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A Jefferson City middle school and high school briefly were put on “lockout” Friday afternoon. The district says during a lockout school campuses are secured because of an external threat or other issue outside the school. Students and staff are directed to go inside the building and all exterior doors are secured. The lockouts at

The Missouri Department of Transportation reopened Route K in Callaway County on Friday after parts of it washed out during heavy rainfall earlier this week. MoDOT said the washout happened Sunday night about 3 miles east of the Route D intersection. Officials had hoped to have the road reopened Thursday. The Missouri State Highway Patrol

An Arkansas man was arrested on suspicion of driving drunk after a crash Thursday in Camden County. A Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper arrested Shane A. Russell, 52, of Rogers, Arkansas, after a crash at about 9:20 p.m. on Highway 5, according to the patrol’s online traffic crash and arrest reports. Russell was arrested on

A Georgia-based accounting firm completed a fiscal assessment of Lincoln University, according to LU spokesperson Misty Young. In a news release distributed Friday, Young said the university contracted The Wesley Peachtree Group to perform a “comprehensive assessment and to provide objective information and counsel to University administrators and curators.” The press release said the firm’s

Two crashes on Interstate 70 at the Missouri River Bridge near Rocheport caused traffic delays Friday afternoon. A LIVESTREAM of the second crash can be viewed in the player below. No one was hurt in the first crash that happened around 1:30 p.m. on Friday, according to Boone County Fire Protection District spokesman Gale Blomenkamp.

More than 2,000 Ameren Missouri customers in the Apache Flats area near Jefferson City were without power on Friday morning after storms rolled through the area. A lightning strike caused the outage after it hit one of the main infrastructure areas, said an Ameren spokeswoman. Approximately 2,200 customers were without power due to the outage.

The Missouri attorney general’s office says Gov. Mike Parson should stop using the First Amendment to justify withholding some public information. Parson’s office has cited the First Amendment when refusing to release information such as phone numbers, addresses and emails of private citizens who contacted the governor’s office. The Kansas City Star reports Deputy Attorney

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved money to help rebuild four levees in the Jefferson City area. Local officials have also sought help to work on another levee, the large Capital View levee that protects the Jefferson City Memorial Airport and farms, businesses and residences in North Jefferson City, said James Lowe, a

A Fulton man was arrested on Thursday after he allegedly hit someone with a golf cart and led police on a chase. The Fulton Police Department originally responded to an address on Gross Place for a stealing in progress where they found that Zachariah W. McReynolds had allegedly stolen a golf cart and struck the

The Jefferson City School District said Friday morning that its phone system was down. The district reported on its social media accounts that phone service to most of its buildings were down a little after 10 a.m. Friday. The district encouraged anyone who needs to get in touch with the school to email lori.armour@jcschools.us and

FRIDAY: Storms will stick with us through this morning. Some of these may be strong with heavy rain and some gusty winds the main threats, but with more stable air in place these will likely be weakening as they move in. With clouds hanging around during the afternoon, highs in the upper 70s . TONIGHT:

The Jefferson City Best Buy heightened security after a Thursday morning burglary. The Jefferson City Police Department said Best Buy was burglarized around 4:30 a.m. on Thursday. Police said one suspect is in custody, and four other suspects are still at large. According to Central Missouri Security Services CEO, Jim Clark, the company has been

Law enforcement officials confirm a burglary at a Best Buy in Jefferson City, Missouri is connected to a string of burglaries across the country. Hammond Police Chief Edwin Bergeron Jr. said his department arrested four men last week from Houston who allegedly burglarized multiple Best Buys in Alabama and Mississippi. “The burglaries that are occurring

Columbia police continue to search for those responsible for shooting a man Wednesday night at an apartment complex. The shooting at Columbia Square Apartments on Wednesday night marked at least the third instance of gun violence this week. Police said a man suffered what appeared to be non-life-threatening gunshot wounds and found several vehicles hit

The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Missourians are receiving $6.4 million in federal disaster relief. Across the state, about 1,400 households have been approved to receive aid through the FEMA individual assistance program. According to a FEMA spokeswoman, residents in Mid-Missouri are receiving about $800,000 in relief. In Cole County, 138 are approved for disaster

The city of Ashland experienced a cyberattack this week, according to city leaders. Interim City Administrator Tony St. Romaine said the attack caused the city to lose access to all of its network files. However, officials said there was no loss or extraction of data. St. Romaine said that city workers were unable to use

The Maries County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a call to the transportation director at Maries County R-II School District. According to a post on the school’s Facebook page, the caller told the director that the district needed to “take care of something happening on a bus” and that the bus was going to be pulled

Bus delays are improving after the first couple days of the new school year, according to the Jefferson City School District. Parents voiced frustration after some buses were delayed up to an hour on Tuesday, the first day of school. There were delays of up to 40 minutes Wednesday and 25 minutes Thursday. All but

The Marshall Police Department is investigating reports of spam calls, according to a post on the department’s Facebook page. The post said people reported a caller claiming to be a police officer or Saline County deputy. The caller reportedly tries to get your personal information by saying they have tried to reach you by mail,

The Missouri Department of Transportation says it will start resurfacing work on Missouri Route 15 on Sept. 3 near Mexico. The work zone will be a half-mile stretch just a bit north of Missouri Route 22. That’s where a gas pipeline explosion severely damaged the road surface in March. “Panhandle Eastern Pipeline is going to