Month: December 2016

A federal appeals court said the city did not violate Columbians First and Fourteenth Amendment rights when it allowed a student apartment developer to build downtown. A three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decided the city abided by its charter in issuing permits for Opus Development to build the District Flats complex

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri lawmaker says President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to slash corporate income taxes could create momentum to eliminate those taxes completely in the state. Republican state Sen. Will Kraus is proposing phasing out Missouri’s 6.25 percent corporate income tax by 2019. Kraus told The Associated Press that the goal is

ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis lawyer has been named chairman of the University of Missouri board of curators. St. Louis attorney Maurice B. Graham is the newly elected chairman of the University of Missouri board of curators. Graham was selected Friday at the board’s meeting in St. Louis to serve the one-year term

This past week, mid-Missouri experienced our first Arctic blast of the season. Temperatures plummeted throughout the week, with daytime highs only reaching into the 20s and wind chills in the single digits. These cold temperatures took a slight break over the weekend, but we are in store for a second wave of Arctic air by

The Maries County Sheriff’s Department said deputies arrested a Belle man for on suspicion of stealing and crashing a truck. Officials said James E. Roberds, 42, is believed to have stolen the truck off County Road 411 last week. He then allegedly wrecked the truck off County Road 2220 in Phelps County. The Sheriff’s Department

Three people were hurt Saturday afternoon in a crash at Highway 54 and Old U.S. 40 in Kingdom City. The two-vehicle crash happened just after 12 p.m. The Highway Patrol said a car traveling north on Highway 54 went through a red light and hit the right side of another car. Both drivers and a

A Bolivar man was taken to the hospital with moderate injuries Friday night after a crash on Highway 50. The crash happened just after 11 p.m. near Stoney Gap Road. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, Allen Rotramel, 47, was driving east on Highway 50 when he went off the left side

TONIGHT: The overcast skies stick around through the remainder of the evening. Thanks to the clouds and southerly winds, temperatures won’t fall as low as what we have been seeing. Compared to the past several nights, tonight will be a mild one with a low of 30 degrees. Winds remaining out of the southeast up

Drivers in Columbia will have to deal with street repairs on Chapel Hill Road for a little while longer. Repairs on Chapel Hill Road westbound from Martinshire Drive to Twin Lakes were supposed to wrap up yesterday, but have now been extended through the week. The work is happening every day from 7 a.m. to

A Florida man was arrested in Callaway County for a felony warrant out of Miami, Florida. Dairan Calderon was arrested by the Missouri State Highway Patrol Friday afternoon. Troopers said he had a felony warrant for selling stolen property in Miami. He also had a misdemanor warrant out of Platte County for failing to secure

There have been at least four house fires in a seven-day span in Boone County. The first happened early Sunday morning on Wilhite Road. The home was a total loss. The second happened on Tuesday night on Perkins Road. A fire official determined the fire started in a bedroom. No one was hurt but a

SATURDAY: Temperatures this morning are 10 degrees warmer than the past several mornings. This is a trend that will carry on into the afternoon hours. For the first time in over 48 hours, we’ll finally thaw out. Temperatures this afternoon will warm into the mid 30s, as winds shift out of the southeast up to

Columbia will store some “critical” data servers offsite at the Boone County 911 center to allow quick recovery from a disaster. The Columbia City Council approved the deal to spend no more than $146,000 for five network server racks within the county-operated Joint Communications center. Boone County already planned on purchasing fourteen racks for data

Columbia Public Schools reassured families there have been no confirmed mumps cases within the district Friday. This came after nearly 200 confirmed and probable cases at the University of Missouri since the start of the fall semester. The district emailed information to parents from the health department about the virus, stating: “having information is important

With Christmas, Hanukkah just around the corner, Mid-Missouri is in the thick of the giving season. If you’re making your final decisions on great causes and effective charities, the 2016 clock is running out. As our guest for “This Week,” Liz Sensintaffar from Woodhaven joins us with a little more about what COMOGives is all

A home was a total loss Friday night after a fire in Boone County. The Boone County Fire Protection District was called out to the home in the 4900 block of West Wolfe Road around 3:23 p.m. According to crews, the fire started in the kitchen. Investigators later determined unattended cooking is what caused the

A Cole County bridge will soon be replaced. Next year, the Missouri Department of Transportation will demolish and rebuild the Route J/M Bridge over Highway 50. It is the bridge at the Taos exit just east of Jefferson City. “The condition of the bridge is very poor, especially the deck. Anybody that’s driven across it

The University of Missouri Board of Curators approved plans Friday to build a new School of Music building on the Columbia campus. Board members unanimously approved the project during their meeting in St. Louis. Friday’s approval will allow the University to start Phase 1 of the project. Fundraising for Phase 2 of the project will

A Rolla man pled guilty to possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute on Thursday. Ronald Robison, 38, of Rolla, was sentenced to 15 years in the Department of Corrections. The evidence for the case was that South Central Drug Task Force officers, assisted by other county law enforcement officers, executed a search warrant

The University of Missouri football program announced the addition of defensive line coach Brick Haley on Friday. Haley comes to Mizzou from the University of Texas, where he coached the defensive line for the last two seasons. With the hiring, Missouri football coach Barry Odom adds a coach with 26 years of experience that includes