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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A second person has been charged with a felony after a Missouri jail inmate led law enforcement to a location where he said he helped bury a man’s body in 2015. Fifty-eight-year-old Sandy Gallaspie, of Jefferson City, was charged Sunday with abandonment of a corpse. …

CALIFORNIA, Mo. (AP) – A Jefferson City man has been charged with killing a man whose remains were found five years ago by a hunter in a rural area. 29-year-old Aaron Irwin was charged last week with first-degree murder in the July 2014 stabbing death of Cody Thirlwall. His remains …

We have an early estimate on how many Cole County buildings were damaged during the May tornado. Inspectors say 611 buildings in the county were damaged… over 500 of them being residential structures. Most of them were homes in Jefferson City. Authorities have not confirmed any deaths because of the …

Cole County authorities said over the weekend they’ve found a man who may be connected to some human remains found last month. Sandy Gallaspie has been arrested. Investigators have called him a person of interest, after finding human remains near Bess Hill Road in Jefferson City. No official word on …

A Fulton woman is accused of having nearly eight pounds of high-grade marijuana in her car. Police over the weekend said Danasia Pittman’s arrest was part of an extensive drug investigation. Investigators say they also found hundreds of devices in her car containing THC. Pittman is now out onbond

A burglary investigation leads to three arrests in Fulton. Investigators say Timothy Walker went in a home on Market Street early Saturday and attacked a woman. He was arrested on burglary and assault charges. While they were there, officers say they found something that was stolen. The two women living …

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is talking violent crime in Saint Louis this (mon) afternoon. He’s holding a press conference at the federal courthouse downtown near the Arch. Schmitt announced the presser before five people were killed on Chambers Road in Saint Louis over the weekend.  

A man suffers serious injuries after a boat crash just a few hours before the 4th of July at the Lake of the Ozarks.  According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, a boat went partially through the roof of a dock after hitting it and another boat that was unoccupied.  …

The U.S. Marshalls Service is offering a 10,000-dollar reward for information leading to the arrests of an Oklahoma couple who might be hiding out in the St. Louis area. 27-year-old Hakim Mustafa Moore and 29-year-old Robin Alexander are wanted for child abuse and neglect charges after one of their kids …

(MissouriNet) — Missouri U.S. Senator Josh Hawley agrees with President Trump throwing an extra expensive Independence Day bash in Washington D.C. The National Park Service has shifted 2.5 million dollars originally intended for park improvements to cover the president’s event. The celebration will include military fly-overs, a speech from Trump …