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Kansas City police say two armed suspects are in custody after multiple people were struck by gunfire outside Union Station near the end of the Kansas City Chiefs’ parade and rally Wednesday afternoon. Police wrote on social media that shots were fired about 2 p.m. west of Union Station near …

A mid-Missouri state lawmaker who’s also an attorney praises Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Russell, who delivered her State of the Judiciary address last week. Chief Justice Russell says that while she may be the “face” of the judiciary in Missouri, the hard work is done in courthouses across …

Columbia’s Our Lady of Lourdes church is on Bernadette (file photo courtesy of Our Lady of Lourdes Facebook page) Today is Ash Wednesday, which is the first day of Lent for the thousands of Roman Catholics who live in mid-Missouri. Churches are holding numerous masses and services, and Catholics will …

It sounds like a good idea .. until you’re the guy who’s out of work. There’s a new push to cut the number of weeks you can spend on unemployment if you’re between jobs. The Missouri NF-IB’s Brad Jones it’s a piece of legislation that has been tried before … …

A Missouri death row inmate who is set to die for killing his cousin and her husband in New Bloomfield wants his execution stayed. Brian Dorsey is to be put to death April 9 for the 2006 murders of his cousin Sarah Bonnie and her husband Ben. Dorsey’s lawyer claims …

The Kansas City Chiefs will hold this afternoon’s victory rally at Union Station (February 13, 2024 photo courtesy of Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas’ Twitter page) Bright sunshine is expected for this morning’s Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade in downtown Kansas City. The parade will start at 11 at …

Missouri House Minority Leader Crystal Quade (D-Springfield) briefs Capitol reporters in Jefferson City on January 3, 2024 (file photo courtesy of Tim Bommel at House Communications) Missouri Democratic Party chair and former congressman Russ Carnahan and the Missouri House’s top two Democrats will speak at this evening’s Boone County Democrats’ …

Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe speaks at the October 18, 2022 ribbon-cutting ceremony for Columbia Regional Airport’s (COU) $23-million new terminal (file photo courtesy of the governor’s Flickr page) Columbia Regional Airport (COU) will soon have seven outbound flights each day, up from the current five daily outbound flights. COU manager Michael …

(KWTO) – Mid – Missouri dodged the bullet. But some areas of southwest Missouri received a half foot of snow from the winter storm Monday. 6.0 inches—Monett 4.0 inches—Joplin 3.0 inches—-southwest Springfield Moderate to heavy snow made roads slick across the Ozarks Monday morning as a band of snow impacted …

What version of initiative petition reform, if any, do you think is going to come out of the Missouri State Senate this session? Senator Mike Bernskoetter says there a bunch of different plans that would determine how many votes would be needed to change the State Constitution … Bernskoetter is …