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Southern Boone’s new head football coach is a familiar name in central Missouri
The new head football coach at fast-growing Southern Boone high school in Ashland brings more than a decade of coaching and teaching experience. The Southern Boone R-1 school district high school stadium and track in...
(LISTEN): Columbia’s new Office of Violence Prevention administrator appealing for unity to stop violence
Columbia’s first-ever Office of Violence Prevention administrator is condemning this weekend’s violence. D’Markus Thomas-Brown is Columbia’s first Office of Violence Prevention administrator (2025 photo courtesy of Columbia’s Sydney Olsen) Five people were shot in three separate...
2025 Southeastern Conference media days to take place in Atlanta in July
The 2025 college football season is four-and-a-half months away, and the Southeastern Conference media days will be held in July. Mizzou football coach Eliah Drinkwitz briefs reporters during spring ball in March 2025 (photo courtesy...
(LISTEN): Missouri’s governor and Columbia’s economic development director are ecstatic about EquipmentShare’s $100-million new headquarters
Columbia’s new economic development director is praising EquipmentShare’s $100-million new headquarters near I-70’s Lake of the Woods exit. EquipmentShare co-owners Jabbok and Willy Schlacks joined Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe for the recent ribbon-cutting ceremony (April...
(LISTEN): MoDOT has spent $8-million in 2025 repairing potholes
State transportation officials say mid-Missouri’s rough winter in January and February has caused numerous potholes. Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) crews repair potholes in mid-Missouri (file photo courtesy of MoDOT’s flickr page) We saw several snow...
Schnucks to close all of its grocery stores on Easter Sunday; they have four mid-Missouri stores
Employees at mid-Missouri’s four Schnucks stores will be off on Easter Sunday. Columbia’s Schnucks store on Clark lane opened in 2022 (file photo courtesy of Schnucks spokesman Paul Simon) St. Louis-based Schnucks says stores will be...
Rail bridge over I-70 near mid-Missouri’s Kingdom City to be removed this week
Work is scheduled to begin Monday evening and continue all week on removing that private rail bridge that crosses I-70 just west of Kingdom City. The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) plans to remove this...
(LISTEN): Boone Health’s president says they want to ensure that residents who want local health care can access in-network providers
Columbia-based Boone Health continues to accept all commercial Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurance plans. Boone Hospital Center is near Broadway in Columbia (2024 file photo courtesy of Boone Hospital’s Christian Basi) Anthem and Columbia-based MU Health...
(LISTEN): Saturday’s bowling for autism event in Columbia was the largest since the COVID pandemic
Organizers of Saturday’s 22nd annual bowling for autism event at Columbia’s AMF Town and Country lanes say it raised between 30,000and30,000 and 30,000and35,000 for Easterseals Midwest. Every lane at Columbia’s AMF Town and Country lanes...
(LISTEN): Volunteers to clean up fields in tornado-damaged Pilot Grove on Saturday
Residents from across mid-Missouri’s Cooper County are in Pilot Grove on this Saturday morning, getting their gloves and work boots ready for today’s cleanup the in tornado-damaged town. At least ten homes were destroyed or...