with 8 varsity wrestlers and 3 JV wrestlers competing. We finished with 2 conference champs, a runner up, a 3rd, and a 4th place finisher.

Individual results:

Justin Ott 3-1 3 pins Runner up

Carter Dumas 2-1 1 pin 3rd place

Keagan Wisdom 1-2 1 pin 5th place

Justice Vickers 4-0 3 pins Champion

Briar Ackerman 2-3 2 pins 7th place

Brenton McGuire 2-3 2 pins 4th place

Ian Yoss 2-2 1 pin 3rd place

William Brown 5-0 4 pins Champion

On the JV side we had three wrestlers competing

Garrett Allen 0-4

Miles Deal 0-5

Tyler Todd 0-4

Overall as a team we wrestled fairly well. Although we didn’t reach our team goal of defending our conference title we still reached some individual goals with 7 placing in the top five of their respective weight classes. Now we look to build off this weekend as the boys are back in action next Saturday in Seneca.