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    A former Columbia youth leader pleads guilty to domestic assault. Lorenzo Lawson faced the charges after a woman claimed he punched her several times in the face. He’s the former executive director of the Youth Empowerment Zone. His sentencing will be on November 19th.

Missouri Task Force 1 spent a lot of time yesterday (thur) making sure buildings were safe in Panama City, Florida. Sixteen Boone County-based emergency responders are deployed in the area affected by Hurricane Michael this week. They mostly specialize in water rescues. They plan on getting a new assignment today …

LEBANON, Mo. (AP) — A man serving prison time in Kansas for murder has been convicted of killing a 15-year-old Missouri girl in 1984. Martin Dean Priest was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder in the death of Tammy Rothganger, who went missing in May 1984 while walking to school in …

(MissouriNet) — A leader in the window and door industry plans to build a 65-million dollar plant in the mid-Missouri town of Eldon. Freeburg-based Quaker Windows and Doors plans to purchase more than 100 acres in Eldon to construct a new 200-thousand square foot manufacturing facility. The state Department of …

Three injuries in a Cole County crash that jammed up morning traffic. Troopers say 26 – year old Haylee Rethman of Columbia failed to yield to another car at the Route ‘C’ / South Country Club Drive intersection shortly after 7 – this (Thur) morning. Both Rethman and the other …

You know any small break you can catch at tax time is better than nothing. Mid-Missouri Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer says that why they tweaked the recent tax cuts … Luetkemeyer adds that the ‘fix’ also now includes an increased deduction for married couples who file jointly.

Missouri Task Force 1 was checking equipment and preparing to make a lot of rescues, as Hurricane Michael made landfall yesterday (wed). Sixteen Boone County-based emergency responders staged in Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. Michael is causing life-threatening trouble in the Florida Panhandle, and possibly Georgia and the …

Law officers thought they had another case of a mailed –in dangerous substance at a state office today (wed). Firefighters, law officers and first responders were called to the Missouri Supreme Court building for a possible suspicious substance. Jefferson City Fire Division Chief Jason Turner says their investigation revealed that …

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Supercharged by abnormally warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday with potentially catastrophic winds of 155 mph, the most powerful hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland in nearly 50 years. Michael blew ashore near Mexico Beach, a …

Is another Jefferson City building in danger of collapsing? The building at the corner of High and Madison was evacuated back in June after it partially collapsed. And now two buildings next door could risk the same fate because of shared walls. All three buildings date to the late 19th …