KMIZ — Jefferson City police arrested one man after he allegedly started a fire in his apartment and called in an active shooter situation at the 10/12 Jackson Street Housing complex Thursday morning. When police first arrived, a complete tenant evacuation was in process for the elderly and disabled residents. …

KMIZ — Shots were fired at a Jefferson City park late Wednesday, Officers found more than 16 spent casings after being sent at about 11 p.m. to McClung Park, the Jefferson City Police Department said in a news release. Police also found a .40-caliber handgun. No one was injured, police …

Is your internet service less than ideal out in your rural area of Cole County? Presiding Commissioner Sam Bushman says they’re trying to fix that …       There’s also another firm looking to upgrade broadband in both Cole and Osage counties. Cole County commissioners say that they’ve been told CARES Act …

KMIZ — A Kingdom City man has pleaded guilty to child molestation after admitting to touching a 14-year-old BOY in a car. Kevin Lee Brake, 60, said in Nov. 2020, he touched the 14-year-old through his clothing while giving the teen a ride from Fulton to a Kingdom City restaurant. …

(AP) — A Cole County judge has ordered Missouri to begin collecting union dues from prison workers, finding that an attempt by Gov. Mike Parson’s administration to break the union is illegal. In a scathing, 43-page decision, Circuit Judge Jon Beetem said it was “unconstitutional, arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable” that …

(AP) — A Mid – Missouri man was put to death Tuesday for killing three workers while robbing a Columbia convenience store nearly three decades ago, an execution performed over objections from racial justice activists, lawmakers and even the pope. Ernest Johnson died from an injection of pentobarbital at the …

A former Missouri Democrat Governor tries to stay the executioner’s hand. Bob Holden asked Governor Mike Parson to stop Ernest Lee Johnson’s execution …      Johnson was sentenced to death for killing three Casey’s General Store employees in Columbia in 1994. Holden okayed 15 – executions during his term, including that …

(AP) — Two Missouri men have been charged in the kidnapping of a woman who went missing in July, after investigators found photos of her, nearly naked and apparently locked in a cage, on one of their phones. Fifty-eight-year-old James Phelps and 56-year-old Timothy Norton have been in jail since …

Will the Governor spare a Mid – Missouri man who faces lethal injection tonight (Tues)? Ernest Lee Johnson has spent decades on death row after being convicted of killing three victims in a Columbia convenience store. Jefferson City’s Kevin Green spent 16 – years in San Quentin after being wrongly …

KMIZ — A Cole County prosecutor has charged a woman after she allegedly broke into a church, stole money, a musical instrument and a computer then set a cross on fire on June 1. Anne-Marie Mullins is charged with second-degree arson, second-degree burglary, stealing, first-degree property damage, tampering with physical …