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To kick things off this coming Tuesday, USDA Officials will be in Kahoka to announce a Certificate of Award for Fire and Rescue–five units of Self Contained Breathing Apparatus with extra cylinders for the City fire department.

Officials will then head for the Scotland County Courthouse to award a Certificate of Recognition for funding the purchase of a new patrol vehicle to enhance and improve preparedness and day-to-day operations.  The patrol vehicle will improve the safety and quality of life for the 4,983 residents in Scotland County.

Then, USDA State Director Janie Dunning, USDA Area Representatives and other officials will head out to Scotland County Hospital where they will participate in the ribbon cutting for the newly expanded and remodeled 10-million dollar Hospital and Surgery Center. 

Tours of the facility will be offered from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m., with the official ribbon cutting at 5:00 p.m..

Jason Brandenburg is charged with three counts of second degree assault for allegedly operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and causing a crash that resulted in injury.

According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash happened in mid-July when Brandenburg attempted to turn from highway 149 onto highway 6 in Novinger.

Brandenburg allegedly pulled into the path of an oncoming vehicle driven by 17 year old Cody Ford of Milan. 

Brandenburg and a passenger in the vehicle driven by Ford were both injured in the crash.

Brandenburg also faces a charge of driving while revoked/suspended as a second or subsequent offense, and operating a vehicle in a careless and imprudent manner involving an accident.  Both charges are misdemeanors.

At the time of his arrest, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Brandenburg’s blood alcohol level was .225, and that is nearly three times the legal limit.

Brandenburg turned himself in at the Adair County jail Tuesday afternoon, where he is being held on $25,000.00 cash only bond.

Authorities report a bi-racial girl named Abigail Berthoff was abducted  from the Poplar Bluff area near the Arkansas line in southeast Missouri sometime overnight between 10:00 last night and 6:00 a.m. today.

Authorities are currently looking for a 45-year old registered sex offender named Jeffrey Shelton, who is a suspect in the abduction.  Again, five year old Abigail Berthoff is bi-racial, has black hair and brown eyes.  Shelton is a white male, six feet tall, weighing 175 pounds, with brown hair and green eyes.

Shelton is believed to be driving a silver 2001 Nissan Pathfinder with license plate number PJ8Z5M.

Anyone with any information on the whereabouts of Berthoff or Shelton is asked to contact the Poplar Bluff Police Department at 573-785-5776.

Poplar Bluff is southwest of Sikeston, Missouri, just off Route 60.

A preliminary report from the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation states that at around 11:00 a.m. Van Buren County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to numerous 911 reports of a male subject wearing a military uniform and armed with a rifle walking westbound along highway 2, east of Cantril.  The subject was allegedly making obscene gestures at passing motorists.

Once deputies arrived on scene, the male subject was ordered to drop his firearm.  At that time, the subject pointed the firearm at the deputies.  Due to the subject’s actions, the man was fatally shot by one of the responding Sheriff’s deputies.

The officer involved in the shooting is being investigated by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.  The subject’s name is not being released at this time, pending notification of family members.  More information will be released later.

You may remember a story we ran on KMEM News not long ago about 13 year old Will Jacobs of Green City, whose dying wish was to meet the legendary entertainer.

Thanks to modern technology, not long after Facebook posts were made, someone actually made contact with Cosby through his “Twitter” account, and Cosby actually called young Will Jacobs on the phone, and talked to him for about fifteen or twenty minutes, and told him he would be sending him some DVD’s and an autographed picture.  Although contacts had been made through the Make-A-Wish Foundation to attempt to work out a possible meeting between the two, now that will not happen, as Jacobs died this past Saturday morning at his home outside Winigan.  Jacobs attended school in the Green City School District.

Travis-Noe Funeral Home in Kirksville is handling arrangements.  Will Jacobs is survived by his parents, Allen and Trena Jacobs, five brothers and two sisters.  Public visitation will be tonight at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on East Normal Street in Kirksville, with a service tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. at the church.

Law enforcement and school district officials report that the Keokuk Police Department received a phone call just before 5:00 p.m. Monday afternoon, stating that an unidentified man allegedly approached a girl, asked her for a ride, and offered her some candy. The girl reportedly ignored the man and walked home without incident. None of the information has been verified.

Keokuk Public school District officials sent an automated call to parents notifying them of the incident as a precaution.

A separate incident occurred in Keokuk earlier this month when police were notified that a man allegedly approached a Keokuk High school student walking between classes at around 1:00 p.m. on September 12th. That man was described as a white male in his 60′s or 70′s who allegedly approached the girl and began asking questions that made her uncomfortable.

Anyone with any information on either of these incidents is asked to contact the Keokuk Police Department at 319-524-3132.

Its not very often someone celebrates fifty years in business, but that is what is happening today in Memphis at the office of dentist Dr. Harlo L.Donelson.

An open house will be held at the Donelson dental office on the west side of the Memphis square from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m..

Donelson, his wife Joyce and son Wes first came to the Memphis area back in 1962. 

Donelson almost started his practice in Canton, but the Memphis area made Donelson and his family feel so welcome, that they came to Memphis fifty years ago and stayed ever since.

Donelson is a charter member of the Memphis Community Players, had a hand in leading the effort to build the new Memphis Theatre when the old one burned down, served for a number of years on the Scotland County R-1 School Board and Donelson still serves as head of the local Economic Development Committee.

Once again, the Open House celebrating Donelson’s fifty years in dentistry in the Memphis area will be today from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Donelson Dental Office on the west side of the Memphis square.

According to the Memphis Police Department. 62 year old Carolyn N. Moore was westbound on 136 and merged onto highway 15, realized she had made a wrong turn, and made a left turn back down to the “Y”, when the vehicle Moore was driving was struck nearly head-on by an eastbound vehicle driven by 53-year old Bobby R. Bradley of Baring.  Moore sustained minor injuries, and was transported to Scotland County Hospital by Scotland County Ambulance.  Bradley was not injured.  No citations were issued.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports  a utility truck driven by 52-year old Michael J. Fulton of Williamstown was northbound attempting to merge into the exit lane from highway 61 to highway 16 when the truck rear-ended a northbound Amish buggy driven by 42-year old Chris Yoder of Canton.  Yoder was thrown from the buggy and pronounced dead Thursday evening at Blessing Hospital in Quincy.

Yesterday’s accident happened at 4:35 in the afternoon.  Yoder’s death marks the 27th traffic fatality in the troop “B” area this year.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports the accident involved a 1981 Yamaha motorcycle driven westbound by Richard D, Drew, who struck some ridges in the roadway.  The motorcycle he was driving went out of control, travelled into the eastbound lane, and struck a 2005 Ford Escape driven by 34 year old Katharine S. Lucas of Huntsville, head-on.

Drew was killed in the accident, and his body was taken to Patton Funeral Home in Huntsville.  Drew was pronounced dead at the scene by the Randolph County Coroner.

34-year-old Katharine S. Lucas and two passengers in the vehicle she was driving; her son, 9 year old Bryson Lucas; and Lucas’s 13-year-old daughter Emma Purdy, all sustained minor injuries, and were taken by Randolph County Ambulance to Moberly Regional Medical Center for treatment.

The accident happened on Route “BB” 4 1/2 miles west of route “A” in Randolph County…

This makes the 25th fatality for troop “B” for 2012.