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Columbia police and medics continued Thursday to respond to overdoses from synthetic marijuana after authorities reported about a dozen cases Wednesday. Police were called at about 10 a.m. Thursday to Wilkes Boulevard United Methodist Church, which also operates a homeless shelter. Police said they will be heavily patrolling the area and that they have received

As Mid-Missouri prepares for the first snowfall of the season, many will notice that accumulation will be hard to come by initially Thursday evening. Although winter came in with a bang and temperatures are struggling to climb out of the 30s, the ground temperatures are lagging behind. We are still technically in fall and although

Charges have been filed against the captain of a Missouri tourist boat that sank and killed 17 people, including nine people from an Indiana family. A federal indictment released Thursday charges 51-year-old Kenneth Scott McKee with 17 counts of misconduct, negligence or inattention to duty by a ship’s officer, resulting in death. The deaths occurred

A Jefferson City woman charged with child abuse in the death of a 4-year-old boy is asking for a public defender. Quatavia L. Givens, 26, was arraigned Thursday morning in front of Judge Thomas Sodergren in Cole County. Sodergren asked for a bond study, but a hearing to set bond has not been set. Givens

The Missouri State Highway Patrol put out another call for public help Thursday in finding a missing mid-Missouri boy. The patrol issued an endangered person advisory for Braedence Jones, 6, last month. Jones was last seen in the Camdenton area in August and authorities say his mother, Aubrey Ferguson, did not return him to his

Missouri American Water has lifted a boil advisory issued Wednesday for Jefferson City. The utility issued the advisory after two water main breaks that affected service to about 5,500 customers. Water quality tests Thursday afternoon showed the water is safe to drink, the utility said in a release. Customers no longer need to boil water

Senate Republicans have nominated state Sen. Dave Schatz to serve as the next president pro tem of the Missouri Senate. Schatz, of Sullivan, emerged the victor Thursday from a four-way race for the chamber’s top legislative position. His nomination will need confirmation by the full Senate when it convenes in January. Republicans picked Caleb Rowden,

Jefferson City High School dismissed early Thursday because of a broken water line. The Jefferson City school district posted on Twitter that water had to be shut off after a line broke on a unoccupied lower level of the school. The school dismissed at 1:30 p.m. The early dismissal does not apply to other schools.

A water utility has restored service to a large area of Jefferson City after two main breaks left 5,500 customers with little or no water. According to Missouri American Water officials, one 12-inch water main broke Tuesday. The water main was repaired, but then another 12-inch water main broke on Wednesday morning. The outage affected

Two Columbia men have been charged with murder and drug distribution in the shooting death of a teenager. Alex J. Glay, 20, and Erick Libimbi, 20, were each charged with second-degree murder and drug distribution is the Tuesday shooting death of Nasir Smith, 14, at The Links apartment complex. Glay and Libimbi were arrested Tuesday.

THURSDAY: It’s a cloudy and cold afternoon across Mid-Missouri, as highs will struggle to climb into the lower 40s. It’ll feel even colder thanks to a wind chill remaining in the low to mid 30s through most of the day, as winds will be shift out of the northeast up to 10 mph. While the

Hospital costs in Missouri continue to rise in the state, exceeding the costs compared to other states. Data from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows Missourians’ spending on hospital care in 2017 is the 10th-highest in the country as a percentage of their total health care costs. Missourians also paid more in hospital visits than three

THURSDAY: The day starts off with cool and cloudy conditions, leading to a chance of light rain by late afternoon. The dry air in place will eat away at the moisture as it moves in Thursday but by evening rain is possible along with some snow mixing in and changing over to snow. Temperatures will

UPDATE 9:45 p.m.: Police said between 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. five or more of the overdoses occurred in a concentrated area on Wilkes Boulevard near Seventh Street. According to a news release, none of the reported overdoses in Columbia have been fatal. Authorities are asking anyone with information about the current local batch of

The governor’s office must now begin considering an appointment to the Missouri Attorney General’s Office after Josh Hawley’s U.S. Senate win Tuesday. Since 1865, the Missouri attorney general has been elected by a statewide vote. In 2017, Hawley took the oath of office after beating his Democratic opponent by approximately 500,000 votes. According to Gov.

Columbia’s Water & Light Advisory Board hopes to educate the public on possible changes to the utility’s water rate at an interested parties meeting set for 6 p.m. at Columbia City Hall. The three-tiered summer rate structure was proposed to encourage customers to conserve water use, and to raise funds for increased department costs in

The federal government regulates which, and what percentage of, medical treatments and procedures that insurance companies must cover. Nevertheless, as a healthcare consumer, you have a lot more control over pricing that you may think. Shannon Brenneke is a broker at wall street insurance group, based in Jefferson City, Missouri. She specializes in individual, medicare

<TONIGHT: Clouds will build overnight as temperatures drop into the upper 20s north to low 30s south. We’ll see frost by Thursday morning as winds will be fairly light out of the west up to 5 mph. Even though the winds are light, you can expect wind chills to dip into the 20s for the

The Missouri Department of Transportation on Tuesday tested its readiness for the upcoming winter season. MoDOT Engineer Jason Shafer says practice driving the snow plow trucks is essential. “By the time you put a plow on the front and a spreader in the back and on some of the roads that we have, you just

Prescription drug use in the United States has been growing steadily for the past couple of decades. “If you look at the late ’80s [and] early ’90s, the number of pharmaceuticals that we had available was much smaller [because] we didn’t really have lifestyle drugs at that point,” said Bill Morrissey, the head pharmacist at