First degree murder charges have been filed against the suspect accused of killing two men early Saturday morning inside a popular downtown Jefferson City restaurant and bar. Cole County Prosecutor Locke Thompson has charged 35-year-old Damien Davis with first degree murder and three other felonies for the incident inside J. Pfenny’s …

Ap — A Missouri inmate convicted of ambushing and killing a St. Louis area police officer he blamed in the death of his younger brother was scheduled to be executed Tuesday, though his lawyers are seeking to have the lethal injection halted. Kevin Johnson’s legal team doesn’t deny that he killed Police …

A Cole County woman is at University Hospital after being accidentally shot. Cole County deputies were called to a home on Century Farms Road Sunday afternoon after a 23 year old man said he accidentally shot his 20 year old girlfriend. She was flown to Columbia in critical condition. Century …

Ashland State Representative Sara Walsh will have plenty to do after she leaves the Missouri House at the end of this month … Walsh will be working in an educational capacity with the anti – abortion group. Lawmakers are banned from lobbying the Capitol for two years after they leave …

Troopers have recovered the bodies of two men who drowned in the Lake of the Ozarks. The two men were graduate students at St. Louis U. They were both from India. The pair was swimming in the lake but did not resurface. One man’s body was found Saturday. The other …

Two men are dead and the shooter is in custody after a shooting at a downtown Jefferson City bar early Saturday. The two victims were 26-year-old Skylar Smock and 43-year-old Corey Thames of Jefferson City. Damien Davis of Kansas City is charged in the fatal shooting which started as a …

Gov. Mike Parson names Andrew Bailey as the next attorney general for the state of Missouri. Bailey, who was raised in Rhineland, is the general counsel to the governor’s office. Bailey will take over as attorney general in January when current attorney general Eric Schmitt officially becomes a US senator. …

A threat called in to Battle High School in Columbia turns out to be a prank. Law officers say the school got a call about an ‘active shooter’. Investigators are trying to track down the caller.

Governor Parson will announce his new attorney general today. The replacement will take over from Senator – elect Eric Schmitt. Andrew Bailey, the Governor’s General Counsel, is thought to have the inside track. The new AG will finish Schmitt’s four-year term which is set to end in 2024.

(AP) — American consumers and nearly every industry will be affected if freight trains grind to a halt next month. One of the biggest rail unions rejected its deal Monday, joining three others that have failed to approve contracts over concerns about demanding schedules and the lack of paid sick time. That raises the …