Mid-Missouri News

The National Weather Service says more areas could be underwater before the summer ends. Forecasters predict a good chance for continued flooding in mid-Missouri. More rain is …

One lane of eastbound I-70 will be closed on the Rocheport bridge from Saturday at 7 p.m. until about Wednesday for emergency repairs. MoDot said Sunday that …

(AP) Russia’s transportation minister says 41 bodies have been recovered from the burned wreckage of an Aeroflot plane at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. Minister Yevgeny Dietrich also told …

(AP) – Authorities say at least 16 people were shot over the weekend in 10 separate incidents in St. Louis, two of them fatally. The St. Louis …

(AP) – President Donald Trump ex-lawyer and fixer is due to start a three-year prison sentence Monday for crimes including campaign finance violations related to hush-money payments …

(AP) — Maximum Security led the Kentucky Derby every step of the way except for the last one — into the winner’s circle. The colt became the …

U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler was in Columbia on Friday for the dedication of the downtown post office in honor of fallen Army specialist Sterling Wyatt. She talked …

Former Columbia Police Chief Ken Burton was arrested Thursday night on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. It happened just after 8 p.m. Thursday when an officer stopped …

(AP) – In less than a week, Steve Stenger went from the top elected official in Missouri’s largest county to a convicted felon. Stenger pleaded guilty Friday …

(AP) Hiring jumped in April as U.S. employers added 263,000 jobs, a strong gain that suggests businesses have shrugged off any concerns the economy may slow this …

A handful of roads in Boone County and elsewhere were still closed because of flooding. You can see the county’s road closure list here, and the MoDot …

Columbia’s downtown post office gets a new name on Friday. It will now honor Sterling Wyatt, an Army specialist from Columbia who was killed in Afghanistan in …

(AP) — Attorney General William Barr skipped a House hearing Thursday on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia report, escalating an already acrimonious battle between Democrats and President …

A Columbia firm celebrated the opening of a big new facility on Thursday. ThermAvant says it is quadrupling its engineering and manufacturing space with the new 33,000 …

(AP) — Stephen Moore, a conservative commentator whom President Donald Trump had tapped for the Federal Reserve board, withdrew from consideration Thursday after losing Republican support in …

(AP) – General Motors officials have met with Gov. Mike Parson and others about a possible $1 billion expansion of its truck and van plant in Wentzville. …

(AP) – Facebook has banned Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones and others from its main service and from Instagram, saying they violated the company’s ban against hate and …

(AP) – The city of San Francisco is suing the Trump administration over its new regulation allowing health care professionals to opt out of providing treatments they …

One lane of eastbound I-70 is closing for several days at the Missouri River bridge near Rocheport. MoDot says the closure will start Saturday at 7 p.m., …

A former candidate for the state’s 4th Congressional District is under arrest on child porn charges. 30-year-old Nate Irvin of Columbia lost to Vicky Hartzler in the …