The commission approved an agreement for Chapter 100 bonds for Swift Prepared Foods, which plans to build a $200 million facility that will create more than 250 jobs. Officials announced the project in November.
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The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday authorized the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for use as a booster in people ages 16 and 17. It’s the first Covid-19 vaccine booster authorized for this age group in the United States.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The sentencing hearing for a Columbia man convicted last month of killing his wife has been delayed. Public court records show a Boone County judge will hear Joseph Elledge’s lawyers request for a new trial on Friday, Jan. 7. 2022 at 1:30 p.m. Elledge is also expected to receive his sentence at
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Biden said the plan will create good-paying jobs and bring much-needed modernization to the nation’s transportation system. But most Republicans say the plan is too expensive.
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The defense called Lynlee Renick to the stand as the third day of her trial at the Boone County Courthouse began. The trial is being heard here on a change of venue with a jury brought in from Clay County, Missouri.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt said in a letter Wednesday that he will be opening an investigation into Columbia Public Schools’ failure to comply to end COVID-19 mask mandates. This comes after the state’s attorney general’s office received information from CPS parents that the district is not following the court order to
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Photos of President Joe Biden’s Dec. 8, 2021, visit to Kansas City.
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The university told the approximately 75 residents this fall of its plans to close the apartment building on Hitt Street. The move drew criticism from the Coalition of Graduate Workers, a group that advocates for graduate student causes on campus.
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Police say 72-year-old Susan Hanel was driving on Providence Road on Nov. 30 when she turned in front of Skylar Maddox, causing him to crash into her vehicle while on his motorcycle.
Continue Reading President Joe Biden’s first visit to Missouri as acting president was met with criticism from his opponents on the opposite side of the aisle.
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Schmitt said Tuesday that he sent letters to school districts that still require masks ordering them to stop enforcing the mandate, including Columbia Public Schools. Schmitt has also sued the district over its mask rule for all students and workers. No hearings have been scheduled in that case.
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Check back for updates related to the coronavirus pandemic in Missouri.
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Three people were hurt in a crash on the Highway 54/63 southbound Missouri River bridge just before noon when a Ford Fusion changed lanes and hit a Lincoln Towncar, sending the Lincoln into the concrete wall, according to a Jefferson City Police Department news release. All three of the injured people were in the Towncar, and they were taken to a hospital with moderate injuries.
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Deputies identified Kevin Suedmeyer as a suspect after they were called to a domestic disturbance near County Road 325 and Route H in the Carrington area, according to a Callaway County Sheriff’s Office news release. Deputies arrested Suedmeyer that evening on suspicion of fourth-degree domestic assault, according to the release. The sheriff’s office said Suedmeyer was off-duty at the time of the incident.
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Biden boarded Air Force One for Kansas City at 10:28 a.m. Wednesday. Biden is expected to arrive in Kansas City around 1 p.m. before giving remarks to assembled union workers and elected officials, including Gov. Mike Parson, at the Kansas City Transportation Authority at 2:30 p.m.
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President Joe Biden spoke to reporters Wednesday morning in Washington, D.C., before flying to Kansas City for an afternoon speech.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) President Joe Biden will travel to Kansas City Wednesday to deliver remarks on a new infrastructure bill and how it will impact the state of Missouri. The President will land at Kansas City International Airport around 1 p.m. tomorrow before heading to the Kansas City Transportation Authority to give remarks at
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Lynlee Renick told a judge yesterday she plans on taking the witness stand in day three of her murder trial Wendesday, more than three years after she allegedly killed her snake-breeding husband Ben Renick in 2017.
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By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Preliminary lab studies show two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine may not provide sufficient protection against the Omicron coronavirus variant, but three doses are able to neutralize it, the companies said in a news release on Wednesday. Samples from people who had two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine saw, on average,
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