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Convicted killer Johnny Johnson is set to be executed by lethal injection on August 1, 2023 in Bonne Terre (2020 file photo courtesy of the Missouri Department of Corrections website) Missouri’s governor says a man who was convicted of the gruesome killing of a six-year-old girl in Valley Park 21 years ago will be executed Tuesday evening in Bonne Terre. …

An outside photo of Columbia’s Boone Hospital (2021 file photo courtesy of Boone Hospital) Boone County’s sixth-largest employer is cutting 62 positions, most of them unfilled. Our news partner KMIZ reports while most of the Boone Health positions being cut are unfilled, 15 are current positions. Those 15 employees will receive a severance, according to ABC-17. Boone Health’s chief executive …

52-year-old Leo Robinson has been sentenced to ten years in state prison (2021 mug shot courtesy of the Boone County Sheriff’s Department website) A Columbia man who was acquitted of murdering a man outside the Waffle House on Vandiver has been sentenced to the maximum of ten years in prison, because he’s a felon who had an illegal gun. 52-year-old …

Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz hosted the Countdown to Kickoff fundraiser Saturday at Columbia’s Midway Golf and Games (July 29, 2023 photo from 939 the Eagle’s Brian Hauswirth) About 200 people packed the banquet room at Columbia’s Midway Golf and Games for Saturday’s “Countdown to Kickoff” event with Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz. The event benefited Big Brothers and Big …

Longtime Stephens College president Dianne Lynch is getting ready to start her 15th year as president of the nation’s second-oldest women’s college. She joined host Fred Parry in-studio for the hour Saturday morning on 939 the Eagle’s “CEO Roundtable”. She tells listeners that there are currently 500 veterans on a waiting list to get a service animal. President Lynch says …