A Columbia driver who killed a pedestrian in 2019 was scheduled to learn her prison sentence on Wednesday morning. Regine McCracken pleaded guilty in March to involuntary manslaughter and more for her role in the accident on Grindstone two years ago. H...

Councilman Matt Pitzer covers how the end of local health orders will impact Columbia businesses during Wake Up Columbia on Tuesday:

Police investigate an overnight armed robbery near downtown Columbia. A victim told police he was in his car at about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday on W. Broadway near Garth Ave. when a man with a gun came up to him and demanded money. The suspect took some cash a...

The Columbia City Council approves a new drop-off recycling site. It will be in a city parking lot near Cosmo Park off West Business Loop 70. Utilities director David Sorrell told the council during a public hearing Monday night at city hall that he co...

(AP) — Mexico City officials say an elevated section of the city’s metro collapsed and at least 23 people have been killed. Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said people could still be trapped inside the train, which plunged toward a busy boulevard late Mo...

Boone County’s health department holds a walk-in COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Tuesday at the Sturgeon Youth Center from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. You can also get the first dose of the Pfizer shot this week at clinics at Harrisburg Lion’s Club fro...

(AP) — Judges could issue lifelong restraining orders that also cover pets under a bill passed by the Missouri Legislature. Senators on Monday voted 31-0 to send the bill to Gov. Mike Parson. Currently, orders of protection are limited to at most one y...

A St. Louis man has serious injuries after a crash on I-70 in mid-Missouri. The Highway Patrol says Zaymon Harris’s car went off the interstate at a curve east of the Kingdom City exit at mile marker 163.8 late Monday morning. It went all the way acros...

(AP) — President Joe Biden has formally raised the nation’s cap on refugee admissions to 62,500 this year. The move Monday came weeks after Biden faced bipartisan blowback for his delay in replacing the record-low ceiling of 15,000 set by President Don...

(AP) — Bill and Melinda Gates say they’re divorcing. The Microsoft co-founder and his wife said Monday that they would continue to work together at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest private charitable foundation. In ide...