(AP) Missouri Lottery revenue has been down in the first five months of the budget year as the best-known games have failed to produce huge jackpots that draw long lines at ticket counters. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that since July 1, overall sales are down more than 3%, or …

Official Statement on the Mizzou Football Program COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri Director of Athletics Jim Sterk has relieved fourth-year Tigers’ football coach Barry Odom of his coaching duties and launched a national search to find the program’s next head coach. “I want to thank Coach Odom for his contributions to our program,” Sterk …

We know the name now for the man accused of shooting at police before he died along Highway 54 in Callaway County yesterday (thur). Christopher Morris of Jefferson City was 41 years old. Investigators say Morris sped away from cops at the capital and raced up 54. Spike strips north …

The woman accused of triggering last week’s AMBER Alert faces two charges. 22-year-old Allison Summerford from Maries County has admitted to having a minor call the police to claim she’d been abducted at gunpoint last Thursday. She says she did that so she could go to Arkansas behind her father’s …

A Jefferson City man pleads guilty to child endangerment charges. Jesse Driskill was charged in connection to a 2018 statutory rape case. Court documents state he had sex with a 13-year-old at his home. He told police he thought she was 16. He’s been sentenced to 12 years in prison …

A Jefferson Cirty man is indicted for the death of a former Lincoln student. Michael Bouchee has been indicted for second-degree murder for the murder of former LU student government leader D’Angelo Bratton-Bland. Police claim Bouchee and Deangelo Frazier were engaged in a drug deal when the shooting occurred. They …

More counties are now eligible for federal assistance. Callaway, Jefferson, Lewis, McDonald, Newton, and Saline counties have all been approved to apply for federal assistance from FEMA. However, Howard and Cooper counties were not inlcuded on the updated list. Communities like Old Franklin and New Franklin have seen major impact …

Columbia investigators team up with the utility department on a decade long missing person report. Keith Comfort allegedly confessed to murdering his wife Megan Shultz before dumping her body in a dumpster and reporting her missing. That was back in 2006. Now, police will be exploring the landfill in northeast …

A Columbia man is arrested for multiple felonies after a domestic violence incident. 42-year-old Ben Foreman allegedly forced a woman into a bedroom and threatened to kill her. The report says he approached her with a knife and cut her left hand before pushing, choking, and punching her. He’s being …