ABC – 17 — Missouri Task Force 1 has been activated for deployment to Kentucky in response to the devastating tornados that struck the state on Friday evening. The task force will be headed to Murray State University to stage and await their mission assignment. The target is to arrive …

(AP) — Missouri officials are continuing to assess the damage caused by tornadoes that killed at least two people in the state this weekend. Gov. Mike Parson visited St. Charles and Pemiscot counties Sunday to see the aftermath of the storms that moved through Friday night. The same storm system …

Cole County’s Commissioners and County Assessor Chris Estes have been going around and around during their recent budget discussions. They claim Estes’ complaints about his computer software not being up to the job are unfounded. They say the system seems to work just fine for the Collector’s office …     Estes …

Abc – 17 — A jury on Thursday recommended more than a decade in prison for a woman convicted in her husband’s Montgomery County killing. Jurors recommended sentencing Lynlee Renick to 13 years in prison for second-degree murder and three years in prison on armed criminal action. Judge Kevin Crane …

Abc – 17 — The Auxvasse police chief was suspended Thursday after he was arrested Tuesday pending an investigation into an incident. Police Chief Kevin Suedmeyer was charged with fourth-degree domestic assault. The 15-year-old at the home told investigators that Suedmeyer was upset with the teen’s grades and showed the …

It must be budget time at the Cole County Courthouse .. the Assessor and the Commissioners are in the middle of their yearly ‘difference of opinion’. Western Commissioner Harry Otto takes exception to Assessor Chris Estes’ claim that the State Tax Commission says that he was regularly reassessing property. Otto …

ABC – 17 — Six people were injured in four separate crashes in Jefferson City on Wednesday, police said. Only one of them suffered serious injuries. Three people were hurt in a crash on the Highway 54/63 southbound Missouri River bridge just before noon A motorcycle rider was badly hurt …

The top lawyer for a Columbia man convicted of killing his wife in 2019 and burying her in Rock Bridge state park wants a new trial. St. Louis defense attorney Scott Rosenblum has filed a five-page motion for a new trial, saying Boone County Judge Brouck Jacobs erred in admitting …

A Missouri statehouse lobbyist thinks lawmakers will turn a kind eye to expunging criminal records of Missourians who were caught with marijuana …      Eapen Thampy also agrees with the Governor that lawmakers need to continue the debate on legalizing marijuana in Missouri. Thampy is still facing federal charges after …

ABC – 17 — A Fulton bus driver was fired Tuesday after being caught on video using his phone while driving students. The bus driver, 73-year-old Gary Storch said some of the things parents are saying about him aren’t true. Storch said he was only trying to bring a little …