Columbia woman pleads guilty in child abuse case
A Columbia woman originally charged with 11 counts including child abuse pleaded guilty Friday to three abuse counts and two endangerment counts.
Continue ReadingA Columbia woman originally charged with 11 counts including child abuse pleaded guilty Friday to three abuse counts and two endangerment counts.
Continue ReadingProsecutors charged a man with child abuse in Cole County on Sunday.
Continue ReadingThe Columbia Public School District is set to begin virtual classes on Tuesday, but not all students are safe at home.
Continue ReadingROCHEPORT, Mo. (KMIZ) A former Columbia Public Schools employee faces a felony rape allegation from a minor, according to court documents filed this week. Boone County sheriff’s deputies arrested 27-year-old Charles A. Griffin, of Rocheport on Tuesday. He faces a felony count of second-degree statutory rape. CPS spokeswoman Michelle Baumstark said in an email Thursday
Continue ReadingMid-Missouri authorities arrested a Boonville man on Thursday after he was charged with two felonies relating to possession of child pornography.
Continue ReadingThe Cooper County Prosecuting Attorney said his office is recommending a former Boonville radio host serve prison time after allegedly violating the conditions of his probation.
Continue ReadingA former Boonville radio host was sentenced to 5 years of supervised probation after he pleaded guilty to a felony count of child molestation Wednesday.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA Mo. (KMIZ) Search teams returned to the Lamine River on Wednesday, in search of a missing Columbia mother. “Our goal is really to gain some closure for the family and to truly investigate to a point where we find evidence of her body and close the case,” Brittany Hilderbrand, a Columbia Police Department spokesperson
Continue ReadingDeputies with the Cole County Sheriff’s Department arrested a Jefferson City man suspected of child sex crimes Tuesday afternoon.
Continue ReadingSome law enforcement officials say they haven’t necessarily seen more domestic violence cases but they worry about reporting.
Continue ReadingA man and woman face multiple charges in Callaway County after they were both arrested recently.
Continue ReadingCallaway County prosecutors charged an Auxvasse man with multiple child sex crimes after he was accused of having sexual contact with a child younger than 12.
Continue ReadingAccording to the document, Ligon put her child into its crib, then attacked her sister.
Continue ReadingBoone County Circuit Judge Brouck Jacobs set a trial date Thursday in the child abuse case against the husband of a missing Columbia woman.
Continue ReadingA former teacher in Miller County was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to a sex crime against a student.
Continue ReadingOnline court records show he was released from the Cooper County Jail with the condition that he has no direct contact or indirect contact with the victim.
Continue ReadingChristopher Feltner, 41, was sentenced on a charge of statutory sodomy with a child under the age of 12.
Continue ReadingThe lawyer for a Columbia man whose wife disappeared in October is seeking a change of venue in his child abuse case.
Continue ReadingA former assistant football and track coach in the North Callaway School District pleaded guilty to attempted sexual contact with a student.
Continue ReadingLaw enforcement agencies returned to the De Bourgmont Lamine River Access on Tuesday, to search for the missing Columbia mother. The Columbia Police Department along with the Columbia Fire Department and a team of divers took a CFD boat east from the access point on the Lamine River. A CPD detective said this is not
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