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Caddies Indoor Golf is set to open in November, and will be located in the 1700 block of Columbia’s West Broadway (logo is courtesy of Caddies Indoor Golf owner Mark Giboney) A November 1 grand opening is planned for Caddies Indoor Golf in Columbia. Owners Mark and Jodie Giboney tell …

Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe (left) visits with Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission chair Robert Brinkmann in Columbia on September 27, 2022 (photo courtesy of Mr. Kehoe’s Flickr page) While Missouri’s lieutenant governor praises Governor Parson and the GOP-controlled Legislature for being friendly to public safety, he wants to see some …

Boone County prosecutors have charged 31-year-old Jessie Williams with first degree murder (October 5, 2022 mug shot courtesy of the Boone County Sheriff’s Department website) Graphic court documents obtained by 939 the Eagle say a Columbia woman who was thrown to her death from the northbound Highway 63 overpass near …

Governor Mike Parson teamed up with the state’s Education Commissioner to visit the Cole R – 5 schools in Eugene. He talked to staff about $22 – million in funding that will help entry level teachers be paid more. The minimum salary for Missouri teachers will go from $25000 to …

Army investigators are looking into a shooting at Fort Leonard Wood. The victim was flown to Mercy Hospital in Springfield after the Tuesday incident. The accused shooter is in custody. There’s no word if the victim and the gunman are soldiers. CID agents are handling the investigation.

UPDATE: Columbia Police have identified the woman who was thrown to her death last (Tuesday) night from a Highway 63 bridge near Clark lane as 24-year-old Kaylen Ann Schmit. She was pronounced dead at University Hospital. HERE IS BRIAN’S ORIGINAL STORY: Columbia Police are seeking first degree murder charges against …

A rendering of the planned Top Tracer Range golf facility at Midway Golf and Games (2021 file rendering courtesy of Midway Golf and Games) TopTracer Range will be building its second Missouri location just west of Columbia, at Midway Golf and Games. A groundbreaking event for the multi-million dollar facility …

This is hurricane-damaged Fort Myers Beach, Florida (October 4, 2022 photo courtesy of Columbia-based Missouri Task Force One) The sheriff in Fort Myers, Florida says his deputies are tiring from Hurricane Ian, with no end in sight. Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno tells the “Fort Myers News-Press” that his crews …

Columbia Police are seeking first degree murder charges against a Columbia parolee accused of throwing a woman to her death from a bridge over Highway 63, near Clark lane. CPD spokesman Christian Tabak says the victim was thrown from the 63 bridge at about 6:45 Tuesday evening, across Clark lane …

Governor Mike Parson (right) and the Missouri Pork Association’s Don Nikodim (center) visit with a Columbia resident at Columbia’s agriculture park on August 25, 2022 (file photo courtesy of the governor’s Flickr page) Missouri commodity group leaders are joining Governor Mike Parson (R) in Jefferson City this morning, as he …