Bates County News

One Bates County man was injured in a one-vehicle crash at 7:20 p.m. Saturday in Jackson county on east-bound Interstate Highway 70, according to Missouri Highway Patrol crash reports.

Heavy rains Monday continue to cause flooding on roads in three counties supervised by the Missouri Department of Transportation's Joplin district.

An English company, Nighthawk Energy, has begun an aggressive drilling program in western Missouri after it found "promising" amounts of oil in four test wells.

The number of applications received by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources' State Oil and Gas Council for oil and gas exploration has surpassed last year's total in the first four months of this year.

It’s the last week of the month, summer’s coming, and a gallon of milk costs $4.A perfect storm brews over area food banks, and it foreshadows a hot, turbulent season ahead for nearly 28 million ...

On May 31, the Bates County and Johnson County Cattlemen's Association will sponsor a cookout for all 200 veterans living at the Missouri Veterans Home in Warrensburg. via Sedalia Democrat

“It helps them to have somebody else, somebody who cares. Because lots of times they're not believed, they feel like they're not believed. This is a way of saying to them we all believe you.”

Photos by Justin Messner/Herald-Tribune One of two dozen bikers taking part in an advocacy event in early April, "Dawg," who did not otherwise identify himself, pulls in for a break on the outskirts of Nevada. via Nevada Daily Mail/Sunday Nevada Herald

“But, for now it's just business as usual and we're just going to keep trying on the levy.”

Despite the failure of a tax levy increase on the April 8 ballot to fund construction of a new school, Northeast Vernon County R-1 School District Superintendent Charles Naas said it will be business as usual ... via Nevada Daily Mail/Sunday Nevada Herald

“It would eliminate one board meeting, combines two boards into one and would give the people in VC 6 a lower rate per thousand gallons of water”

Two water districts in Vernon County are proposing to merge into one. Currently the largest, Consolidated Public Water Supply District No. via Nevada Daily Mail/Sunday Nevada Herald

State Representative Barney Fisher has announced that he has filed for re-election as state representative for the 125th District. via Nevada Daily Mail/Sunday Nevada Herald

“The demise of the (Hume) bank is a direct result of alleged improprieties by former bank management, which resulted in past due loans not being reported and the true condition of the bank being misrepresented”

State banking regulators seized a tiny bank in Hume, Mo., after discovering management had been lying to hide the bank's frail condition.

'The books were being cooked by former management,' said D. Eric McClure, commissioner of finance in Missouri, who ordered the Hume Bank closed Friday.

McClure's office banned the bank's former president, Jeffrey W. Thompson, from the banking industry on Aug. 21.

The bank, in western Bates County about 80 miles south of Kansas City, will reopen Monday as a branch of nearby Security Bank in Rich Hill. Depositors' insured account balances transferred automatically to the new bank and remain available this weekend through checks, ATMs and debit cards. Read more

" A Butler High School employee has been charged for acquiring illegal amounts of ephedrine. via KSHB-TV Kansas City

“Just because there are borders created for law enforcement territory, there is certainly no boundaries for drug trafficking and that is why agency cooperation is so important.”

Seven arrests in Barton County by RAYMA BEKEBROCK DAVIS Democrat editor LAMAR - A 36-hour effort by law enforcement agencies which began on March 5 ended in 36 regional arrests for drug trafficking in Southwest ... via The Lamar Democrat

The athletic director of a Bates County school was arrested on suspicion of running a meth lab, authorities said. via The Kansas City Channel

Applications are available at the Nevada Campus of Crowder College for the second class of the school's fledgling registered nursing program. via Nevada Daily Mail/Sunday Nevada Herald

A 9-year-old girl died early Friday morning in a mobile home fire in Bates County, the coroner said. via TheKansasCityChannel.com

The Missouri Water Patrol is searching for a missing man who disappeared while on a six-mile float on the Marais Des Cygnes river in western Missouri. via KSHB-TV Kansas City

" A Rich Hill woman has been charged with killing her mother in Bates County on late Sunday night. via KSHB-TV Kansas City

Ashley and Nathan Forkner, and sibling, Mason, of Richards, are proud to announce the birth of their son and baby brother, Rhett Greeley Forkner. via The Nevada Daily Mail