Missouri Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer still questions the timing of the FBI’s raid on Donald Trump’s Florida home. Luetkemeyer wonders why the feds did their search just months before the mid – term elections … The Justice Department believes there were classified documents among the thousands of files seized from Trump.

Two drivers are hurt in a crash that jammed traffic on the Missouri River Bridge in Jefferson City yesterday morning. A driver caused the chain reaction accident after he ran into stopped vehicles on the bridge. The crash brought traffic to a standstill for a half hour.

(AP) — A revived Hurricane Ian set its sights on South Carolina’s coast Friday and the historic city of Charleston, with forecasters predicting a storm surge and floods after the megastorm caused deaths, catastrophic damage in Florida and left people trapped in their homes.

Hurricane Ian left a path of destruction in southwest Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, damaging the roof of a hospital intensive care unit and knocking out power to 2 million people before aiming for the Atlantic Coast. Mid – Missouri Red Cross volunteers head south today. Missouri utility crews are already in …

A state law drafted by Cole County Representative Rudy Veit is allowing investigators the authority to look into allegations of sexual and other abuse at a church – run boarding school … A judge has allowed Agape Boarding School in Stockton to stay open while government inspectors examine operations at …

A Cole County man is arrested with methamphetamine. Deputies pulled Sean Hoehn over this week at the Highway 50 / 179 intersection. He was taken to the Cole County Jail. Three others were arrested in a bust that turned up meth and a stolen gun. Officers raided the Lake Side …

Hurricane Ian has forced the Tampa Bay Bucs  to Miami to prepare for their matchup with the Chiefs. But the league could move the game to US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. The Vikings play the Saints in London so the site is open.

A man working on the Rocheport Missouri River Bridge project fell into the river. Investigators says he had a safety equipment malfunction. The crewman had only minor injuries and was able to swim to shore.

Best case scenario? How about several blocks of restored historic homes serving different uses?.. Jefferson City Mayor Carrie Tergin would like to see all the old homes east of the Capitol renovated. But she knows that as many as 14 – are too far gone to be restored. Tergin says …

(AP) — Forecasters say Hurricane Ian has become an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm as it approaches Florida’s west coast. The. U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said that Ian now has top sustained winds of 140 mph (220 kph) and is centered about 75 miles (125 kilometers) west-southwest of …