Suicide

Sedalia Officers and Pettis County Deputies attempted to talk to the man in the truck, but he refused to exit the vehicle.

"Get Mental Health First Aid Training" said the flyer e-mailed to me by DeFeet.org. My question is: What is mental health first aid training?

Emotions were running high Thursday afternoon at Smith-Cotton High School, where a rally to address the issue of bullying was held in the parking lot.

Officers with the Sedalia Police Department and troopers from the Missouri State Highway Patrol were called to a residence in the 200 block of S. Park on Friday afternoon after a bullet hole was observed in a front window of the home.

Memory Lane Foundation for Suicide Prevention founder, Amanda Eisenbarth joined us in the studio with Pettis County Sheriff Kevin Bond to discuss the upcoming Stepping It Up program event.

Warrensburg Police have released more details regarding a gunman who took his own life following a traffic stop near Warrensburg High School on Friday morning (April 11). The man was identified at 18-year-old Kyle M. Wittrock of Warrensburg, a senior attending Warrensburg High School.

Mental health can be one of those topics that some of us don't like to discuss. It's something we often kind of push under the rug, telling ourselves that we need to "suck it up" or "deal with it" and not be open about our struggles. That's where, unfortunately, many lives go astray.

Convicted Cleveland kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro was found dead late Tuesday in his prison cell in Ohio. The New York Daily News reports the 52-year-old hung himself.

Billy McKnight -- Mindy McCready's ex-boyfriend and the father to her oldest son, Zander -- says he's not surprised that the singer took her own life on Sunday afternoon. Right now he is worried for his son, as well as McCready's son with David Wilson, 10-month-old Zayne.

One day before Mindy McCready was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, the singer sent a private investigator she had been working with a cryptic message. It was a single frame from a video they had been working on together of McCready singing a song called 'I'll See You Yesterday.'