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QUINCY — Miss Quincy Scholarship Program officials have announced the contestants for the annual Miss Quincy and Miss Quincy’s Teen Competition, presented by Gully Transportation. The event will begin at 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 6. The Miss Quincy Scholarship Program welcomes 13 delegates to the competition, which will take place at the Quincy Community Theatre. The theme for the event is “Long Live Cowgirls” and will feature…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The arrival of the first baby born at Hannibal Regional Hospital in the new year is a boy named Arrow. Proud parents Ryan and Ashlie Gilmore welcomed him into the world at 1:18 p.m. Jan. 1. Arrow weighed 7 pounds and 2 ounces. This is the Gilmores’ second son born at Hannibal…
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QUINCY — “And there is a time to dance. And there was a time for this law, but not any more.” — Ren McCormack from the movie “Footloose.” Nancy Callaway claims she is being discriminated against as a minority because she wants to open a Latin-themed nightclub at 428 Maine. Callaway and her husband, Keith,…
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QUINCY — After Quincy Police Chief Adam Yates finished swearing in three new QPD officers, Mayor Mike Troup asked the chief about the department’s manpower status. “This swearing in and these three officers puts us at 73 sworn officers in the Quincy Police Department, which for us is full-staff, which we haven’t been at in…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — A conversation began Tuesday night at the Hannibal City Council meeting regarding the burden of derelict properties on Hannibal taxpayers. The city of Hannibal currently lists nearly 70 private properties and vacant lots owned by the city, with three scheduled for demolition. “Presently we tear down these old houses and end up…
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QUINCY, Ill. — Dutton Ray Eugene Black was the first baby born in 2024 at Blessing Hospital’s Blessed Beginnings maternity center. Dutton was born at 10:59 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 1, according to a press release from Blessing Hospital. He weighed 6 pounds and 1 ounce and was 18 inches long at birth. He is the…
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Pillsbury opened its milling operation in Springfield in 1929 and employed 1500 workers in 1950. In 1991, Pillsbury sold the plant to Cargill, who operated it from 1991 to 2001, before selling it for scrap in 2008. The City of Springfield has been trying to repurpose the facility for two decades. Mark McDonald and Randy Phillips…
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Marie D. Snell, 39, last known address in the 200 block of Marion in Clayton, is wanted by the Adams County Sheriff’s Department for possession of a stolen vehicle. Snell is 5 foot, 2 inches tall and 125 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. If you know where she can be found, call the…
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FALL CREEK TOWNSHIP, Ill. – A one-vehicle crash near the Marblehead exit on I-172 sent two Hannibal teens to the hospital and stopped traffic on the highway for 90 minutes Sunday night. At 6 p.m. Sunday, a Dodge truck driven by Carter L. Doran, 16, of Hannibal, was traveling northbound on 172 when the truck…
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Since the crime and tragedy stories involving the Bliefnick murder case and Bradley Yohn’s antics dominated 2023 and were also in the overall top 50 list we did, here are the most read crime stories that didn’t involve those two cases. These rankings are based on MRN’s Google analytics. The Top 10 1. Quincy businessman killed…
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CENTER, Mo. — The Ralls County Library will welcome visiting authors throughout the new year, thanks to a recent $5,000 donation they received from EDF Renewables. The $5,000.00 donation from EDF Renewables for the Visiting Author Fund. The library reported in a recent press release that the donation will provide future author visits to the…
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MRN’s Ron Kinscherf talks to Dr. Justin Felsman with Limitless Medical about how chiropractic care has evolved and the other services offered. Mercantile Bank sponsors the Business Spotlight.
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HANNIBAL, Mo.— Thursday was the fourth day of Kwanzaa, an annual seven-day celebration of the history and customs of African American culture. Kwanzaa is a Swahili word meaning “first fruit” and each day of Kwanzaa—celebrated from Dec. 26 to Jan 1–is assigned a specific principle. Thursday’s principle, Purpose, set the tone that afternoon at the…
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Yes, many of our page views come from crime and bad news. But we cover lots of stories of a more positive nature. Content to tug at your heart strings. Here are our top stories that might make you smile or shed a tear in a good way. 1. FRANKIE SAY: After 27 years, Robert Stellino…
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Visitation for Dennis Oliver will be January 5 from 3-7 p.m. at Duker & Haugh Funeral Home. A Celebration of Life will take place at the Ambiance on January 6 from 2-5 p.m. Some of D.O.’s friends gave Muddy River News some kind words about their friend. “D.O. was the best. We were like brothers. Heck,…
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QUINCY — A Quincy man has entered a guilty plea to an Aggravated Battery charge for hitting a man in the head outside a Quincy bar, sending him to the hospital. Bryan Paden, 40, appeared with attorney Nick Rober in Adams County Circuit Court Friday morning before Judge Tad Brenner. One count of aggravated battery…
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QUINCY — Dennis Oliver, the morning radio host who entertained the Tri-States for 40 years and just made people feel good when he was around them, died Thursday in Quincy. Oliver, 69, retired from the airwaves in 2016 and revealed he was battling Alzheimer’s Disease a year later. A Pittsfield, Ill. native, Oliver, known as…
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MRN Top 50 stories: Behavior of adults in prep sports, Bliefnick case lead list of most read in 2023
Listed below are the most-read stories on Muddy River News for 2023. The rankings are provided by our analytics, not anyone’s opinion. Not surprisingly, the tragic murder of Becky Bliefnick by her estranged husband, Tim Bliefnick, and his subsequent trial were the dominant overall news stories of the year. But as far as one singular…
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QUINCY — The Herald-Whig, the local newspaper based out of Quincy, announced Thursday it would only produce printed editions on Wednesdays and Saturdays, beginning Jan. 6. This move comes after the Phillips Media Group-owned publication announced in October a plan to continue to provide some subscribers a print product five days a week and some…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Hannibal Police arrested a man Tuesday after he attempted to elude them on his bicycle. Just before 8 a.m. Tuesday, an officer was patrolling the 2300 block of Chestnut and saw a man riding a bicycle on the sidewalk. The officer believed the rider was Jeffery R Dietle, 33, of Hannibal, who…
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Local government was rather contentious in 2023. A reflection of the frustration many feel with the polarized politics in today’s world. A lack of consensus or willingness to achieve goals for the common good unfortunately seem to prevail. Anyway, here are the most read governmental stories of 2023, according to MRN Analytics. 1. A couple…
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There were many new business developments in Quincy in 2023 and Muddy River News told you about most of them. Here are the ones that interested you the most, based on our analytics. 1. Quincy City Planner Chuck Bevelheimer said in August (without personally saying it was Raising Cane’s) the prospective restaurant must work within Target’s…
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Meterologist Brent Clair said we might finally see a little snow. Might. Maybe. Here’s his forecast.
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QUINCY — Rather than pay success fees to NextSite LLC for the next two years, the Quincy City Council voted Monday night to pay a one-time contract termination fee. Aldermen on Dec. 5 tabled for one week a vote to pay a $15,000 success fee to NextSite, a commercial development advisory firm, for its role…
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QUINCY — The Quincy City Council approved for the city to enter a three-year contract with MasTrack of Danbury, Conn., for $82,190 on GPS tracking equipment on city vehicles. Marty Stegeman, director of transit for the city, said after Monday night’s meeting he expects to present to aldermen on Jan. 8 a proposal to “considerably…
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