The University of Missouri College of Education celebrates a $1 million gift. It comes from MU alumnus Gary Coles and Patricia Coles. The school said on Thursday the cash will help establish scholarships for MU students planning to become elementary sc...

Construction of the second tower of The Broadway hotel in downtown Columbia is finally set to start later this year, according to the owner. The city council in 2017 approved $2 million in tax breaks for the project on Walnut. The new tower will includ...

(AP) — Authorities say a sixth-grade girl brought a gun to her Idaho middle school, shot two students and a custodian and then was disarmed by a teacher. Officials said at a news conference Thursday that the three victims are expected to survive their ...

Graduation ceremonies start Friday for the 2021 class at Mizzou. The university will hold a series of socially-distanced ceremonies May 7-9 at Mizzou Arena. More of those in-person ceremonies will happen May 14-16. See the schedule and the COVID-19 saf...

(AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to 498,000, the lowest point since the viral pandemic struck 14 months ago and a sign of the job market’s growing strength as businesses reopen and consumers step up spending. Appli...

A Columbia driver who killed a pedestrian in 2019 got a ten-year prison sentence on Wednesday. Regine McCracken pleaded guilty in March to involuntary manslaughter and more for her role in the accident on Grindstone two years ago. Her car crashed into ...

There’s a walk-in COVID-19 vaccine clinic at Hallsville Community Center on Thursday, from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services is also hosting a vaccine clinic at Derby Ridge Elementary in north Columbia on Sat...

(AP) — A review of the investigation that brought down former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens three years ago uncovered evidence that the prosecutor in charge concealed evidence that could have helped Greitens, the head of the office that oversees lawyers’...

When will you see groundbreaking on a proposed river port for Jefferson City? Developers are still waiting on the state to deed over about 100 acres of land along the Missouri River near the National Guard’s Skelton Training Site. The state has given t...

(AP) — Activists cheered, Big Pharma complained and government leaders assessed next steps on Thursday after the Biden administration’s blockbuster move to support an easing of patent and other protections on COVID-19 vaccines that many hope will help ...