The University of Missouri is reminding its students to ensure they are prepared before heading home for the holidays, as the 2021 fall semester concluded on Friday.
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The Missouri State Highway Patrol and Monroe County Sheriff’s Department has released a SILVER Advisory, after a woman went missing on Thursday.
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Capital Region Medical Center suffered a network-wide outage that affected both its phones and internet communications Friday.
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Reports of a TikTok video that challenges kids to send threats to their school on Friday emerged this week and quickly spread nationwide. Some schools have closed, including Gasconade County R-II, while others are reminding parents that there is no credible threat and telling them police are on the lookout.
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Habitat plans to build 143 homes in the subdivision off Brown Station Road in Columbia to help ease the city’s affordable housing crunch. Show-Me Habitat for Humanity plans to work with local organizations and businesses to build the homes. The ribbon was cut on the first home in the Boone Prairie subdivision in a Friday afternoon event.
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The old hat factory sits on a 7.9-acre Superfund site in Vienna that includes two public drinking wells contaminated by the factory’s operations. Two companies operated on the site from 1952 to 1996, contaminating the soil and groundwater with harmful compounds called PCEs which are believed to contribute to cancer.
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Check back for updates related to the coronavirus pandemic in Missouri.
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The sheriff’s office Facebook page posted 11 photos that showed a range of hardware tools and a trailer. Various people were in the comment section of the post thanking the office for its work.Â
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“The team is in good spirits and proud to have been able to assist the citizens of Kentucky”, the Boone County Fire Protection District wrote in a Facebook post. The team is based at the fire district headquarters.
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PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman is in serious condition following a crash on eastbound I-44 in Phelps County on Thursday morning. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Terri K. Hudson, 64, of Union, Missouri, crashed into a guardrail several times after her vehicle went off of the road and hit an embankment around
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School districts across Mid-Missouri say they’ve been made aware of a trend on social media app TikTok that challenges kids to threaten their schools.
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Last week some students made a social media threat toward a Jefferson City middle school. They might face criminal charges. This Thursday, a TikTok challenge telling students to make bomb and shooting threats at their schools grabbed administrators’ attention nationwide.
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Boone County leaders are looking toward a possible internet sales tax to increase revenue for the county and local businesses.
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Dana R. Day Jr., 31, was found guilty Wednesday on one count of being a felon with a gun and ammunition after a jury deliberated for about an hour and 15 minutes following a two-day trial, according to a news release. Another person had bought the gun for him, the prosecutor’s office said.
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Students who were involved in a social media threat against Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Jefferson City have been suspended and are being referred for expulsion and police investigation, the principal said in a letter to parents sent over the weekend.
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Parson’s office said the governor has asked FEMA to work with teams in Dunklin, Pemiscot and Reynolds County in southeast Missouri to catalog the damage. The worst damage happened to electric cooperatives in Dunklin and Pemiscot counties, taking out power to 30,000 members at its peak, according to a release from Parson’s office.
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An Ashland man charged with two felonies in March 2020 for allegedly telling Jefferson City store clerks he had COVID-19 and asking them if they wanted the disease took a plea deal this week and received probation.
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The crash happened a little before 1:30 a.m. when a truck driven by Timothy Reiner, 36, of Tarkio, Missouri, went out of its lane on the on-ramp and crashed into a curb and street sign, the Jefferson City Police Department said in a news release. The truck drove up onto a concrete divider and began to go back onto Highway 54 before hitting the side of a concrete bridge and landing on its side, police say.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. EDITOR’S NOTE: Google Fiber’s name has been corrected. Google Fiber may soon offer its gigabit internet service to customers in Mid-Missouri. The company and Columbia talked on Tuesday about what it would take to bring Google Fiber to the city. A spokesman for Columbia said the conversation focused on the permitting and inspection
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