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Does the state of Missouri owe Lincoln University hundreds of  million of dollars the school was entitled to? A letter from the Biden administration says Lincoln and other historically black colleges lost some $12-billion they had coming. The U-S Department of Education claims the schools have been underfunded for decades. …

One Mid – Missouri Congressman is confident the evidence is there to begin impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden. Blaine Luetkemeyer is looking forward to the House holding their first impeachment inquiry hearing next week … The House Oversight Committee is likely to subpoena bank records of Hunter Biden and …

A young Columbia man now faces burglary and gun thefts charges. 19 year old Jamarie Johnson is accused of taking guns and other items from a Highway Patrol cruiser parked at an Ashland home. He’s also accused of breaking into the home and a Jefferson City police car. He’s shown …

  JCMG’s new express care clinic is located at 350 Country Meadows in Fulton, near Highway F (September 2023 photo courtesy of JCMG communications director Ilana Holland) Officials in mid-Missouri’s Callaway County are praising the Jefferson City Medical Group (JCMG) for opening an express care clinic in Fulton, which is …

Will you see the federal government come to a screeching halt? Congressman Mark Alford is watching the ‘brinksmanship’ over the proposed stopgap spending bill … September 30th is the deadline to maintain government funding. Alford says the infighting among Republican lawmakers over the ‘continuing resolution’ has created some bad blood …

A semi knocks down a utility pole, taking out power and dropping power lines on a Jefferson City fire truck. Firefighters were on St. Mary’s Blvd area doing fire-prevention inspections when a tractor-trailer hit a power pole and line. No firefighters were on the truck and no one was hurt.

A man from Holts Summit is again charged with car theft. 33 – year old Alex Stiefferman is accused of breaking into a State Technical College building and stealing a car last week. He was seen on video. In June Stiefferman was arrested for taking a truck from the lot …

Friends, family members and strangers wrote numerous messages on the windows at J Pfenny’s in downtown Jefferson City, following the November murders of Skylar Smock and Corey Thames (December 4, 2022 file photo from 939 the Eagle’s Brian Hauswirth) The Cole County prosecutor has filed written notice that he intends …

They’re two GOP Missouri lawmakers who just don’t get along. Governor candidate Senator Bill Eigel is critical of how Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Lincoln Hough didn’t allow a Senate vote in an attempt to override the Governor’s vetoes … Hough says while the House voted to override 10 – of …

The judge decides a Jefferson City man facing murder charges at a Lake of the Ozarks bar won’t have a mental exam. Chad Brewer is charged with first-degree murder in the killing at Lazy Gators on Memorial Day weekend in 2021. He initially asked to represent himself in court but …