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Are you of those folks who plugs in the space heater so you don’t have to crank up the furnace on these first cold nights? Jefferson City Fire Division Chief Jason Turner has some warnings. he says make sure they’re kept away from curtains .. Turner adds to check older …

A Sedalia man is accused of trying to build a homemade bomb. 37 – year old Cody Lappat faces numerous weapons charges. Bomb – making materials were found at his home outside Sedalia. Highway Patrol Bomb Squad officers searched the home and found the components. The Pettis County Sheriff doesn’t …

Students and parents are being cautioned about a suspected case of meningitis that has shown up in one middle school. The letter went out this week about a case of the disease that’s been confirmed in the Morgan County R – two Middle School in Versailles. The letter targets members …

WASHINGTON (AP) – Christine Blasey Ford says she doesn’t have any political motivation for coming forward with accusations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were teenagers. Ford is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the accusations. When Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii asked …

The endangered person advisory is over for a couple Howard County kids. Authorities said early this (thur) morning that Cody Mordica is now in custody. They said yesterday (wed) that Mordica got in a violent argument with a woman at a rural home north of Harrisburg and took their two-year-old …

Fulton police have arrested the person they say shot a gun inside a McDonald’s. Brian Heathcock of Caruthersville is already in jail somewhere else on different charges. Investigators now say he’s the guy who hit someone in the head with a gun a couple times early Saturday, then fired a …

Jefferson City police are searching for the gunman after a shooting last night. The victim was taken to the hospital with non – life threatening gunshot wounds after the attack on Elizabeth Street around 10 – last night. No one else was hurt but at least one car was hit …

More info now on that deadly Highway 50 crash near California yesterday (tue) afternoon. The patrol says a car trying to pass a pickup hit the back of it. Both those vehicles would cross the center line and hit Steven Smart’s pickup going the other way. Smart has died. He …

Jefferson City Police are still searching for a suspect who was trying to steal gear from the site of the new Capital City High School. The officer confronted the man and chased him at the site Saturday. The man pointed a gun at the officer and managed to get away. …

A convicted Mid-Missouri killer dies in prison. The Department of Corrections confirms 44 – year old Sandra Plunkett died last week at the Chillicothe prison. She was convicted in 2014 in the shooting death of her retired Jefferson City police officer husband Paul Plunkett. She claimed she was a battered …