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Moberly Area Community College will lease about 1,900 square feet in the old terminal at Columbia Regional Airport to establish an aviation training program. The city council approved the deal Monday. MACC will pay $15 per square foot annually and about $287,000 dollars for renovations. MACC says the new aviation training program will be a college-accredited FAA-certified flight school.

The veteran Boone County sheriff says there’s been gang activity in the Columbia area for the past 30 years. He says there have been a few homicides in Boone County “that were definitely gang activity.” Sheriff Carey made his comments this morning, when he joined host Fred Parry in-studio for the hour on 939 the Eagle’s “CEO Roundtable.” The 56-year-old …

32-year-old Montez Williams has been sentenced to 30 years in prison (2022 mug shot courtesy of the Boone County Sheriff’s Department website) A Columbia man who killed a woman last November in a domestic violence incident on Blue Ridge road has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. 32-year-old Montez Williams displayed no emotion in the courtroom as Boone County …

Faurot Field was sold out for the top-15 matchup between Mizzou and Tennessee on November 11, 2023 (file photo courtesy of Mizzou Athletics senior associate athletic director Ryan Koslen) Kansas City-based DLR Group has been chosen as the architect/engineering consultant for Mizzou’s Memorial Stadium north concourse improvement project in Columbia. The UM board of curators met this morning and voted …

State Rep. Travis Smith (R-Dora), right, speaks on the Missouri House floor in Jefferson City on January 4, 2023. State Rep. Jim Schulte (R-New Bloomfield) is at left (file photo courtesy of Tim Bommel at House Communications) A state lawmaker from mid-Missouri’s Callaway County says you can expect construction to begin this summer on I-70 between Columbia and Kingdom City …