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‘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 …

(AP) — A Missouri man who shot and killed two jailers nearly 23 years ago during a failed bid to help an acquaintance escape from a rural jail was executed Tuesday evening. Michael Tisius, 42, received a lethal injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre and was …

A view of Tuesday’s six-vehicle chain reaction crash on I-70’s Rocheport Missouri River bridge (June 6, 2023 photo courtesy of the Boone County Fire Protection District) Missouri state troopers say a six-vehicle chain reaction crash on I-70’s Rocheport bridge Tuesday happened when traffic was slowing due to construction, which restricted …

The Boone County Fire Protection District responded to Tuesday’s five-vehicle crash on westbound I-70’s Rocheport bridge (June 6, 2023 photo courtesy of the Boone County Fire Protection District) Traffic is still slow for miles on both eastbound and westbound I-70 near the Rocheport bridge this evening. The Missouri State Highway …

Westbound I-70 at the 115 mile marker at the Rocheport bridge is completely closed at this hour, due to an accident that has led to cows on the loose. Missouri state troopers tell 939 the Eagle that multiple vehicles are involved and that cattle are on the loose. The crash …