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A photo of the 1981 Macon high school football team is still in the popular George’s Pizza in east Columbia (September 28, 2022 photo from 939 the Eagle’s Brian Hauswirth) Highway signs will be unveiled Thursday evening in northern Missouri’s Macon to honor a decorated World War II veteran who’s …

22-year-old Loyal Martell of Holts Summit is charged with first degree murder (August 2022 file photo courtesy of the Boone County Sheriff’s Department) Family members of a Columbia man who was shot to death in August in a busy Columbia parking lot are expected to be in court Monday morning …

  The American Red Cross office in Columbia (2022 photo courtesy of American Red Cross development communications manager Angie Springs) Powerful Hurricane Ian has wiped out a section of causeway leading to Sanibel in Florida, according to a reporter on the ground for the “Tampa Bay Times.” The damage was …

Hurricane Ian left a path of destruction in southwest Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, damaging the roof of a hospital intensive care unit and knocking out power to 2 million people before aiming for the Atlantic Coast. Mid – Missouri Red Cross volunteers head south today. Missouri utility crews are already in …

A state law drafted by Cole County Representative Rudy Veit is allowing investigators the authority to look into allegations of sexual and other abuse at a church – run boarding school … A judge has allowed Agape Boarding School in Stockton to stay open while government inspectors examine operations at …

A Cole County man is arrested with methamphetamine. Deputies pulled Sean Hoehn over this week at the Highway 50 / 179 intersection. He was taken to the Cole County Jail. Three others were arrested in a bust that turned up meth and a stolen gun. Officers raided the Lake Side …

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has proposed a $140-million upgrade at mid-Missouri’s busiest interchange, the I-70 and Highway 63 connector. One possibility is a diverging diamond, but no final decisions have been made by MoDOT. Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe joined us live this morning on 939 the Eagle’s “Wake …

Missouri House Budget Committee chairman Cody Smith (R-Carthage), left, and State Rep. Rusty Black (R-Chillicothe) visit on the House floor in Jefferson City on May 6, 2022 (file photo courtesy of Tim Bommel at House Communications) The Missouri House Budget Committee has scheduled hearings on three state income tax bills …

Missouri House Budget Committee chairman Cody Smith (R-Carthage), left, and State Rep. Rusty Black (R-Chillicothe) visit on the House floor in Jefferson City on May 6, 2022 (file photo courtesy of Tim Bommel at House Communications) The Missouri House Budget Committee has scheduled hearings on three state income tax bills …

MoDOT credits 1.2 miles of truck climbing lanes on I-70 in mid-Missouri’s Montgomery County for increasing safety for motorists and for truckers (2022 file photo courtesy of MoDOT’s ColeDuenckel) Several hundred transportation and law enforcement officers from across Missouri will hear a detailed  presentation Wednesday afternoon in Columbia about the …