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The Missouri State Highway Patrol says this boat exploded and sank near Point Oasis on June 8, 2023 (photo courtesy of Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Troop F Twitter page) Missouri state troopers say a Pennsylvania woman suffered serious injuries in Thursday afternoon’s boat explosion and fire at the Lake of …

  Schnucks’ soldier mascot attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Columbia’s new Clark lane store on March 23, 2022 (file photo courtesy of Paul Simon at Schnucks) Job seekers across mid-Missouri have an opportunity this afternoon to attend a career four at four area Schnucks stores. The St. Louis-based grocer is …

Construction of Ranken Technical College’s multi-million dollar Ashland campus is nearing completion (June 2, 2023 photo courtesy of Southern Boone County R-1 School District spokesman Matt Sharp) 44 percent of small businesses nationwide cannot find employees to go to work for them, according to the National Federation of Independent Business …

Motorists heading westbound on I-70 prepare to cross the aging Rocheport bridge on March 27, 2019 (file photo courtesy of the MoDOT Flickr page) Mid-Missouri commuters and truckers should be prepared for delays if they’re traveling near I-70’s Rocheport bridge next weekend. Rocheport is about 14 miles west of Columbia. …

‘Go for a run .. feed a veteran.’ There are fundraiser 5K’s in Columbia this weekend and in Jefferson City July 1st. The Food Bank of Central and Northeast Missouri’s Lindsay Lopez says the entrance fees will help cover the cost of VIP Veteran Packs … Lopez says one in …

(AP) — Transgender minors and some adults in Missouri will soon be limited from accessing puberty blockers, hormones and gender-affirming surgeries — as well as some school sports teams — under bills signed Wednesday by Governor Parson. Beginning Aug. 28, Missouri health care providers won’t be able to prescribe those gender-affirming treatments …

A Columbia man suffers serious injuries in a two-vehicle collision Tuesday afternoon in northern Missouri’s Putnam County, near the Iowa border. The Missouri State Highway Patrol’s crash report says 57-year-old Randolph Reed of Columbia crossed the center line of Highway 5 near Unionville, striking a second vehicle. Mr. Reed was …

https://939theeagle.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/DDay-Bells-1.mp3 That’s the sound of the U.S. Navy bell toll during Tuesday’s D-Day tribute at the Boone County Courthouse’s war memorial in downtown Columbia.  The U.S. Exercise Tiger Foundation organized the ceremony to observe the 79th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of the beaches of Normandy, France. The ceremony included …

Columbia Police Chief Geoff Jones has served as chief since 2019 (photo courtesy of CPD Facebook page) Columbia’s police chief says the cold case 2021 homicide involving a Mizzou CAFNR employee is still on the “front-burner”, and remains an active investigation. 939 the Eagle asked Chief Geoff Jones about the …

Convicted murderer Michael Tisius (2022 file photo courtesy of the Missouri Department of Corrections website) A convicted double killer from mid-Missouri has been executed by lethal injection, about 23 years after he killed two Randolph County jailers in Huntsville. Michael Tisius was executed at the state’s maximum-security prison in southeast …