A former nurse at the JCCC prison is awarded a $2 – million judgment in a sexual harassment case. Kathleen Newman worked for Corizon, the firm that provides inmate health services. Her lawyers contend Newman was repeatedly sexually harassed by co-workers and corrections officers.

An upstream ice jam has the Missouri River sitting at a record low level. The river at Jefferson City sits at a negative 2.7 feet. That breaks records going back over 100 years. It could cause problems for the intakes at the Jefferson City water plant and also at the …

Law enforcement and emergency crews pull a truck in the Missouri River near Coopers Landing in Boone County Wednesday afternoon. No one was inside. Investigators say the truck had been in a crash back in May and apparently had been in the river ever since.

A teenage girl from St. James dies in a crash with a freight train. Troopers say 18 – year old Cadey Rogers didn’t yield to the Burlington Northern train at a crossing in Phelps County.

Lawyers are asking for a continuance for a man accused of killing two men last month at a Jefferson City bar. Damien Davis of Kansas City is charged with murder in the shooting deaths of Skylar Smock and Corey Thames at J. Pfenny’s Sports Bar in Jefferson City last month. …

Five adults and two children are being helped by the Red Cross after a Jefferson City fire. The fire damaged several apartments in a complex on Hutton Lane Friday night. No one was injured. The cause is being called accidental.

No one is hurt at a Russellville senior living apartment complex after a weekend fire. Crews were called to the apartments on Jefferson Street early Saturday morning. Deputies were evacuating residents when firefighters arrived. Four apartments were destroyed and two pets died in the fire. The fire is still being …

You’ll see several Boone County fire stations lit in red today. That’s in honor of the one year anniversary of the death of Assistant Fire Chief Bryant Gladney. Chief Gladney died last December while working an accident on I – 70 in Columbia.

A Vichy man faces drug charges in Cole County. 31 – year old Jordan Sherman was arrested at a Dix Road home this week. Officers say they seized almost 150 – Fentanyl pills and a gun at the home.

A Holts Summit woman and her baby are hurt in an Osage County crash. Troopers say 28 – year old Taylor Schaffer ran off the road at the Highway 63 – 133 intersection Tuesday. Her car went airborne and hit a utility pole before overturning. Schaffer and the child were …