Posted 8:22 PM 5/20/2013 by Kellie Stanfield

COLUMBIA - May is Celiac Awareness Month, and some mid-Missourians learned Monday how to eat gluten-free. Celiac disease is an auto-immune disease that is triggered by eating gluten--a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye. Some people have the disease but are unaware. Celiac disease has more (More)

Posted 7:47 PM 5/20/2013 by Maddy Glab

ELDON - Gas prices in Eldon remain higher Monday than gas prices in Jefferson City and Columbia.

Gas prices in Eldon ranged from $3.89 to $3.95, but prices Sunday were close to $4.00. In Jefferson City, gas prices were around $3.79.

Economics professors at the University of Missouri (More)

Posted 6:34 PM 5/20/2013 by Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) -- Monday's powerful tornado in suburban Oklahoma City loosely followed the path of a killer twister that slammed the region in May 1999.

The National Weather Service estimated that the storm that struck Moore, Okla., on Monday had wind speeds of up to 200 mph, and was at (More)

Posted 6:06 PM 5/20/2013 by KOMU 8 Staff

BOONE COUNTY - Boone County Fire Protection District/Missouri Task Force 1 has not been asked to help with Oklahoma tornado damage, said Public Information Officer Gale Blomenkamp Monday afternoon.

Blomenkamp said thinks it is highly unlikely that it will be asked to send a team. However (More)

Posted 4:18 PM 5/20/2013 by Meredith Albair

COLUMBIA - Hundreds of motorcyclists stopped at the Mid-America Harley Davidson in Columbia Monday.

The estimated 600 bikers are riding in the 25th annual "Run for the Wall" event.

The motorcyclists started in Los Angeles, Calif., and are (More)

Posted 4:12 PM 5/20/2013

MOORE, Okla. (AP) -Television footage shows flattened buildings and fires after a mile-wide tornado moved through the Oklahoma City area.

Video showed homes and buildings in Moore, Okla., were reduced to rubble, and vehicles littered roadways south and southwest of Oklahoma City.

Posted 3:15 PM 5/20/2013 by Nichole Cartmell

COLUMBIA - Columbia Public Schools will let out for the summer this week. By next year, there will be three new middle schools added to the district. In the fall, the district will transition to only having middle schools.

Jefferson Junior High, Oakland Junior High and West Junior High (More)

Posted 2:53 PM 5/20/2013 by Jamie Ries

COLUMBIA - Boone County Museum and Galleries reported a phone call scam on Friday that involves five museums and has already affected three people.

Curator Jenifer Flink reported Jonathan "Nathan" Williams to be the culprit. In his phone calls, Williams claimed to be an antiquities dealer (More)

Posted 2:05 PM 5/20/2013 by Maddie Heidenreich

COLUMBIA - The Columbia City Council is set to introduce an ordinance that would provide Columbia's public school district with $300,000 toward two new gymnasiums.

The school district would get two larger gyms with retractable seating and the city's Parks and Recreation Department would be (More)

Posted 11:24 AM 5/20/2013

JEFFERSON CITY - Monday is the start of the national "Click it or Ticket" campaign. Law enforcement agencies across the nation are working together to ensure people wear their seat belts.

Missouri law enforcement is going to be more agressive looking for people driving without their (More)

Posted 11:02 AM 5/20/2013 by Andrea Park

CALLAWAY COUNTY - The Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Missouri Department of Health responded to a semi truck overturned on Interstate 70 around 6 a.m. on Monday.

The accident occurred just past the 143 mile marker on the interstate. The truck was heading east when a tire came off (More)

Posted 10:52 AM 5/20/2013

JEFFERSON CITY - The 2013 highway construction and maintenance season is under way, and Missouri Department of Transportation crews are busy with a variety of maintenance and construction activities, including striping pavement, mowing grass and improving roadways.

To help motorists (More)

Posted 9:05 AM 5/20/2013 by Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is taking a new case on the intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers used to open meetings in an upstate New York town.

On Monday, the justices said they will review an appeals court ruling that held that the town of Greece - in (More)