Covid-19 update.16 newBoone County  cases of coronavirus reported yesterday (sun), after a record 61 Saturday. 35 patients have been released from isolation since Friday. Three Boone County residents are in the hospital because of COVID-19, still low. Morgan County reported its first death. Cole County has 56 actives cases, but …

Here’s one less thing to worry about — if you received an IRS stimulus payment in 2020 under the CARES Act, it will not be taxable for federal or state income tax. The federal part was already made clear, but there was some room for interpretation under Missouri law. So …

(MissouriNet) — Several streets were blocked off in downtown Jefferson City for a Thursday protest and some participants have been arrested. The demonstration, made up of about 40 people, is in response to the Missouri Legislature’s special session to address the state’s growing violent crime rate. The governor wants lawmakers …

State officials confirm another record… more than two thousand new coronavirus positives in a day for the first time during the pandemic. Thirteen more COVID-19 deaths in Missouri too yesterday (thur). Boone County was a little above this week’s average again, with 28 new cases. Cole County confirmed 10 new …

The investigation into an officer-involved shooting in Sedalia is done. The Highway Patrol said yesterday (thur) that info is now with the prosecutor. A Pettis County deputy shot and killed 25-year-old Hannah Fizer during a traffic stop near Highway 50 in Sedalia last month. The deputy says Fizer claimed she …

Columbia police have now made the second arrest related to a downtown killing. Marlin Johnson turned himself in yesterday (thur). He’s accused of second degree murder in the death of Joseph Hecht. The 38-year old Sturgeon man was shot early Saturday near Eighth and Locust streets. He died the next …

KMIZ– A federal agency fined a Jefferson City-based Schrimpf Landscaping after a worker died at a construction site earlier this year. A report from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said the company received two serious fines, both worth $9,446. OSHA started investigating the company after Jacob Schrimpf, 31, was …

A Cole County woman is dead after she’s hit by a train. Troopers say Kelly Stevens was walking on the tracks close to Lookout Trail near her native Centertown yesterday (wed) morning when she got hit. Stevens was 46 years old.  

State officials confirmed more than 19-hundred new coronavirus positives yesterday (wed). That’s another record, and the eighth straight day with at least a thousand new cases. ABC 17 reports Missouri is now in the White House’s COVID-19 “red zone.” Seven more COVID-19 deaths. A seventh person has died from the …

Just when it looked like the Cole County Courthouse remodeling project was wrapping up, a lot of the work is going to have to be redone. Presiding Commissioner Sam Bushman says the county’s inspectors  found over 30 – areas of concern …     Bushman adds that the foundation will have to …