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Latest FBI crime statistics show increasing number of violent crimes in Missouri
Violent crime in the state of Missouri increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new FBI crime data.
Continue ReadingViolent crime in the state of Missouri increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new FBI crime data.
Continue ReadingA petition to reinstate a fired officer to the Centralia Police Department has gained more than 300 signatures amid fallout from the resignation of two other members of the small department.
Continue ReadingA Jefferson City man was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to a shooting and robbery in Sept. 2020 in Boone County.
Continue ReadingThe Ashland Police Department said in a news release that officers were sent to a report of a missing juvenile before 7 a.m. Wednesday and found the child with Cole Chandler, 19, of Ashland. Police determined Chandler had received or possessed at least one pornographic picture of a minor, according to the release, and arrested him.
Continue ReadingJohnson was convicted in 1994 and sentenced to death for the murders of three Columbia convenience store workers with a claw hammer. Legal challenges to his sentence have failed. However, death penalty foes are asking the governor to intervene, saying Johnson is intellectually disabled.
Continue ReadingA Moniteau County prosecutor has charged a Jamestown man with multiple counts of burglary and tampering with a vehicle after multiple incidents last Saturday.
Continue ReadingA Morgan County prosecutor has charged a Stover man with sex crimes against a child after an alleged sexual assault occurred in Sept.
Continue Reading$1.8 Million in Grants given out to 19 agencies across Missouri to investigate crimes against children
Continue ReadingCentralia residents are asking the city for more transparency after the police chief on Friday submitted his letter of resignation.
Continue ReadingAnti-death penalty advocates delivered a petition Wednesday asking the state to spare the life of Ernest Johnson, saying his intellectual disability makes it unconstitutional to execute the man convicted of a Columbia triple murder.
Continue ReadingA Cole County judge granted a change of venue and a request for a new judge for a woman charged in the 2018 death of a Jefferson City child.
Continue ReadingCharles Waddill pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree involuntary manslaughter, leaving the scene of a crash that caused a death and tampering with evidence.
Continue ReadingJon Mark Wilson, 57, pleaded guilty to one count of interstate facilities in the commission of murder for hire.
Continue ReadingAttorney General Eric Schmitt sought a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit he filed last month to end CPS’s mandate that all students and staff wear masks while indoors. Judge Brouck Jacobs denied that request in a two-plus-hour hearing Tuesday, along with a request to make the lawsuit class action, which would bring in other schools with mandates as defendants.
Continue ReadingThe Mexico Public Safety Department is investigating after a bullet damaged the the building’s siding Sunday morning.
Continue ReadingSPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri couple have pleaded guilty for their roles in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in January. The Kansas City Star reports that 30-year-old Kelsey Wilson and 32-year-old Zachary Wilson, both of Springfield, each pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to a misdemeanor count of knowingly entering or remaining in
Continue ReadingShots were fired over the weekend in downtown Columbia, a week after two people were hit by bullets in the same area. Weekend shootings in the crowded downtown area are not unheard of but remain relatively uncommon. However, the crowded nature of downtown on weekend nights brings extra danger to those incidents. Are you worried
Continue ReadingA Boone County prosecutor has charged a Columbia woman after a Sunday morning assault where the suspect cut the victim with knives.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia city leaders are again looking to the 2014 Mayor’s Task Force on Community Violence in response to the recent shootings on Fifth St. downtown. Police say shots were fired Sunday on Broadway and Fifth Streets, but no injuries were reported. On Sept. 18, just a block away, two people were shot
Continue ReadingIn this federal case in the Eastern District of New York, Kelly faced a total of nine counts — one count of racketeering, with 14 underlying acts that included sexual exploitation of a child, kidnapping, bribery and sex trafficking charges, and also eight additional counts of violations of the Mann Act, a sex trafficking law.
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