Posted 3:51 PM 6/18/2013 by Julia Plant

COLUMBIA - The 13 annual Katy Trail Bike Ride stopped for the night in Columbia Tuesday. The ride is 252 miles long total, broken up over the course of a week. The bikers began in Clinton and end in St. Charles on Friday. Tuesday was the longest segment of the ride, 70 miles from Sedalia to (More)

Posted 3:51 PM 6/18/2013 by Yuqing Pan

COLUMBIA - Even with all the rain this year, the effects of last year's drought are still being felt. City staff will soon remove three dead trees in two Columbia parks.

Monday night the city council voted to remove a pin oak tree in Cosmo Park, and a black oak and black walnut tree in (More)

Posted 3:09 PM 6/18/2013 by Alex Mallin

JEFFERSON CITY - Deliberations began Tuesday in the retrial of Brandon Chase, a Columbia man charged with second degree murder.

Jury selection began at the Cole County Courthouse around 9 a.m. The last case was declared a mistrial because the jury was unable to reach a decision.

The (More)

Posted 2:38 PM 6/18/2013 by Associated Press

SPANISH LAKE (AP) - A 17-year-old suspect is now facing charges in the hit-and-run death of a St. Louis County toddler.

Charges of leaving the scene of an accident were filed Tuesday against Charles Guice. He is jailed on $50,000 bond.

Police say the teenager was arrested Monday (More)

Posted 2:34 PM 6/18/2013 by Elaina O'Connell

COLUMBIA - Starting July 1, OATS, Inc. will implement fares for the Mid-Missouri and Northwest regions. OATS has been providing free transportation to certain Missouri residents since 1971. In the past, OATS stood for "Older Adults Transportation Service," but now it is just OATS, Inc. The (More)

Posted 11:58 AM 6/18/2013 by Associated Press

ST. LOUIS - Forensic work on remains found in a St. Louis cemetery is aimed at identifying a little girl murdered two decades ago.

Volunteer crews using burial records found the child's remains Monday in the overgrown Washington Park Cemetery, near (More)

Posted 5:38 PM 6/15/2013 by Christine Roto

JEFFERSON CITY - People gathered at the state Capitol Saturday to celebrate Governor Jay Nixon's proclamation of June 17th as Missing and Unidentified Persons Awareness Day and remember those who are missing.

Families of missing persons met to tell their personal stories and group (More)

Posted 11:14 AM 6/18/2013 by KOMU Staff

MORGAN COUNTY - Deputies from the Morgan County Sheriff's Office, the Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Missouri Department of Conservation responded to a call to the Ivy Bend area of Morgan County on Monday.

The call was from an earlier incident involving a subject by the name of (More)

Posted 10:35 AM 6/18/2013 by Brendan Cullerton

COLUMBIA - Two wild boars were spotted on the Katy Trail in Rocheport Monday, but the Missouri Department of Conservation told KOMU Tuesday that it killed the boars.

Conservation Agent Sean Ernst said the boars were charging at people on the trail and tore up the yard of a local (More)

Posted 4:12 PM 6/18/2013 by Associated Press

ROCHEPORT (AP) - A pair of wild boars that were menacing hikers on the Katy Trail in central Missouri have been shot and killed.

KOMU-TV reports the boars were spotted Monday on the trail in Rocheport. An agent with the Department of Conservation said the animals were charging at people (More)

Posted 10:06 AM 6/18/2013 by Tom Casselman

JEFFERSON CITY - Jury selection in the Brandon Chase murder and robbery retrial began Tuesday morning.

Chase is being retried for first degree robbery and second degree murder. A trial in March was deemed a mistrial after a jury was unable to reach a verdict. 

Chase allegedly murdered Keith Moseley in April of 2012. Authorities said the incident started as an early morning robbery, but turned violent.

Posted 9:27 AM 6/18/2013 by Maddie Heidenreich

COLUMBIA - More details are emerging after gun shots rang out in downtown Columbia over the weekend.

The usual Friday night atmosphere changed when shots rang out on the streets of Columbia at 12:30 a.m.

"I never thought downtown would be that dangerous," said Columbia resident (More)

Posted 9:18 AM 6/18/2013 by Associated Press

SPANISH LAKE - A 17-year-old suspect is in custody in the hit-and-run death of a St. Louis County toddler.

Police say the teenager was arrested Monday, hours after investigators found the 2013 Dodge Durango that struck and killed 2-year-old Darrion Griffin. The child was struck Sunday (More)