The positivity rate drops, and other numbers look more positive too, in Missouri’s fight against COVID-19. The state’s positive coronavirus test rate is now below five percent. Mass vaccination events continue this week, including one starting today (mon) at Isle of Capri Casino in Boonville. About 14 percent of the …

A Jefferson City man who pleaded not guilty to a felony drug charge this week is now in more trouble. Police say Byron Williams drove away from a would-be traffic stop yesterday (thur) morning on West Main Street. He allegedly got out of the car near Dean Drive and ran, …

Cole County authorities say a father and son were behind a burglary at a gun store. Christopher McCombs Senior was arrested this week in Fulton. Investigators say he and his 17-year-old son broke into Bob’s Guns in Saint Martins early this month and took some things. No guns were stolen.

(MissouriNet) — Get ready teachers, childcare centers, grocery and convenience store workers, as well as others. During a Capitol press briefing, Governor Parson has announced the next tier of the state’s coronavirus vaccination plan will begin March 15. (as said) “While supply is still limited, we are expecting slow and …

The Boone County Commission offers tax breaks for a proposed Italian meats facility. Swift Prepared Foods says its large plant on Paris Road will eventually have 250 workers making an average of more than 50-grand a year. It’s set to open next year. This is the same company behind the …

Jefferson City Representative Dave Griffith sits next to Branson Rep. Brian Seitz in the House chamber. Seitz has filed a bill against the 1619 Project which claims American history really started over 100 years before the Declaration of Independence. Griffith agrees …      Griffith adds he’s also heard from his constituents …

(AP) — A former Cole County prosecutor and judge is now involved in Mark and Patricia McCloskey’s case. Richard Callahan was named yesterday (wed) the special prosecutor for the complaint against the Saint Louis couple who waved guns at racial injustice protesters last summer. They’ve pleaded not guilty to unlawful …

A former leader of the Fulton firefighters’ union is accused of stealing money from the organization. A special prosecutor filed a felony charge against Scott Peterson yesterday (wed). Authorities said they discovered the union had suffered a “significant financial loss” from an apparent case of embezzlement. Peterson was arrested last …

A Camdenton man is accused of badly burning his baby with scalding water during a bath. Samuel Webster was arrested this week on charges of felony child abuse and neglect. The baby is in a Springfield hospital with serious burns.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tiger Woods crashed his SUV on sweeping, downhill road in the Los Angels suburbs Tuesday morning, and doctors tried to stabilize “significant” injuries to his right leg with rods and a combination of screws and pins. Woods was driving to a television shoot when his SUV …