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Missouri goes past the thousand mark in coronavirus cases in a day for the first time since the pandemic began. Another 1,138 positives were confirmed yesterday (tue), breaking the previous record by nearly 200. Another 11 Missourians have died from COVID-19. Cole County added three cases yesterday (tue). Boone County …

No mask mandate in Fulton. The city council decided last (tue) night just to strongly recommend wearing masks for now to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Fulton mayor Lowe Cannell says he’s been involved with local politics for a decade, and never seen such passion both ways over an …

New accusations in the Cole County Commission races. Harry Otto wants the seat of Western Commissioner Kris Scheperle. Otto claims Scheperle and Eastern Commissioner Jeff Hoelscher broke the law when they voted to buy the county’s new ambulances from a French Canadian company, not Osage Ambulance of Linn …       The …

Rick Mihalevich is working to defeat incumbent Eastern Cole Commissioner Jeff Hoelscher. Mihalevich says both Hoelscher and Commissioner Kris Scheperle overstepped their authority with recent ambulance purchases … He joined us on the KWOS Morning Show.  

Two of the three Cole County Commissioners stand by their recent decision to buy ambulances from the low bidder, a Canadian company. Eastern Commissioner candidate Rich Mihalevich thinks the county would have been better served by sticking with Osage Ambulances of Linn …       Mihalevich is running against Jeff Hoelscher. Hoelscher …

Lower coronavirus trends continue in Boone County. Officials confirmed 10 new cases yesterday (mon). That’s well below what we saw this time last week. Cole County added 15 new cases since the weekend. Moniteau County added 11 positives. A smaller increase yesterday (mon) at the state level, too. Another 530 …

Will Fulton become the latest spot making you wear masks? The city council holds a special meeting tonight (tue) to consider it. Residents and business owners in Fulton will have their chance to talk before the council starts discussion. Columbia is the only mid-Missouri city so far with a mask …

Boone County keeps seeing some improvement in coronavirus case numbers over the weekend. There were 28 active cases Saturday, and 22 Sunday. That’s well below what we saw the last weekend. The percentage of people testing positive in Boone County, and the rolling five-day case average, are both dropping the …

A Jefferson City man drowns in the Meremac River. The patrol says Alexander Terrell jumped in the water to help someone struggling in the river in Crawford County between Saint Louis and Rolla yesterday (sun) afternoon. The 24-year-old was pronounced dead at a Sullivan hospital.

Jefferson City firefighters were kept busy pulling people from cars who tried to drive through flooded streets after Sunday’s heavy rain. They say they worked nine separate incidents involving flooded vehicles along with fire alarms and reports of trees and power lines down. Some apartments flooded on and around East …