Month: September 2019

Columbia city officials say it could take years before they make any safety improvements to Clark Lane. Battle High School student Claudine Nibigira, 17, was hit and killed by a vehicle Monday night on Clark Lane in a stretch of road that doesn’t have a sidewalk. The city has an initiative in place to eliminate

Improving mental health care is the No. 1 health priority for Columbia and Boone County, according to a health department report released Wednesday. The department released its 2019 Community Health Improvement Plan on Wednesday. For the 2019 Community Health Improvement Plan released Wednesday, the Columbia/Boone County Department of Health and Human Services surveyed 257 people.

TONIGHT: Partly cloudy to mostly clear with lows near 70. THURSDAY: Mostly sunny to partly cloudy with a chance of isolated showers or storms. Highs near 90, heat index in the mid-upper 90s. EXTENDED: The upper level ridge will move east by Friday, bringing a few disturbances in from the southwest. Showers and storms will

Freshman enrollment at the University of Missouri has increased by double digits for the second straight year, according to MU’s four-week count of students. Freshman enrollment is up by 16 percent, according to numbers released Tuesday. That’s in line with the increase reported on the first day of classes in August. Total enrollment increased about

The Boone County/Columbia Public Health Department inspects any local businesses that prepare food, but some of those inspections begin as complaints. Health Department Assistant Director Scott Clardy said inspectors respond to complaints immediately. “If we get a complaint from a member of the public about something they saw, or they were concerned about, we’ll go

Columbia police are investigating a robbery at Phillips 66 on Nifong Boulevard. Authorities responded to the gas station at around 4 a.m. Wednesday. Police said Wednesday afternoon in a news release that a man came into the store and implied he had a weapon, but never showed one. Police in a news release described him

The Missouri State Highway Patrol said a child and man who were found dead in Gasconade County on Monday night were both from Belle. Bentlee J. Turner, 4, and Monty J. Barton, 37, were found dead near Barton’s vehicle Monday night by Valentine Ford Road, west of Route A, according to a news release from

The University of Missouri’s annual “Safe Mizzou 2019” week kicked off on Monday. MU is hosting a series of events to help make the university’s community more aware of safety measures on campus. Wednesday’s events include Columbia firefighters setting a replicated dorm room on fire and an active threat training course. At 11:50 a.m. on

A man accused in connection with a Sept. 3 shooting near W. Atchison and Broadway streets was arrested at a Jefferson City home on Friday. Police say Arthur Phillips was seen on security camera footage shooting a gun at a car in the area on Sept. 3. He is also accused of attempting to sell

The Jefferson City School District board approved three alterations to the district’s policy on how it disciplines students in certain situations. In its meeting Monday night, the board voted 5-1, with one board member absent, to grant administrators more discretion in how they punish students involved in the sale or transfer of drugs or alcohol.

WEDNESDAY: Mostly sunny to partly cloudy, with highs in the low 90s . Heat indices will be back in the upper 90s once again. We could pick up a stray storm or two, but it looks like most of us will be dry. TONIGHT: Mostly clear, with overnight lows falling back to near 70. EXTENDED:

Jill Hartleip-Wren said it’s taken time, money and help to get to where her business is right now. Hartleip-Wren started a business with her family and a friend to secure one of the state’s first medical marijuana dispensary licenses. The company, JMMJ LLC, wants to set up the dispensary in the 1300 block of Grand

A multistate medical marijuana company looks to open a cultivation facility in Jefferson City. Columbia Care has 63 facilities across the country in operation or developing and one-million sales to patients, according to the company’s website. The Jefferson City Planning and Zoning Commission said it received a zoning letter request from Columbia Care with the

The University of Missouri and Columbia Public Works received the green light at the city council meeting Monday night to form a one-year pilot program. The program will be a way to regulate the operation and use of scooters and other small vehicles. It is not clear exactly what that regulation will look like because

UPDATE: Power was restored to Hudson, Rollins and Gillett residence halls around 9 p.m. Tuesday after an outage affected 20 buildings on campus. According to a tweet from MU Residential Life, crews were working on the transformer around 8 p.m., and, at the time, repairs were expected to take about three hours. Power was restored

Officials with the Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services is leading a campaign to discourage young people from using e-cigarettes and similar products. Federal health officials are warning users to stop using the devices after hundreds of patients were diagnosed with lung illnesses related to vaping. Over the weekend a California man

Police in Camdenton say they arrested an 18-year-old woman for allegedly selling drugs at a high school football game. According to court documents, police were called to Lake Pride Football Stadium at 662 Laker Pride Road. According to the documents, a school resource officer detained Julia Miller of Lebanon for allegedly selling narcotics at the

Hickman is the first Columbia high school to have a room dedicated to playing video games. Gamers competed Tuesday against Columbia Public Schools Superintendent Peter Stiepleman and Columbia Public Schools Foundation President-elect Abe Bahadori as part of a foundation grant to create the district’s first e-sports room. CPSF gave the high school $8,500 toward the

A month meant to raise awareness and resources for the fight against childhood cancer has drawn a warning from the Better Business Bureau about charity scams. The BBB is warning potential donors to research charities to make sure they are secure and reputable. The organization says to research a charity’s website, look at its mission

The Columbia Housing Authority will authorize the submission of an application for state funding Tuesday. “This is pretty perfunctory,” said Phil Steinhaus, Columbia Housing Authority CEO. “It’s just something we have to do as part of the application process.” CHA is applying for 9 percent low-income housing tax credits to help fund an $8.6 million