Mid-Missouri News

(Missourinet) Thousands of people packed a hangar and surrounding industrial parking lots at the Columbia Regional Airport (COU) in mid-Missouri Thursday evening, for President Donald Trump’s rally. …

(AP) – U.S. employers added a stellar 250,000 jobs last month and boosted average pay by the most in nearly a decade in an effort to attract …

Megan Sievers with Welcome Home visited with the Wake Up Columbia team to talk about the organization’s 3rd annual ‘Casino Night’ fundraiser. https://soundcloud.com/zrgcreative-1/megan-sievers-full-interview?in=zrgcreative-1/sets/939-the-eagle-kssz

(AP) – A Tennessee inmate grimaced and waved goodbye before saying “let’s rock,” moments before he became the first man executed in the electric chair in that …

Guilty on all counts. That was the verdict a jury handed down Thursday to Denico Crawley, the man suspected in a 2017 deadly shooting on the I-70 connector. …

The director of Jefferson City’s largest not-for-profit day care center says it’s an unfortunate fact: poverty can lead to child abuse. “Poverty is a very big indicator. …

The STEM bill is on the books in Missouri. The bill signed into law by Governor Parson allows for science and technology education to become part of …

(AP) — A Texas sheriff’s deputy has been shot and critically wounded and a suspect is in custody after an attempt to serve the man with an …

(AP) – Google employees who staged a global walkout Thursday are the most visible example of a surprising trend: highly paid engineers emerging from their comfortable bubbles …

Two more people are now in jail on second degree murder charges connected to an August death in Columbia. Mackenzie Cox (left), 28, and Elijah Fiore, 29, …

Former state representative, judge, and county clerk Chris Kelly announced this week he is running for mayor of Columbia in April 2019. Kelly joined Wake Up Columbia …

We’re getting word of a gunshot in downtown Columbia overnight. Officers found a shell casing on S. Ninth St. near Cherry St. at about 1 a.m. Thursday. …

Jefferson City Police have arrested a woman in connection to the death of four-year-old Darnell Gray. Quatavia Givens, 26, is in jail on a charge of first …

(AP) – The suspect in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre is expected to make a brief appearance in federal court Thursday to be arraigned on a 44-count indictment. …

(AP) – Tired Central American migrants rested in this southern Mexico town while their representatives tried to negotiate bus transportation hundreds of miles ahead, but then came …

(AP) – Navy divers interviewed on Indonesian television say they’ve recovered the crashed Lion Air jet’s flight recorder from the sea floor. TV stations on Thursday showed …

A former Mizzou student has pleaded guilty to a Columbia shooting. Miles Hillegas, 21, admitted this week to lesser charges of second degree assault and unlawful use …

If Missouri voters pass Proposition D on Nov. 6, it would eventually lead to a ten-cent per gallon increase in your gas taxes. The extra cash is …

The Macon Police Department says the officer who claimed he was knocked unconscious by a bad guy last week made the whole thing up. The cop said …

(AP) House Speaker Paul Ryan says President Donald Trump can’t end birthright citizenship on his own. The top Republican tells WVLK radio in Kentucky, “Well you obviously …