An adult and four children escape an overnight Jefferson City house fire. Investigators say it looks like ashes from a grill on the back deck caused the fire a little after midnight Tuesday on Las Brisas Court. Crews saw heavy flames when they got to t...
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(AUDIO) Jordan Frericks on return from Germany during pandemic
Former Mizzou women’s basketball star Jordan Frericks was playing professionally in Germany as the coronavirus started to spread. She talked about her adventure getting home to Quincy during Wake Up Columbia on Tuesday: The post (AUDIO) Jordan Fr...
Read More »Local health official sees flattening curve in Boone County virus cases
Expect Columbia and Boone County to match Missouri’s stay-at-home order. The local one is set to expire on Apr. 24, but city council members on Monday night sounded like they will stretch it out to May 4. Local public health director Stephanie Browning...
Read More »Parson announces new spending restrictions
Governor Parson said on Monday he is restricting another $47 million in state spending. The state announced $180 million in restrictions last month. The new cuts hit nine agencies. About half of that funding will come from the budgets for K-12 educatio...
Read More »Trump says he’ll ‘suspend immigration,’ offers no details
(AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that he will sign an executive order “to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States” because of the coronavirus. “In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the ...
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