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Convicted killer Lynlee Renick speaks to “Dateline NBC” correspondent Andrea Canning at northeast Missouri’s Vandalia prison in January 2022 (file photo courtesy of “Dateline NBC”) A high-profile mid-Missouri murder case with ties to Columbia, Jefferson City and New Florence will receive national attention again on Thursday evening. Former Columbia spa …

Regional Economic Development Incorporated (REDI) executive vice president Bernie Andrews (undated photo courtesy of REDI website) Columbia’s unemployment rate continues to be one of the lowest in Missouri and the nation. Regional Economic Development Incorporated (REDI) executive vice president Bernie Andrews says December’s unemployment rate for Columbia/Boone County was 1.7 …

32-year-old Jessie Williams is currently incarcerated at the maximum-security prison in southeast Missouri’s Charleston, for the brutal 2018 attack of an elderly Columbia homeless man (October 2022 file photo courtesy of the Missouri Department of Corrections website) A man charged with throwing a Columbia woman to her death from the …

The historic columns on Mizzou’s campus in Columbia (2022 photo courtesy of the MU News Bureau’s Sara Diedrich) The UM Board of Curators is expected to vote this morning to name a new livestock handling facility in Columbia for the longest-serving faculty member in the UM System in recent memory. …

Mizzou fans cheer on the Tigers at Faurot Field in Columbia (file photo courtesy of Mizzou athletics spokesman Ryan Koslen) Mizzou’s athletic director says moving the MU football student section to one centralized area and moving visiting team fans away from the 50-yard line are some of the gameday enhancements …

(AP) — Missouri’s Republican-led House votes against banning minors from openly carrying firearms on public land without adult supervision. The proposal to ban children from carrying guns without adult supervision in public failed by a 104-39 vote. Only one Republican voted in support of it. Democratic Rep. Donna Baringer said …

A Jefferson City man will spend the next 15 – years in a federal prison cell. 25 – year old Malik Miller pleaded guilty to being a felon with a gun. He was arrested back in 2021 when he was a passenger in a parked car in a city park. …

State Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman (R-Arnold) says parents know better than school administrators which schools work best for their children. She has filed Senate Bill 81, which essentially authorizes parents to choose the school that their children attend … public, private or parochial. The Arnold Republican tells 939 the Eagle’s …

While Columbia has only spent $800,000 of the $25-million it’s received under the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), many other dollars are committed to key projects. City manager De’Carlon Seewood tells 939 the Eagle that about $10-million is committed. https://939theeagle.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Seewood-ARPA-1.mp3 “Right now we’re under contract negotiations for a behavioral …

Then-State Rep. Kip Kendrick (D-Columbia) speaks on the Missouri House floor in Jefferson City on January 15, 2019 (file photo courtesy of Tim Bommel at House Communications) Boone County’s presiding commissioner says broadband is a priority for everyone. Expanding broadband was one of the biggest topics of Tuesday’s discussion between …