IMES — A 12-year-old Ottawa boy was taken to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City after his dirt bike ran into a pickup Tuesday afternoon. The Franklin County Sheriff’s Department said the boy was driving the dirt bike east in the 3600 block of Haskell Road east of Princeton when he ran the stop sign at Oregon Road. The boy collided into the side of a pickup driven by Richard Mullins, 72, Rantoul; who was traveling south on Oregon Road, the sheriff’s office said.
Wednesday, May 23, 3 p.m.