This is the sign outside the popular ALDI grocery store on Columbia’s East Green Meadows (October 11, 2022 photo from 939 the Eagle’s Brian Hauswirth) One of America’s fastest-growing retailers is building its third Columbia grocery store near the Wal-Mart on Conley, close to Highway 63. Officials at the city …
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An Air Force bomb squad had to be called in after a live hand grenade is found in a Saline County farm shed. The grenade was discovered in Blackburn. It was still functional. The team from Whiteman Air Force Base detonated the grenade in a farm field.
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Many Jefferson City school parents were up in arms back last year when then Superintendent Larry Linthacum said a theoretical classroom discussion on current events could have included students talking about Critical Race Theory as a way to generate dialogue. Superintendent Bryan McGraw joined us on Wake Up Mid – …
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Missouri Cattlemen’s Association executive vice president Mike Deering (left) and other cattlemen join Governor Mike Parson for the October 4, 2022 farm tax credit extension bill-signing ceremony in Jefferson City (photo courtesy of the governor’s Flickr page) Missouri’s commodity groups are praising the passage of a six-year extension for agricultural …
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Big Lots aims to open its new Jefferson City store on Missouri Boulevard on October 27, 2022 (October 2022 photo from 939 the Eagle’s Brian Hauswirth) A major retailer that will replace the former Best Buy store on Jefferson City’s Missouri Boulevard aims to open in late October. Store management …
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Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (file photo courtesy of the Secretary of State’s office) Tomorrow (Wednesday) is the deadline for you to register to vote in Missouri’s November general election. Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s (R) office notes that if you mail your voter registration application in, it must …
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The lawyer for the Callaway County Sheriff says his client was not drinking and driving. Sheriff Clay Chism was arrested in Moberly last Thursday when he crashed his car into a concrete barrier at a fast food place. Our news partner ABC – 17 say the attorney claims Chism was …
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Federal funds would buy two new hybrid buses for Jefferson City’s transit system. But is that $1.5 – million grant enough? Third Ward Councilman Scott Spencer says Jeff Tran, like most city bus systems, operates at a loss … Meanwhile Mo-Dot is trying to find out if there would be …
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Missouri Department of Agriculture (MDA) director Chris Chinn (left) and Missouri Pork Association executive vice president Don Nikodim at MDA headquarters in Jefferson City on October 6, 2022 (photo from 939 the Eagle’s Brian Hauswirth) Missouri’s governor has signed a proclamation recognizing October as pork month. State department of Agriculture …
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A Boone County jury has convicted 31-year-old Joshua Aaron Lewis on three counts of statutory sodomy, two counts of child molestation and one count of child abuse (undated mug shot courtesy of the Boone County Sheriff’s Department website) A Boone County jury is recommending a life prison sentence for a …
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