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Services are today for former KWOS announcer Jack Renner. Jack passed away last weekend at age 84. Visitation will be held at Immaculate Conception Church from 9:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. Friday, November 11, 2022. A Mass of Christian Burial will be conducted immediately following at 11:30 a.m., Friday with …

A Jefferson City man is now charged in connection with a Monday road rage incident. 23 year old Rodriguez Long Jr. is accused of shooting from a vehicle. Witnesses told police they accidentally cut Long off in traffic and he started firing shots. He told officers he was going to …

The Callaway County Sheriff now faces DWI charges. Clay Chism is accused of driving drunk and crashing this personal vehicle into a concrete barrier at the Arbys in Moberly last month. Officers say Chism smelled of alcohol and staggered when he got out of the vehicle. He allegedly told officers …

Missouri House Republicans will have another supermajority when the 2023 legislative session begins in early January in Jefferson City. Republicans will control the chamber 111-52. Republicans caucused this week at the Capitol, electing State Rep. Mike Henderson (R-Bonne Terre) as House Speaker Pro Tem and Rep. Jon Patterson (R-Lee’s Summit) …

The Southern Boone middle school expansion and renovation was funded by a voter-approved $7.7 million bond issue in April 2021 (November 2022 photo courtesy of Southern Boone School District spokesman Matt Sharp) Thursday evening is your opportunity to tour the newly expanded and renovated Southern Boone middle school in fast-growing …

Missouri Governor Mike Parson speaks to Columbia Chamber of Commerce members at the Crossing church on November 9, 2022 (photo courtesy of the governor’s Flickr page) Missouri’s governor will be leaving Jefferson City Thursday afternoon for an overseas trade mission to Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Greece. The trade mission …

Boone County Presiding Commissioner Dan Atwill speaks at the November 3, 2022 expansion announcement at Columbia EquipmentShare headquarters (photo courtesy of Governor Parson’s Flickr page) Boone County’s presiding commissioner is praising EquipmentShare’s decision to build its $100-million  new headquarters in Columbia. Presiding Commissioner Dan Atwill tells 939 the Eagle that …

Boone County prosecutors have charged 76-year-old Ivan Metzger of Columbia with statutory sodomy and with possession of child pornography(November 2022 mug shot courtesy of the Boone County Sheriff’s Department website) Boone County prosecutors have added a statutory sodomy charge against a Columbia man who was already jailed for possession of …

The search continues for a prowler in south Columbia who appears to be targeting the apartments of young women who live alone. Columbia Police warn that the prowler’s incidents have been at apartment complexes near Grindstone, and the suspect chased one victim to her door on Buttonwood on Sunday evening. …

(AP) — Testing by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found no radioactive contamination at a Missouri school that was shut down last month amid fears that nuclear material from a contaminated creek nearby had made its way into the school, Corps officials said Wednesday. Teams from the Corps’ St. Louis office …