Columbia residents have only been using trash roll carts since early March but several thousand of them are already turning in their original carts. City officials say the vast majority of the 2400 exchanges are for a larger size roll cart. Columbia councilmen voted to dump the old trash bags …

Last night’s storms knocked out power all across Mid – Missouri. Outages were reported in Moniteau, Pettis, Miller, Morgan, Cooper and other counties. Saline County had the worst of it. Nearly 1000 – customers were without power for a time. High winds blew tree limbs onto powerlines. More weather is …

Rocheport Republican Chuck Basye said this morning he is withdrawing from the campaign for state senator from Boone County because of a recent cancer diagnosis. Basye entered the race at the filing deadline late last month against Democrat Stephen Webber. The seat is currently held by Republican Caleb Rowden of …

A court case is over after former Callaway County Sheriff Clay Chism turns in a letter of resignation. Chism’s peace officer’s license was revoked after his off -duty drunk driving arrest in Moberly, but he stayed on the county payroll. The Callaway County Prosecutor has now filed a motion to …

Are anti – Israel protests about to break out on the Mizzou campus? Dan Swindell is a member of a pro – Israel Jewish group at the University. He says recently they put up flyers promoting a Columbia speech by some Hamas Massacre survivors … Others say they saw plenty …

A Holts Summit man is accused of child sex crimes. 53 – year old Freeman Myron Larnerd was charged with child porn possession, statutory sodomy, statutory rape and tampering with a victim. Investigators got a call from a woman who told them her 14 – year old niece was sending …

You don’t get to pick your Presidential candidate in the August primary. That’s because Missouri lawmakers eliminated the state’s Presidential Preference Primary. State Rep. Rudy Veit knows Mid – Missourians want their say … There is a bill in the State Senate to hold a Presidential Primary in Missouri on …

Two people are hurt after a car ran into a school bus in Jefferson City. The car driver, McCaila Wright of Jefferson City, turned on Dix Road from Industrial Drive. Police say she then lost control and hit the bus in the intersection. Wright and her passenger only suffered minor …

A couple of Missouri elected officials tangled at Lincoln Days in Perryville. A video shows some expletives being exchanged between Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and Senator Denny Hoskins. Senator Bill Eigel was nearby. He says it apparently happened when Ashcroft confronted Hoskins’s wife … Eigel and Ashcroft are both …

Columbia Parks and Recreation will take out another homeless camp at Broadway and Old 63 today. MoDOT cleaned up a homeless camp in March along I-70 near the Providence Rd. intersection. The city also had to clear out one camp near the area twice within the past year. Jefferson City …