Charles Erickson has filed another appeal. He pleaded guilty in 2004 to helping Ryan Ferguson rob Columbia Daily Tribune sports editor Kent Heitholt before Heitholt was killed. Ferguson’s conviction and life sentence were vacated in 2013. Erickson is serving a 25-year sentence. His lawyer filed his latest appeal this week.

A Jefferson City man pleads guilty in a deadly double stabbing. The prosecutor said yesterday (tue) he agreed to not seek the death penalty in exchange for Brandon Rapier’s plea. Rapier killed Ciera Kolb and Micah Hall at a home on Grant Street in Jefferson City in 2016. Rapier is …

Governor Parson says he has no plans to shut down the state again, after Missouri sets another daily record for coronavirus cases. Health officials reported 434 new cases statewide yesterday (tue), breaking the single-day mark set twice over the weekend. Parson says Missouri hospitals are not overwhelmed, and we’re testing …

Boone County added 10 new coronavirus positives yesterday (tue). Two new cases in Callaway and Cole counties. Audrain County added one. Nothing new in a couple former hot spots for the virus, in Moniteau and Saline counties.

(KMIZ)– A surveillance camera in Sedalia captured the entire interaction between a Pettis County deputy and a woman that deputy killed. The details come in a search warrant affidavit written by the Missouri State Highway Patrol as part of its ongoing investigation into the death of 25-year-old Hannah Fizer. The …

(KMIZ)– Prosecutors charged a man with seven felonies and two misdemeanors after he allegedly broke into apartments on Jackson Street and started fires. According to court documents, Robert Keeton Jr. last Thursday started destroying the person’s property and struggled with him in the living room, police said. When the victim …

A third teenager is shot on Scott Boulevard. Columbia police say the latest shooting happened near West Rollins Road at about midnight Monday. The 16-year old victim has non-life threatening injuries. Two other teens, a 13-year old and a 16-year old, were also shot on that same block early Saturday. …

(Cole County Health) — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE–June 22, 2020Cole County Health Department Reports Death of COVID-19 Case It is with extreme sadness that the Cole County Health Department announces that we were notified at 12:40p.m. today of a death of a Cole County resident withCOVID-19and several other underlying health conditions. …

A drug dog sniffs out a big haul of meth. Callaway County deputies pulled over a car on Highway 54 Sunday and found over 5 pounds of the drug. Investigators say the methamphetamine has a street value of more than $300,000.

Missouri has set its daily record for confirmed coronavirus cases in consecutive days. The state health department confirmed 413 new positives yesterday (sun). That follows adding 389 new cases on  Saturday. Boone County added 16 new cases over the weekend. Cole County added three new positives, for a total of …