Adair County News

The Kirksville City Council met Monday afternoon with the Kirksville Fire Department and the Adair County Ambulance District, or ACAD.

The Missouri Department of Transportation announced today a pavement-smoothing project will take place on Route 63 in Adair County on Wednesday, July 1, from 5:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. During the project a section of the route will be restricted to one lane from Illinois Street in Kirksville to Patterson Street.

Friday, June 26, 2009 at 5:07 p.m. ADAIR COUNTY -- A A Friday afternoon blaze in Eastern Adair County on Birch Way kept local firefighters busy for two and a half hours.

Posted on Friday, June 26, 2009 at 1:03 p.m. MoDOT received three contractor bids Friday to rebuild a section of Route 156 near Gifford that was washed away in May during heavy rainfall and flooding.A The apparent low bid of $321,000 was submitted by R&L Boone Construction of Marceline.

A Heartland man is behind bars facing child pornography charges. Glen Ketterlinus, 56, of Kirksville is charged with sexual exploitation of a minor and possession of child pornography.

Craig Kilmer is seeking insurance payments for damages incurred during the May 13 tornado.

Charges are amended against three Saint Louis men involved in a Kirksville shooting last summer.

Posted on Tuesday, June 09, 2009 at 8:01 p.m. Gene Lacy, State Supervisor for the Missouri Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Control, announces that the Division conducted 12 alcohol compliance check investigations in Macon, Adair and Sullivan Counties on June 5, 2009.

June 08, 2009 -- St. Charles, IL Faced with a need to enhance the level of information and detail included in Adair County's existing GIS data, County Assessor Donnie Waybill was in search of the most effective and efficient means to accomplish this task.

Adair County Commissioners are beginning the application process to create an Enhanced Enterprise Zone in the county.

A new high-tech company moving to Kirksville plans to hire about 100 people. At the Missouri Career Center in Kirksville, potential employees lined up at the crack of dawn to try and apply for the new jobs.

Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 4:39 p.m. A volunteer firefighter is one of two Adair County men behind bars accused of starting a series of recent fires.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 4:26 p.m. KIRKSVILLE, M0. -- It's officially tick season after this year's first confirmed case of tick-borne disease involved a woman in her 80s from south of St.

A Kirksville woman is behind bars accused of lying under oath. Earlene Rogers, 18, was indicted by a grand jury on eight counts of perjury.

A Kirksville woman has been charged with eight counts of perjury after prosecutors say her rape claims landed two innocent men behind bars for eight months.

Two Heartland men falsely accused of rape are sharing their thoughts about the arrest of their accuser.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon visited Kirksville on Thursday to see the tornado destruction and to meet with storm victims and local officials.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 7:54 p.m. We have the entire KTVO Team working as fast as we can to bring you complete coverage on the storm damage as we have it.

The worst of Wednesday night's storms missed the mid-Missouri area, but took a direct hit on Adair County around Kirksville.

A massive cleanup is under way in parts of northern Missouri after violent weather killed three people and damaged more than 200 buildings on Wednesday night.