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Missouri Chamber of Commerce officials asked legislators early on in the pandemic to put protections in place for businesses that end up facing COVID – related lawsuits …     Cole County Representative Rudy Veit is an attorney. He agrees that those protections should be written into law. The Missouri Chamber has …

Columbia and Boone County health officials plan to extend their current health order until the 20th. The order forces bars and restaurants to close at 10:30 p.m. Local health director Stephanie Browning says continuing the restrictions will help Boone County keep the daily coronavirus case count low. The Columbia City …

KMIZ– California Police arrested and charged Troy O’Banion after he allegedly assaulted a man with an ax. According to court documents, O’Banion ex-wife called police after O’Banion hit her friend with an ax in the leg. Our news partner, ABC-17, reports O’Banion then left the scene and came back to …

Not much change in active coronavirus cases locally. 25 new positives in Cole County. Boone County reported 43 new cases yesterday (wed). Hospitalizations rose to a record-high, but stay below capacity. Active cases rose a dozen on the Mizzou campus, to 81.

A local county loses more than a thousand absentee ballots in the mail. The Pettis County Clerk said yesterday (tue) he started hearing last week that many voters were not getting the absentee ballots his office gave to the Post Office to deliver. It’s not clear what happened to them. …

CLEVELAND (AP) — The first debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden deteriorated into bitter taunts and near chaos Tuesday night as Trump repeatedly interrupted his opponent with angry — and personal — jabs that sometimes overshadowed the sharply different visions each man has for a nation …

One of Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s former  students sits on the bench in Jefferson City. Municipal Judge Brian Stumpe  was a young law student with a pregnant wife when he studied with Barrett at Notre Dame …       Stumpe adds that Barrett mentored a student who went on …

(KMIZ) — A probable cause statement out of Cole County alleges three people of an armed robbery on Monday in Jefferson City. According to court documents, three people robbed the victim on the 100 block of E. Franklin. In the documents, Michael Scaife, Amanda Sims and Daimian Smith were riding …

A Jefferson City man is looking at felony charges after a shooting just north of Columbia. A judge yesterday (tue) ordered Cenneth Tucker to stay in jail with no bond. Deputies say they found evidence connecting him to a shooting near Mauller Road and Moberly Drive on Monday afternoon. The …

Just ahead of the Trump – Biden debate, Lt. Governor Mike Kehoe admits it’s already been one mean-spirited election season …       While Kehoe and his opponents’ race for Lt. Governor has been very low key, the Missouri Governor’s race has already seen some nasty ads. Kehoe was appointed to the …