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What Versailles school officials thought was a case of meningitis was actually a form of encephalitis. A letter had gone out especially warning parents of middle school football players, those who chose not to get vaccinations and anyone who had strep of possible exposure to the diseases. A new letter …

One heck of a place to park. ABC – 17 says Holts Summit Police say they were called to a home in New Bloomfield Wednesday afternoon after a car crashed into the house on Redwood Drive. They arrested the SUV’s driver and now say he could be charged with DWI.

(MissouriNet) — Former Missouri Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jason Kander announced yesterday that he’s dropping out of the race for Kansas City mayor. Kander said he’s taking time to deal with depression and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Jack Cardetti, a Democratic operative who knows Kander, thinks the he’ll be an …

(AP) — A 37-year-old man was placed on two years of unsupervised probation for making a bomb threat at a Walmart in Jefferson City. Carl Rhoads, of Holts Summit, pleaded guilty to third-degree making terroristic threat, a misdemeanor, in September. Rhoads also was ordered never to enter the Walmart store …

A 15 – year old is in Cole County’s Juvenile Attention Center accused of stabbing a victim in the Westview Heights subdivision. Deputies were called to South Brooks Drive where they found the victim had already been taken to St. Marys Hospital. The teen suspect was picked up at a …

A man is in the Cole County jail after trying to steal a car and hitting a teen in the head with a gas pump nozzle. James Davenport allegedly told a clerk at the gas station in the 700 – block of Stadium Sunday he was an undercover JCPD officer …

Cole County’s Health Department is now based in its new headquarters. The operation moved into the remodeled former Community Health building on West Truman. The move adds over 10,000 square feet to size of the old facility on Industrial Drive. The county bought the building for $1.5 million. That’s before …

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A Columbia shots fired suspect is now in jail. Police say Andrew Barnette-Kruger got drunk and squeezed off a few rounds on East Business Loop 70 near Club Vogue at about 5:00 yesterday (sun) morning. No one was hurt. Barnette-Kruger is now in jail on several charges, including unlawful use …

Missouri Task Force One has returned home from its deployment to the Carolinas. More than fifty members of the Boone County-based emergency response group dealt with the fallout of Hurricane Florence for about two-and-a-half weeks. A spokesman for the task force says they were involved in hundreds of water rescues …