Kids are in the classroom in Jefferson City , but Columbia Public Schools officials spent the Labor Day weekend working through technical issues with iPads issued to most students. The district says a vendor for the devices made a change that causes problems when connecting to the internet. CPS decided …

KMIZ–Cole County has now seen more than a thousand COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic. According to the Cole County Health Department’s website, there are 142 active cases as of Wednesday. The county reached 1,007 total cases, 57 of which were reported in long-term care facilities. Officials say …

A man is facing murder charges after a woman is stabbed to death. 22 – year old Courtney Clardy was found stabbed to death at a home in Franklin in Howard County Monday. 44 – year old Emmett Wood Junior was arrested after a manhunt Tuesday.  

(MissouriNet) — Missouri state troopers say 13 people were killed in traffic crashes during the Labor Day holiday weekend. Two of the victims were pedestrians killed in separate weekend incidents: one on I-70 in Columbia and the other near the St. Louis suburb of Florissant. Troopers also made 145 arrests …

Another long prison sentence for a so-called caregiver to a Fulton man with special needs found dead. Anthony R. Flores was sentenced yesterday (wed) to more than 15 years in federal prison. His wife, Sherry Paulo, got a 17-and-a-half year prison sentence this week. They were among the people who …

Another record set in Boone County. Health officials confirmed 168 new coronavirus cases yesterday (wed), shattering the single-day high. Hospitalizations continue a small drop in the county this week, and stay well below capacity. Mizzou is investigating more than 300 possible violations of the school’s COVID-19 policy. Nearly 700 students …

The man who set fire to the Columbia Planned Parenthood building last year receives his prison sentence. A federal judge said yesterday (wed) Wesley Kaster will serve five years in prison. Kaster pleaded guilty to arson last November. He threw a Molotov cocktail into the Planned Parenthood clinic  in February …

(MissouriNet) — When Columbia Public Schools starts the 2020–21 school year next Tuesday, it will be all-virtual.  The Columbia School Board approved the change to all virtual with a vote of  6-1.  The board and district will continue to talk about COVID-19 and its impact at every meeting. The next …

It’s 17-and-a-half years in federal prison for the Fulton woman who was behind the abuse and death of a man with special needs. Sherry Paulo learned her sentence yesterday (Tues). It’s the max she could get. Paulo pleaded guilty in federal court last November to not giving Carl DeBrodie the …

(MissouriNet) — A change of venue has been granted to an Overland Park couple charged with sex crimes in boats at the Lake of the Ozarks. The charges against 41 year old Carl Mort and 39-year-old Cassandra Wedeking were filed in Morgan County. The case will now be heard in …