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Senate Majority Leader Caleb Rowden (R-Columbia) speaks on the Missouri Senate floor in Jefferson City on May 12, 2022 (file photo courtesy of Harrison Sweazea at Senate Communications) Missouri’s top Senate Republican says communication will be key for his party, during the 2023 legislative session. Senate Majority Leader Caleb Rowden …

A teenage girl from St. James dies in a crash with a freight train. Troopers say 18 – year old Cadey Rogers didn’t yield to the Burlington Northern train at a crossing in Phelps County.

Lawyers are asking for a continuance for a man accused of killing two men last month at a Jefferson City bar. Damien Davis of Kansas City is charged with murder in the shooting deaths of Skylar Smock and Corey Thames at J. Pfenny’s Sports Bar in Jefferson City last month. …

U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-St. Elizabeth) has been working with the Missouri Propane Gas Association and with Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office regarding the sudden closing of Gygr-Gas. Congressman Luetkemeyer tells 939 the Eagle’s “Wake Up Mid-Missouri” that the closing left some of his mid-Missouri constituents without propane, during …

The new Tacos4Life is located on Columbia’s East Green Meadows (December 20, 2022 photo from 939 the Eagle’s Jeff Ausmus) The dining room and the drive-through at Columbia’s new Tacos4Life restaurant on East Green Meadows have been busy. Their three-day soft opening was earlier this month. Reporter Zola Crowder from …

The former Noble and St. Mary’s Hospital in mid-Missouri’s Mexico (2022 photo courtesy of “Mexico Ledger” managing editor Matt Pilger) A state lawmaker from mid-Missouri’s Mexico says Platinum Health has not made required major repairs to the now-closed Mexico and Fulton hospitals. State Rep. Kent Haden (R-Mexico) tells the “Mexico …

Five adults and two children are being helped by the Red Cross after a Jefferson City fire. The fire damaged several apartments in a complex on Hutton Lane Friday night. No one was injured. The cause is being called accidental.

No one is hurt at a Russellville senior living apartment complex after a weekend fire. Crews were called to the apartments on Jefferson Street early Saturday morning. Deputies were evacuating residents when firefighters arrived. Four apartments were destroyed and two pets died in the fire. The fire is still being …

Missouri’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against a Boonville-based propane gas supplier, alleging their abrupt closing has left more than 2,500 rural Missouri customers without a dependable source of propane this winter. Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office filed the lawsuit Thursday in Cooper County against Gygr-Gas. The attorney general tells …

Officials in mid-Missouri’s Mexico are asking anyone with information about Friday’s deadly blaze at an apartment building to call CrimeStoppers. Mexico Public Safety Department (MPSD) officials say the blaze broke out at about 1:15 am on Friday in the 1200 block of West Breckenridge. The blaze killed 60-year-old Ruth Ann …