Month: August 2019

A patient or licensed caregiver can grow up to six flowering marijuana plants at home in Missouri after obtaining a cultivation identification card. Marijuana legal expert Dan Viets said people must follow security requirements to cultivate their own marijuana under Amendment 2, which Missouri voters approved in November. “That could be as simple as a

Some city workers want the City Council to make a change to the Fiscal Year 2020 budget. Eric Scott is a union representative from LiUNA for Local Union 773. He spoke at Monday’s council meeting, representing those who work for public works. Some city employees are unhappy with how they qualify for mid-point pay in

Authorities are searching for a man who allegedly fled law enforcement officers. The Morgan County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook that the Eldon Police Department was involved in a pursuit with a motorcycle on Highway 52. The chase ended just south of Route OO on Wilkes Creek Road in Morgan County. Police and deputies searched

Experts on the federal and state level are working to educate Missouri employers about the state’s new medical marijuana laws. “It’s going to be a little different for everybody, its taking a look at what you’re comfortable with if you are the owner of a small business to your large businesses, what does this mean

The defense attorney for a Columbia man charged with paying another man to set fire to a mobile home sought to discredit witnesses and the woman who lived in the trailer during opening arguments Wednesday. Mehrdad Fotoohighiam was charged with first-degree arson, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder, but his trial this

A man with a felony warrant has been arrested after police found him at a Jefferson City storage facility. According to court documents, police were called to Black Hawk Storage on June 16 for suspicious activity. There, they say they found two people standing by a car, one of them being Walter Carlson. He allegedly

TONIGHT: Showers and storms last into the overnight hours. Some storms may be strong with locally damaging winds and isolated large hail. Heavy rain is the main concern with 2-4″ possible in some locations. Lows in the upper 60s. THURSDAY: Rain continues through the morning with areas south of I-70 seeing the most consistent showers.

Heavy rain and strong thunderstorms are possible tonight into Thursday morning across Mid-Missouri, where a Flash Flood Watch is in place through late Thursday morning. A cold front is slowly sinking south across the region, and will continue to trigger showers and thunderstorms tonight into early Thursday. This front, coupled with ample instability and moisture

A new restaurant opened in downtown Columbia this week, bringing a Mexican flare to the streets of Columbia. Paleteria El Tajin was given the green light to open after the Boone County/Columbia Public Health Department gave them an operating permit Aug. 1. “There is nothing like this here in Columbia,” co-founder Yoselin Herrera said. “We’re

More students are transferring to the University of Missouri from community colleges than in past years, MU officials said Wednesday. The university in a news release said about 1,190 students have transferred to MU from other institutions, which is about a 16 percent increase from last fall. According to the release, about 30,000 students in

A private company’s data breach might have led to the release of some School of the Osage student information, administrators warned parents and patrons on the district website this week. Pearson AIMSweb, a contractor used by schools “to provide support and educational services to individual students,” told school leaders that some data stored on its

Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday directed lawmakers to undo a recent Missouri Supreme Court ruling on vehicle sales taxes during a special legislative session next month, a move one Democrat called “unnecessary.” The Republican governor scheduled the special session to begin Sept. 9, the same week as a scheduled short session for lawmakers to consider

An insurance company is asking a judge to determine who has the legal claim of a $150,000 life insurance policy after the insured person died in December when his wife allegedly poisoned him and set their house on fire. American Family Life Insurance filed the complaint in federal court on Wednesday to determine who has

Tony St. Romaine, who retired in 2016 from the deputy city manager position in Columbia, has been hired as the interim city administrator in Ashland. The city of Ashland said in a news release Wednesday that Ashland’s board of alderman appointed St. Romaine to be the part-time city administrator — a position that has been

WEDNESDAY: Rain moves in early and will be off and on throughout the day. LIVE PLAYBACK of Wednesday morning weather conditions can be viewed in the player below. Heavy rain at times could cause some localized flooding problems if storms set up overhead of a particular spot. We’ll be getting warm in spots where we

Fulton Police Department said it arrested a man for allegedly resisting arrest and unlawfully possessing a firearm Wednesday. Authorities responded to reports of a fight involving several people with guns at the McDonald’s on South Business 54 in Fulton shortly before 2 a.m. Wednesday. Charles Braxton, 43, was at the scene. Officers said he fled

A Lebanon man died after he fell while fishing on the Osage Fork of the Gasconade River. Benny Wilson, 62, was fishing from an elevated location when he slipped and fell into about 10 feet of water and drowned. The Laclede County coroner pronounced Wilson dead at the scene. The Missouri State Highway Patrol responded

Police at the scene say they arrested at least one person after a domestic incident causing minor injuries in northern Columbia Tuesday night. Multiple Columbia police vehicles responded to the area of Holly Avenue and Parker Street near the Kittyhawk Apartment complex. A CPD officer said a knife was involved in the incident, but no

A former Columbia resident who police say admitted to killing his wife in 2006 was booked into the Boone County Jail Tuesday. Boone County prosecutors charged Keith Comfort with second-degree murder this month after he allegedly told police in Wisconsin that he killed his wife, who has been considered missing for more than a decade.

The Maries County sheriff said Tuesday that his department is interrogating suspects in a fire that led to injuries for six volunteer firefighters. Maries County Sheriff Chris Heitman said the investigation is going to continue thorugh the week, and he hoped to submit information to prosecutors for charges to be filed soon. “They could be