(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 …

KMIZ — The Jefferson City Council voted Monday to give a contract to demolish four “dangerous” buildings, including some in the East Capitol Avenue area. Council members voted unanimously to pass the bill. The city will demolish all properties at 410 E. Hess Way, 320 E. Miller St., 417 E. …

One of the largest stores on heavily-traveled Missouri Boulevard in Jefferson City will be closing at the end of the month. Best Buy’s final day of business will be October 30, a Saturday. Company spokesman Kevin Flanagan says that the closure is part of their regular and ongoing review process …