Chariton County

Monroe City schools were locked down for about 20 minutes Wednesday afternoon.

Missouri Highway Patrol officials say additional charges have been filed following the death of a Keytesville Missouri child.

At approximately 6:04 p.m., on July 13, 2015, the Chariton County Sheriff’s Department received a call of an unresponsive two-year-old female who had been found in a private residential swimming pool in Keytesville, Missouri. The child was transported to a hospital in Columbia, Missouri, and is listed in critical condition.

Missouri Public Service Commission members add hearing dates in the Grain Belt Express case.

On April 15, 2014, at approximately 2:35 p.m., Damon K. Werteen, 49, of Marceline, Missouri, was arrested for felony statutory sodomy and felony child molestation. The arrest occurred at the Marceline Police Department following an investigation conducted by the Missouri State Highway Patrol's Division of Drug and Crime Control and the Marceline Police Department.

Grain Belt Express Clean Line officially releases a proposed route for an overhead power transmission line from Kansas across Missouri and Illinois to points east. Affected counties in the area are Chariton, Randolph, Monroe and Ralls.

(Chariton  County, Mo)-- The Missouri Highway Patrol reports a suspect is arrested in connection with a murder that took place over the weekend in Chariton County in North-Central Missouri.