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(AP) — Missouri voters would need approval from a majority of the state’s congressional districts or a 57% statewide vote to amend the state constitution under a proposal the Senate passed Thursday. Senators voted 24-10 along party lines in favor of the change, which would go before voters if passed …

This is a rendering of what the stage and screens will look like at the 2023 NFL draft that begins Thursday evening at Kansas City’s Union Station (April 2023 rendering courtesy of the National Football League) More than 100,000 people are expected to be in Kansas City today, for day …

The Central Missouri Foster Care and Adoption Association plans a stomp out abuse fundraiser in Boonville on April 27 (graphic courtesy of Gerry Tritz at the CMFCAA) Officials from the Central Missouri Foster Care and Adoption Association (CMFCAA) are encouraging you to come out for tonight’s “Stomp Out Abuse” fundraiser …

(AP) — A Missouri judge has blocked a first-of-its-kind rule restricting access to gender-affirming health care just hours before it was set to take effect. A judge on Wednesday ruled against the Republican attorney general’s emergency rule on transgender health care, putting it on hold until at least Monday. Lawyers …

A man from Centertown faces charges of raping a 15 – year old girl. 30 – year old Ian Roberts stands accused of picking up the girl in Rolla and bringing her to a Jefferson City motel for sex. The victim claims she met Roberts on Snapchat and asked him …

A Monday afternoon arraignment is now set for a Moberly man charged with murder for the April 6th head-on collision that killed a pregnant Moberly woman and her unborn child. 47-year-old Steven Lee Garrett, who was arrested Tuesday at Columbia’s Rusk Rehabilitation Center, will be arraigned on Monday before Randolph …

Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe addresses several hundred people at the October 18, 2022 ribbon-cutting for the $23-million new terminal at Columbia Regional Airport (file photo courtesy of Governor Parson’s Flickr page) A top Columbia business leader predicts United Airlines will return to Columbia Regional Airport (COU). The Chicago-based airline suspended …

The Columbia Chamber of Commerce ambassadors will cut the ribbon on Boone Electric’s $29-million new facility on Rangeline this afternoon (April 2023 photo courtesy of Boone Electric’s Josh Booth) You’re invited to this afternoon’s ribbon-cutting ceremony for Boone Electric Cooperative’s new $29-million headquarters at Columbia’s I-70 and Rangeline street. The …

A Columbia woman has been killed in a horrific two-vehicle collision on northbound Highway 63, at Highway 124. That’s just south of Heuer’s Country Café. The Missouri State Highway Patrol’s crash report says the crash happened Tuesday afternoon at about 4 when 79-year-old Joan Broxton tried to enter a median …

An envelope containing a foreign substance is sent to another Jefferson City state office building. This one showed up Tuesday afternoon at the Supreme Court Building. Emergency crews responded and took the envelope away. Another envelope showed up at the Broadway Building April 7th. The substance in that envelope was …