(AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said Monday that the state will proceed with this week’s planned execution of a man who abducted and killed a 6-year-old girl nearly two decades ago, though the man’s attorneys are still pressing claims he is mentally incompetent. Johnny Johnson, 45, is scheduled to receive a …

A bomb threat turns out to be a false alarm at a Sedalia hospital. Police say the threat at Bothwell Health Center came in Sunday. Bomb sniffing dogs from the Pettis County Sheriff’s Department and Whiteman Air Force Base were brought in. The dogs didn’t find anything. The hospital reopened …

(A-P) – The planned execution of a 45-year-old Missouri man with schizophrenia is back on after an appellate court reversed course Saturday. Johnny Johnson is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre for killing 6-year-old Casey Williamson after trying to sexually assault her in …

Callaway County Sheriff Clay Chism has a court appearance today. He faces DWI charges after being arrested after running his truck into a concrete barrier at a Randolph County fast food restaurant last year. Officers claim Chism was passed out and smelled of alcohol. He’s also accused of resisting arrest.

Do you buy the story from the whistleblowers who told Congress that UFOs are real and could prove that extraterrestrials are really out there? Missouri Congressman Mark Alford lives about an hour up the road from Whiteman Air Force Base, the home of the B-2 bomber … Alford, who serves …

A Callaway County man is accused of stealing money from nursing home residents. 60 – year old Garrison Roddy is charged with stealing thousands of dollars. Our news partner ABC – 17 says the charges say Roddy accessed a patient’s checking account and took over $14,000.

JCFD firefighters put out a roof fire Thursday morning. Crews were called to building in the 1400 – block of Southridge around 8am. They found smoke coming from the roof of the business. The fire was put out quickly. Investigators say it started as an electrical fire.

You can bet the Callaway Nuclear Plant is working overtime in this summer weather. Callaway County Senator Travis Fitzwater has long pushed to expand the plant near Reform … Fitzwater says the Callaway Plant generates about one – quarter of electricity needed by Ameren customers. He adds, that even with …

An Iberia woman faces charges of statutory rape and statutory sodomy. 23 – year old Amanda Wall is being held on a $100,000 bond. The charges say two teenage boys, 14 and 15, were sexually assaulted by Wall earlier this summer.

Environmental crews from Springfield are wrapping up a clean up on a Cole County creek on Lincoln U’s Busby farm that was contaminated with diesel fuel earlier this week. The crew will now remove contaminated soil. About 800 gallons of diesel leaked from a line at the Cole County Public …