Fire heavily damaged a home at 1128 Fourth Street in Platte City Tuesday night. The Central Platte Fire Department responded to the blaze around 8:30 p.m. to find flames erupting from the south side of the three-story 1880-era frame home. There was no one home at the time of the fire. Known to local historians as the Coots house, the home is now owned and occupied by Mark Hansen. Hansen was out of town and unavailable for comment. Mayor Frank Offutt’s home is just to the south of Hansen’s home. Offutt said Hansen has extensively remodeled the structure over the last decade.
A Kansas City man was sentenced to 17 years in prison last week after killing one woman and injuring another in a crash while driving drunk at 152 miles per hour. John A. McNamara, 27, had earlier pleaded guilty in Platte County Circuit Court to involuntary manslaughter and assault resulting from an Aug. 22, 2010 crash that killed Abby Cockrill, 22, of Platte City.
At Tuesday evening’s meeting of the Platte City Economic Development Sub-committee, representatives of Time Warner Cable listened to and addressed citizen complaints about the company’s service.
Laura Rogge of Weston was stricken with a rare blood disease in 1998 and has been in and out of hospitals since then. She is now in need of a kidney transplant.
