A man is arrested following a chase near Ashland. The man slid off of Edwards Road, hitting some trees before he ran on foot. A K9 unit tracked the unnamed suspect down before he was taken into custody around 1:30 this afternoon. The man ended up having a revoked license. …
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A Maries County mother faces charges surrounding the death of her 14-year-old, disabled daughter. Tracy Ellis has been booked into the Maries County Jail after her daughter died in a fire at their St. James home on Sunday. Reports claim the girl was locked onto her bed with a wooden …
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Police respond to shots fired in Columbia. A fight broke out between two people on Hanover Boulevard in northeast Columbia this morning. When police arrived, one person was sent to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. While police did find evidence of a shooting, no one had actually been shot.
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‘Thanks .. but no thanks’. You won’t be catching a ride on a Jeff Tran electric bus anytime soon … Mark Mehmert says the Jefferson City bus system tested a couple of the electric buses recently but decided to pass on them. He says the battery technology needs to advance …
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An MU police officer is fired after a picture of him in blackface surfaces. School spokesman Christian Basi says Marcus Collins was fired immediately yesterday (tue) after MU officials verified that the photo was of him. Collins confirmed it, saying the picture was taken before he was hired by MUPD …
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A Maries County woman is arrested after her daughter dies in a weekend fire. 43 – year old Tracy Ellis of St. James is jailed after her 14 – year old disabled daughter died in the fire at a home near Vichy Sunday night. The State Fire Marshal is looking …
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A Jefferson City priest is on administrative leave after allegations of what are called ‘boundary violations with minors’. Father Geoffery Brooke serves at Immaculate Conception Parish. The Missouri Children’s Division confirms they received a hotline call about the priest. The agency is heading up the investigation. The Diocese published a …
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The man who escaped from the Pettis County Jail and fled to Oklahoma has been caught. Authorities say they arrested Travis Davis in east Sedalia this (tue) morning. They said he may be back in town, after finding an abandoned truck on Sunday that had been stolen from Heavener (HEAVE-ner), …
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The trial dates were pushed back yesterday (mon) for two people connected to the death of a Fulton man with special needs. Sherry and Mary Paulo were both supposed to take their case to a jury starting Thursday. Mary Paulo’s case is now on hold until a hearing in May. …
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A kidnapping suspect who escaped from a Missouri jail and then from an Oklahoma police car apparently stole a pickup and drove back to Missouri. The truck was found in Pettis County yesterday. That’s where 30-year-old Travis Lee Davis broke out of jail just more than a week earlier. The …
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