A violent tornado slams into Jefferson City and Eldon doing widespread damage. The worst hit area starting late (wed) night was along Ellis Blvd. The Hawthorne Apartments and Riley Chevrolet were badly damaged. Same at the new Special Olympics training center, and Simonsen Ninth Grade Center. The state track meet …

Will you ever see teachers packing guns in Jefferson City’s schools? It’s a continuing debate. Jefferson City School Superintendent Dr. Larry Linthacum says they prefer to have school resource police officers be the ones who are armed … Missouri law says districts can decide to allow teachers to be armed. …

(AP) – Authorities are searching for a Missouri fugitive who is accused of stealing a police car in Oklahoma when authorities attempted to recapture him. KHBS reports that Heavener, Oklahoma, Police Chief Ty Armstrong, says police found 30-year old Travis Lee Davis at a convenience store Wednesday after a woman …

Imagine truck – sized containers of transformers from the ABB plant or tons of Unilever products being shipped out of Jefferson City on barges. Heartland Port Authority Chairman Rick Mihalevich is heading up the plan to build a river port on 100 – acres near the National Guard’s Skelton Training …

(KMIZ) — The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team issued a Weather Alert Day for this weekend, as another winter storm set its sights on Mid-Missouri. Now is the time to make sure you have a winter weather preparedness plan in place, as icy conditions, drifting snow, and bitter cold will …

(NOAA) — Several rounds of showers and thunderstorms will bring heavy rain to the area today and tonight. The higher totals today will be in extreme southeast Kansas into western Missouri. A line of thunderstorms will move through later tonight and bring the risk of heavy rain to the entire …

(MissouriNet) — The Missouri Supreme court won’t determine the fate of a ballot measure proposing to change the way voting districts are drawn up. The high bench declined to hear the case Monday of Clean Missouri, or Amendment 1 as it will appear on the ballot. Opponents were successful in …

(MissouriNet) — Missouri’s governor has not scheduled bill-signing ceremonies yet for the treatment court expansion and STEM education bills approved by state lawmakers during the special session. Holts Summit State Representative Travis Fitzwater sponsored the STEM bill, which allows the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to create …