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17 — Social media company Twitter has suspended Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler’s personal account after a tweet that read “Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women,” and included her television ad. “Twitter believes the bigger threat is a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee saying women’s sports …

ABC – 17 —  Fulton Police said it took two men into custody on Sunday morning after a chase and discovering a stolen firearm. Police pulled a car over around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday along the area of Hospital Drive and State Road F because of a traffic violation. During …

17 – Gov. Mike Parson signed House Bill 3014, the supplemental budget, Thursday. The budget, which will allow the state government to operate for the remainder of the 2022 fiscal year, includes several billion dollars toward state worker pay raises and public school education. The budget allocates $4.6 billion, made up …

The Boone County Fire Protection District says MU Health Care personnel and a Boonville police officer helped firefighters to deliver a healthy baby on I-70 near Columbia, during Thursday’s snowstorm. It happened at about 9:20 yesterday morning, after a Boonville police officer transporting the 29-year-old patient and her husband requested …

Have you ever had to call the street crew folks and ask them why they plowed your just – shoveled driveway closed? Jefferson City Public Works Britt Smith says, if you’re facing the street, throw the snow to your right .. ‘downstream’ from your driveway …     Smith’s city crews …

If you live out in the country, it’s inevitable that the snow plow is going to get your mailbox. Cole County Road Superintendent Brian Boyce … Boyce also asks you to park in your driveway and don’t leave your trash can along the country road right of way. He adds …

The Jefferson City School District will be closed on Friday along with many other districts due to the winter weather and unsafe travel conditions. Some of Mid-Missouri’s smaller, more rural districts cancelled amid snow- and ice-covered roads, while the University of Missouri plans to return to full, in-person classes. Lincoln …

(AP) — The Department of Justice on Wednesday sued Missouri over a contested new law banning local police from enforcing federal gun laws just days after pulling out of a state crime-fighting partnership. (SAPA) The Justice Department has said the law, which declares “invalid” federal gun regulations that don’t have …

ABC – 17 — Public works crews in Cole County and Jefferson City are prepping for long days ahead as a winter storm will likely bring snow, sleet and freezing rain to Mid-Missouri starting early Thursday.  Cole County Public Works road crews’ shifts can be between 12 and 18 hours …

Schools are closed all across Mid – Missouri. Roads could be dangerous with the ice in the forecast. TODAY — Rain, freezing rain, and sleet before noon, then snow and sleet between noon and 1pm, then snow after 1pm. The snow and sleet could be heavy at times. ice accumulation …