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A decaying body and reused casket led Attorney General Jay Nixon to take action Friday to shut down a Columbia funeral home.

A Jefferson City man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to possessing with the intent to distribute anabolic steroids and faces a possible five-year prison sentence.

Investigators with the Major Crimes Unit arrested both Horace Johnson and Keyonda Lumpkin, the parents of 2-year old Cortez Johnson.

A Columbia man has been charged in federal count with distributing cocaine in Greene County.

More than 100 Columbians gathered Tuesday in the Friends Room of the Columbia Public Library to view an educational film on global warming and hear from a panel on the topic.

In her time, Annie Fisher was a household name among the Columbia elite. Fisher, a black woman who left school in the third grade to work in the fields, was born in 1867, shortly after slavery ended in th ...

Lightning strikes from intense thunderstorms Tuesday morning contributed to numerous power outages across Columbia while heavy rains flooded streets and made for a difficult morning commute.

The Treasure Hunters Roadshow appraises and possibly purchases items that people bring in.

' The shooter prepares his gun for his next shot. He checks to make sure it's clean, and gets his gun ready to load.

' The Columbia Police Department apologized Tuesday for a July 16 training exercise at Planned Parenthood that alarmed area neighbors.

' Construction around Range Line Street has become a necessary inconvenience to northside Columbia residents, as the construction that began in early April is causing traffic delays.

Columbia Fire Department Lt. Brian Tilman, left, fire Battalion Chief Gary Warren, center, and police officer Allen Bell investigate a fire this morning at the Rustic Meadows mobile home park in north Columbia.

Of the 17 members chosen by City Manager Bill Watkins to serve on the committee that will help select Columbia's new police chief, one is drawing attention for his criminal record.

It was more than three years ago that University of Missouri research professor Jeong Im was stabbed multiple times and found in the trunk of his burning car in a parking garage on the MU campus.

A Columbia man is recovering after three men ransacked his west Columbia apartment and struck him in the head twice with a handgun, Columbia police said.

The University of Missouri-Columbia Police Department has identified the 23-year-old Columbia woman who climbed the MU power plant smokestack and charged her with first-degree trespassing.

A barbecue grill fire caused minor damage to an apartment building yesterday after residents failed to extinguish the flames the night before.

Columbia Fire Fighters were called at 1:44 p.m. Saturday to 4501 Paris Road for a report of a City of Columbia garbage truck on fire.

One of two suspects in the March 4 home invasion and robbery at a West Broadway apartment complex surrendered yesterday to Columbia police.

A suspect in a shooting at a Petro-Mart gas station in May, was arrested Friday.