Month: June 2017

With the Fourth of July holiday approaching, mid-Missouri police departments are reminding residents where they can and can’t set off fireworks. The Columbia Police Department set up a message board on Rangeline Street Thursday that read, “Firework illegal in city. Enforcement Up.” Columbia’s fireworks ordinance only allows sparklers within the city limits. All other fireworks

An IRS scam has been reported to Columbia Police multiple times in the past week. Police say they have received several reports of a caller claiming to work for the IRS. The caller threatens the person on the phone with a lawsuit and tries to learn personal and financial information about that person. Police say

A trial date is scheduled for a Fulton man charged with second-degree murder and leaving the scene of an accident. A Grand Jury indicted Ralph Ringer in September 2016. He’s suspected of killing 36-year-old Kiran Lamichhane outside of ABC Labs where he worked. Ringer allegedly left the scene after hitting Lamichhane, who died from his

Both building staff and the Columbia Fire Department cited issues with a proposed agriculture park in central city. The city’s Parks and Recreation Department and a collective of local agriculture groups known as Friends of the Farm are working on the Clary-Shy Park. The park, expected to break ground this fall near West Middle School,

TONIGHT: Tonight will be a cool with overnight lows in the upper 50s under mostly clear skies. Northwest wind will decrease to 4 mph by morning. SATURDAY: After a cool start, temperatures will climb to the upper 70s, touching near 80 with mostly sunny skies, low humidity and northerly winds at 6-12 mph. EXTENDED: Lows

On Friday, the Missouri Department of Public Safety announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, had approved $8.9 million in assistance grants for survivors of Missouri’s spring flooding and nearly 1,400 applicants for assistance. The National Flood Insurance Program has also processed more than half of the 1,300 claims filed by Missouri policy

JEFFTRAN is getting some new technology, and officials hope it will help boost ridership. This week, the Jefferson City Council approved a more than $318,000 contract for upgrades that will include transit system vehicle locators so that riders can track the buses in near-real time. Eighty percent of the contract will be funded through a

On Friday, a Jefferson City man was charged with property damage after being accused of taking a bat to a vehicle. According to police, the incident involving Emmit Dorsey happened in late May. Police found Dorsey and a bat with glass shards on it only a few block away from where the victim said a

The UM Board of Curators unanimously voted to rescind Bill Cosby’s honorary degree at their meeting Friday. President Dr. Mun Choi asked the curators to formally take action, citing a 2005 deposition in which the actor admitted to purchasing Quaaludes to give to women to have sex. The actor’s sexual assault trial ended in a

On Friday, the City of Belle lost a small claims lawsuit against a company that claimed it shut off water services to the company’s property. According to court documents, Landry’s Properties, LLC, said Belle Mayor, Steve Vogt, illegally shut off the water to a four-apartment complex on May 2. “It should be noted that there

Broadway Hotel owner David Parmley was left wondering Friday just what the impact of the University of Missouri’s decision to rent out some of its residence hall rooms to families would have on the local hospitality industry. He said he’s going to wait and see, but he knows that the university could be competing with

As part of their Crisis Intervention Team, or CIT, training on Friday dispatchers learned how to effectively gather information, relay information to fellow law enforcement officers as well as attempt to defuse a situation from over the phone. After two presentations on negotiation tactics and stress management, participants worked together to defuse a simulated suicidal

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill says the Senate’s healthcare bill is “exactly what you’d expect when the future of healthcare gets negotiated in a secret backroom deal.” According to McCaskill, the bill “hikes costs for working families, strips protections from Missourians who’ve been sick before and slices critical resources for rural healthcare and anti-opioid efforts.” McCaskill

In these times of, perhaps, too much information and what some like to call “fake news,” it can be hard to know who to trust. Lyrissa Lidsky is the new dean of the University of Missouri School of Law and a First Amendment expert. As our guest for This Week, she starts our conversation by

TODAY: Winds have transitioned out of the north due to the the cold front that passed through the morning. High temps today will be cooler behind the front, skies will be clear, with less humid conditions. Highs will top out in the lower 80s, with no heat index to worry about. Winds out of the

My House Nightclub and Sports Bar was cited for misdemeanor littering on Monday and still potentially faces charges from the city Stormwater Utility. Today the city Law Department will meet with Stormwater Utility to assess possible damages concerning the Styrofoam-like decorations that fell into storm drains on 7th Street following last weekend’s “Christmas at the

Last week’s drought monitor showed some areas in mid-Missouri under abnormally dry conditions, with northern Missouri under a moderate drought. This week Missouri saw improvements in drought conditions as northern Missouri received up to 3-6 inches of rain last week. The latest drought monitor shows no drought in mid-Missouri, but in northern Missouri 11 counties

UPDATE: Police say two men went into the store armed with firearms and demanded money. The men were able to retrieve an unknown amount of money and fled. The K9 unit came and tracked the two men to the back of the business. Police believe the men got into a car. Police have made no

UPDATE: The Tipton police were the ones who initiated the traffic stop. MSHP troopers were the ones who were called to investigate the crash and will recreate it. ORIGINAL: The Missouri Highway Patrol will investigate a deadly crash in Cooper County. It happened around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon near Potts Lane. Troopers said they tried

TODAY: Through the morning a passing cold front will be tracking through mid-Missouri bringing a line of storms ahead of it. As it tracks severe weather is unlikely as the storms will begin to weaken and fall apart. By the afternoon the showers and storms will move out of SE mid-Mo. Temperatures will be cooler