KWOS Jefferson City News Authority

(Fox News) — Hurricane Florence’s eyewall is onshore in North Carolina on Friday and will make landfall ‘very soon,’ as the Category 1 storm lashed the Carolina coast and appeared ready to cause catastrophic flooding. The storm was about 10 miles east of Wilmington, N.C., and about 80 miles east-northeast …

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Investigators now say the unknown, green granular substance sent in an envelope to a Missouri lawmaker earlier this year was rat poison. Missouri Senate Administrator Patrick Baker on Wednesday said Capitol police determined the substance sent to Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal was pesticide. Initial analysis suggested it …

Water rescues have already started in North Carolina, as Hurricane Florence dumps heavy rain on the East Coast. Fifty members of Boone County-based Missouri Task Force 1 set up shop yesterday (thur) in the towns of Leland and Bolivia. The local emergency responders will mostly focus on water rescues. Eight …

Gary Wilbers says it took a real community partnership to ‘steal’ the new Special Olympics Training For Life site away from Columbia. The 32-thousand square foot complex, that was originally planned for Boone County, opened on Jefferson City’s Christy Drive today .. The $18 million campus includes workout space and …