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(NOAA) – Several rounds of thunderstorms will affect the area today through Wednesday. Today’s storms may produce 1 inch or larger diameter hail, and a few damaging wind gusts. A break in the thunderstorm activity is expected tonight and Tuesday, but more storms are expected to move into the region …

A 15-million dollar project to resurface heavily-traveled Highway 63 between Columbia and Jefferson City will start Monday. The state Department of Transportation (MoDOT) says Capital Paving and Construction will handle the project, which will upgrade guardrail and resurface Highway 63 between Paris Road in Boone County and Highway 54 in Callaway …

ABC – 17 — A Jefferson City man is charged with a sex crime against a child after a foster parent found an explicit photo in an online account. A Cole County prosecutor has charged Lucas Abbett with sexual misconduct involving a child under 15. According to court documents, a …

(AP) — The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Thursday, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first Black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a barely bipartisan endorsement for his promised effort to diversify the high court.

hy would the Kansas City Chiefs want to make the jump a new stadium on the Kansas side when they’re making out like ‘bandits’ in Missouri? …    Former Missouri State Economist Tom Kruckmeyer adds the Chiefs get a windfall in tax dollars from the state. He says the 2010 …

ABC – 17 — A Columbia man acquitted of plotting to kill his ex-wife called his prosecution “malicious” Thursday. A judge brought in to hear the murder conspiracy case found Mehrdad Fotoohighiam not guilty on all counts Thursday. Special Judge Steven Ohmer found Fotoohighiam not guilty of charges including conspiracy …

Jefferson City’s newest councilman has an idea of how to fix up the ‘tumble – down’ houses on Capitol Avenue. Jack Deeken says many of those homes owned by Barbara Buescher are still salvageable … Deeken defeated Jacob Robinett to win the seat in Jefferson City’s First Ward.

Abc – 17 — The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), Office of Childhood (OOC), has suspended the child care license of a Linn daycare because the staff administered unknown medications to children to calm them at naptime. DESE investigated a complaint on March 24 that staff at Busy …

Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe has officially announced his candidacy to be the next governor of Missouri Tuesday afternoon at a Firefighters Day event at the Capitol. Kehoe is the only announced candidate for the position. In Nov. 2020 Kehoe was elected as Missouri’s 48th Lieutenant Governor after being appointed to …

A tornado – warned storm does some damage in Cooper County. There are reports of trees and power lines down and a barn lost its roof. No tornadoes have been confirmed. No one was injured.