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17 — The National Weather Service, State Emergency Management Agency and local emergency managers encourage Missourians to learn more about severe weather and how to protect themselves during Missouri Severe Weather Preparedness Week. The sirens will sound at 10am today as part of the statewide tornado drill. KWOS will air …

Missouri’s governor says daily COVID cases have decreased to less than one-thousand per day, down 18-thousand from the Omicron variant peak in January. Governor Mike Parson says COVID hospitalizations have fallen from four-thousand to 13-hundred per day.

 (AP) — The price of regular gasoline broke $4 per gallon (3.8 liters) on average across the U.S. on Sunday for the first time since 2008. During the first full week of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the price of regular gas rose by almost 41 cents, according to the AAA motor club. …

17 — A judge sentenced a Jefferson City man this week to eight years in prison after he pleaded guilty to attempted armed robbery. Tarique Shelton pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree robbery after prosecutors reduced the charge from first-degree robbery. He was arrested in January 2020 after he was accused of being …

 (AP) — Missouri Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday called for more severe sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. Parson told reporters that sanctions should be “much more severe” and encouraged any action to “cutoff the Russian influence and hurt them financially.” Missouri’s public worker retirement plan had …

17 – An eight-year-old St. Louis boy is dead after a crash on westbound Highway 54 in Callaway County on Wednesday night. The crash happened near the Highway AA/OO exit, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Troopers said a van driven by Elizabeth C. Miller, 40, of Fulton, crashed into …

17 – Cole County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man for drug trafficking Wednesday evening after a traffic stop. According to a release, the Cole County Sheriff’s Office, assisted by the Mustang Drug Task Force, pulled over a suspect at the Wal Mart Supercenter on East McCarty. With the help of …

(AP) — More than 1 million people have fled Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, in the swiftest refugee exodus this century, the United Nations said Thursday, as Russian forces pressed their assaults on the country’s second-largest city and two strategic seaports.

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is nothing new. KWOS’ Jim Bohannon says the Russians have been at the same old game of intimidating their neighbors for decades … Bohannon adds that he’s not surprised by Putin’s claim that the worst disaster of the 20th century was the collapse of the Soviet …

(AP) — Missouri officials proposed to cancel public contracts with Russian entities and pull Russian products from stores Wednesday as they joined a growing contingent of U.S. states targeting the country over its war against Ukraine. Republican Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe said he was encouraging retailers to remove Russian products, such as …